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Ars Technica: AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says. On Thursday, a digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, published an expansive investigation into AI-generated police reports that the group alleged are, by design, nearly impossible to audit and could make it easier for cops to lie under oath. Axon’s Draft One …
How to Geek: “I’m fully immersed in the Apple ecosystem and use a Mac, an iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch every day. While these devices perform well on their own, their strengths are amplified when used in tandem. From allowing me to unlock my Mac with an Apple Watch to turn my iPad into a …
Today we launched a website to track how much Trump plays golf. TrumpGolfTrack.com This site provides URLs, titles and links to news stories that track when and where Trump play golf during the course of his term in office as the 47th President of the United States. This tool is made with publicly available information …
Wired: “The Department of Homeland Security is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter, WIRED has learned. Threat bulletins issued during last month’s “No Kings” protests warn that the US government’s aggressive immigration raids are almost …
Muck Rack: “In 2000, many Americans lived in a community with journalists — people whose job it was to cover school board decisions, announce small business openings and closures, root out corruption at city hall, warn commuters about road work and trumpet the exploits of the high school teams. Today, most of those journalists are …
“The shortlist for the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition has been unveiled. From a blood moon hanging over Shanghai to a family portrait of the Solar System and a close-up of a comet’s streaming tails, distant astronomical wonders are photographed in magnificent detail for all to admire. Now in its 17th year, …
Netcraft: “When Netcraft researchers asked a large language model where to log into various well-known platforms, the results were surprisingly dangerous. Of 131 hostnames provided in response to natural language queries for 50 brands, 34% of them were not controlled by the brands at all. Two-thirds of the time, the model returned the correct URL. …
Tabb Forum: “Forget AI world domination, for the moment – the real story is how it’s making us better. But are you worried AI will make a “tool” out of you? Andrew Dunn, Practice Lead at Streets Consulting, cuts through the hype, exploring AI’s immense power alongside its limitations, and looks at why human intelligence …
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has made available hundreds of historic volumes of U.S. Supreme Court cases dating from 1790–1991. These cases are published officially in the United States Reports and are now available on GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. United States …
Gallup: “As artificial intelligence transitions from abstraction to reality, U.S. adults are evenly divided on its implications for humankind. Forty-nine percent say AI is “just the latest in a long line of technological advancements that humans will learn to use to improve their lives and society,” while an equal proportion say it is “very different …
Brainyacts: “What we know so far: Some users got access to a new tool called “Study together”, which acts differently and guides you through the study process step by step. penAI is preparing a new feature called “Study together”, which has started appearing in system hints for some users within ChatGPT’s main prompt, alongside familiar …
Artificial Lawyer: “A major survey by Axiom of 600+ senior inhouse lawyers across eight countries on AI adoption has found that 66% of them are using ‘raw’ LLM chatbots such as ChatGPT, and only between 7% and 17% are using bona fide legal AI tools made for this sector. There is something terrible about this, …
