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Prefacing this update to include, not referenced in this article, job applicants for federal employment are now asked to answer questions to determine loyalty to Trump and willingness to execute Trump’s Executive Orders. Via NextGov/FCW: “The Office of Personnel Management released new classification and qualification standards for technology employees on Monday that make it easier …
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This white paper explores how education can respond to the rise of AI argues that technology should enhance, not undermine, core skills — such as critical thinking — and offers practical guidance for integrating AI into teaching while fostering meaningful, human-centered learning. Tom Chatfield’s AI and the Future of Pedagogy cautions against letting AI erode …
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Google Blog: “The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience, bringing you a faster, more integrated way to get help from AI right on your desktop. Share your window for instant context – With our new native desktop experience, you can share anything on your screen with Gemini to get help with …
The Atlantic Gift Article: What happens when AI can hack everything? – “For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure. …
Kottke: “For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Phish, Fugazi, and so many more. With the help of archivists, the entire collection is making …
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 …
Below the Fold: “I used New York Times API/archive data to build an explorer of the paper’s coverage over the last 25+ years: 1.5 billion words across 2.2 million articles by about 26,000 reporters. You can use it to look at: which reporters covered which beats who shared bylines with whom article frequency and length …
Phiresky: “Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do – collect and share as many books as possible. One shadow library, Anna’s …
