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Daily Beast: “Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account …
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This is a network analysis tool for exploring relationships between people, places, and events captured in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee. LLMs were used to extract these relationships from the raw document text, and as such, it is likely that there are some errors and omissions. Click on a relationship in …
WSJ vai MSN: “Remember when America Online CDs carpeted America and “You’ve got mail” felt like the future? The internet did transform work—but not the way 1998 thought. The surprises weren’t just CEOs in hoodies and legions of coders. They were barbers with booking links, nurses on telehealth, and delivery jobs by the hundreds of …
Follow up to The DOGE Has Arrived and The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers – see Reuters: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which …
Jeffrey Edmunds, TEDxPSU [YouTube] – “With the shift from books to ebooks, libraries have lost ownership of their collections. Knowledge is being privatized and monetized by multinational corporations. To correct this trend, we need to think of knowledge, especially the knowledge collectively funded and created at universities like Penn State, not as a private commodity, …
PHYS.org: “Charles Darwin’s Address Book is a small brown leather notebook, with “VISITS” and “ADDRESSES” printed on its spine and index-letter tabs in alternating black and red. The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse …
Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) – Tanya Thomas raises the argument that we are training a generation of lawyers who rarely engage with the raw materials of their profession, and are increasingly consuming only the processed, pre-digested, AI-synthesized versions. Students are …
Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled? September 2025. Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains insufficiently evaluated. Developing long-context benchmarks that capture realistic, high-stakes tasks remains a significant challenge in the field, as most …
EFF: “It’s no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, law enforcement officers—including U.S. Border Patrol agents—were quietly watching those same streets through different lenses: Flock Safety automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that tracked every passing car. Through an …
MakeUseOf: “Chrome is fast, capable, and one of the best browser options when convenience matters. However, it’s not the most privacy-focused browser, and relying on Chrome alone isn’t enough for online privacy. So, I started using some extensions as part of my Chrome privacy setup. Each one addresses a different privacy concern, ensuring I stay …
Via LLRX – Drone Resources 2025 – This article by Marcus P. Zillman includes links to a range of guides for drone pilots interested in photography, medicine, civil security, real estate, e-commerce, as well as product reviews and buying guides.
