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Wall Street Journal Gift Article [why did this take so long to publish?] A WSJ analysis of thousands of posts found that the president uses the social-media platform to spread conspiracy theories and attack his adversaries. Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members …
The Guardian: “…In the early days of the Data Rescue Project, there was a mad dash to save data from any agency they thought Trump or Doge would target next. Volunteers would download every dataset from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) webpages as backup copies …
LawSites: “The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, …
Type your name [or any name] and see it spelled out in stunning Landsat satellite imagery. The satellite images used in this interactive are part of Landsat’s extensive record, spanning more than 50 years. The Landsat series of Earth-observing satellites are jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
404 Media – Palantir is making ICE faster. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Palantir systems now means agency officials effectively have a list of 20 million people readily accessible on their iPhones, increasing the speed at which ICE can find houses to raid and people to arrest, according to comments made by a …
Press Gazette: “Round-up of the main cases where AI use in journalism has gone wrong. AI is being widely used in journalism and can lead to reputation-killing scandals and mistakes if not monitored closely. Here Press Gazette rounds up some of the main examples of where AI has gone wrong. Most recently, The New York …
Project Saltbox: “Federal records show the agency is purchasing expanded access to a private biometric database built largely through sheriff partnerships. The Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement locations across the country within 30 days of finalizing a no-bid contract with the Massachusetts technology company …
Sources & Confessions. Every observation on this page came from your own browser, in the first milliseconds after you arrived. The words were written by a human. A few honest footnotes follow. TAKEN Your location – ip-api.com · Free tier · CC-BY-SA – Your IP address arrives in the header of every request your device makes. We …
Ross, Denice W. and Marcum, Christopher Steven. 2026. Federal Data Field Guide. Version 1. University of California, Berkeley. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/J2P043 The Federal Data Field Guide is a free resource that explains how data collection works across the federal government. The guide addresses a gap: many people want to use federal data but lack basic literacy about …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 9, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
The Guardian – “The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are five ways it’s hurting Americans This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come. When we think of what governments do, we think of everything …
Indicator: “Decoherence Media, a non-profit investigative outlet, recently published the Epstein Photo Network, which it described as “the highest-quality publicly available facial recognition interface to the Epstein Library, with the most verified names and the fewest false positives.” Along with creating the freely-accessible site, Decoherence’s announcement included the methodology and code used to build the …
