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What are DuckDuckgo bangs? Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for !w filter bubble will take you directly to Wikipedia. Remember, though, because your …
Android Headlines: “A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit. …
The Guardian: “A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds that TikTok’s algorithm systematically prioritized pro-Republican content in three states leading up to the 2024 US elections. Researchers created hundreds of dummy accounts and conditioned them to mimic real users’ behavior by watching a set of videos either aligned with the US Democratic or …
Mother Jones: A new report exposes the marketing of AR-15s and other firearms to America’s youth…”The gun industry has favored aggressive marketing for more than a decade, as companies realized that vast profits could be made from the increasingly popular AR-15-style rifles. One early Daniel Defense ad suggested civilian buyers could be just like US …
Laskowski, Casandra and Buckingham, Richard and Marks, Taryn and Miguel-Stearns, Teresa M. and Niedringhaus, Kristina L. and Parsons, Patrick and Pike, George H., Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement (October 13, 2025). Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 25-31, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-32, Stanford Public …
Ed Zitron: “…AI Revenues Are Pathetic and Circular, With OpenAI Representing 71%+ Of Microsoft’s AI Run Rate and Anthropic 80% of Amazon’s. While Meta and Google refuse to actually explain their AI returns, Microsoft revealed that it had $37 billion in AI revenue run rate — $3.08 billion a month or so — and Amazon …
ChatGPTisEatingtheWorld: “I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: “We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL …
The Verge: “Here’s how you can find out, and get that storage back if you need it. Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser’s system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained …
“Every “page” you land on is an image. Click on anything in the image and you will get a new image exploring that thing in more depth. What you see contains no HTML, no code, no specific links or fields. The entire web is just generated pixels on your screen. [Note – there is a …
PCMag – “Those cameras you keep seeing? They’re run by Flock Safety, a private company that tracks more than just your car’s plates. Did you know that all those cameras you see on street corners in your neighborhood aren’t owned (and in some cases, aren’t monitored) by your local government or police department? Instead, the …
Google Blog: “As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, we are announcing a unique collaboration between the White House Task Force 250, the National Archives, the National Park Service and Google Arts & Culture. This milestone is a moment to reflect on the stories that define America’s unique history and the shared …
Wired [no paywall]: “Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit within the General Services Administration (GSA). There, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service. Gregory Barbaccia, the federal chief information officer and …
