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Abigail Haddad: “Want to search public comments from regulations.gov and search across multiple dockets? Eugene Kim put something together, and it’s cool. đź”— Open it in colab and run it there: https://colab.research.google.com/github/civictechdc/spicy-regs/blob/main/notebooks/search_capabilities.ipynb#scrollTo=QSAA6t-RyqDH Â This is made possible by Mirrulations, the project from Ben Coleman at Moravian University that pulls in all of the comments from regulations.gov …
The Developer: “The United States government has, for years, maintained a legal mechanism that allows it to scoop up your emails, your texts, and your phone calls without asking a judge for permission. In a vote on Friday, after a week of theatrical congressional hand-wringing, lawmakers chose to keep it. If you missed the debate, …
Abigail Haddad [This is experimental — please do not rely on this.] – Which government contracts have gotten terminated in the last year+? I pulled bulk data from USASpending to look at this. The red banner means this data set is brand-new to me and there are probably twelve different nuances I’m missing–which I would …
Last month, President Trump issued a second executive order aiming to single-handedly rewrite federal election rules. The Brennan Center and other groups are challenging the action in court, as the Constitution gives only the states and Congress the power to regulate elections. Among other things, the order attempts to require the U.S. Postal Service — …
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E-Discovery LLC: “Hallucinations” by West and Lexis AI? A Cautionary Study and Cautions About the Study, Michael Berman – This post is a follow up to “Hallucinations” by West’s CoCounsel? (Apr. 7, 2026). In U.S. v. Farris, __ F. 4th __, 2026 WL 915082, at *1 (6th Cir. Apr. 3, 2026) (per curiam), the court found errors in …
“Your photos reveal a lot of private information. In this experiment, we use the Google Vision API to see how much can be inferred about you from a single photo. See what they see…”
“Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community” advocates for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to take proactive and pragmatic steps to ensure that digital collections content, especially content …
Washington Post [no paywall] Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight. Members of the U.S. DOGE Service spoke regularly over Signal, the encrypted chat service that can auto-delete messages. They were informally recruited by people they knew. And …
Ars Technica: “Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs …
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice. Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor. Meta’s Superintelligence Labs launched its first generative AI model, called Muse Spark, earlier this week. …
Reuters – “A U.S. historians’ organization and a government transparency group are suing President Donald Trump to force his administration to comply with a presidential records ‌preservation law after the U.S. Justice Department declared the measure unconstitutional. The American Historical Association and ‌American Oversight on Monday asked the federal court in Washington to declare the …
