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ProPublica: “When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television. He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said, …
PEN America: “In response to the alarming rise of abuse and threats targeting journalists, PEN America and the Coalition Against Online Violence have released a groundbreaking guide, Best Practices for News Organizations: How to Protect and Support Journalists Harassed Online, to empower industry leaders to protect their people amidst an escalating crackdown on the free …
TechCrunch: “Legal AI might not sound like the sexiest category in Silicon Valley, but Harvey‘s CEO Winston Weinberg has captured the attention of virtually every top-tier investor in the Valley. The company’s cap table reads like a who’s who of venture capital: the OpenAI Startup Fund (its first institutional investor), Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Elad …
Overview available free – survey requires subscription: “The efficiency and value of AI Proof of Concept (PoCs) projects and pilots are the subject of heated debate, fuelled by reports claiming that only a handful make it to production. This has been interpreted as proof that generative AI is failing to scale, that stalled PoCs mean …
Washington Post via MSN: “The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys since the start of the Trump administration and has backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, with the process snarled by a lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays and hiring freezes, according to people familiar with hirings in the department. Last year, …
@osintambition held a free online #osint conference with dozens of speakers and thousands of participants. If you missed anything, you can watch videos of the talks in this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist From Program One “Investigators can’t afford to spend endless hours chasing a single target. Classic OSINT skills are essential, but they eventually hit limits of …
The New York Times Gift Article – “Epstein Files Live Updates: Trump Named in Emails Released by Democrats and Republicans. Messages in which Jeffrey Epstein discussed President Trump were among 20,000 documents posted online. Mr. Trump blamed Democrats as the White House rushed to block further revelations. The mocking and accusatory voice of Jeffrey Epstein …
Washington Post – Gift Article: “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, according to its maker, OpenAI, but their conversations with the artificial intelligence chatbot are private. Unlike for social media apps, there is little way for those outside the company to know how people use the service — or what ChatGPT says …
Semefor: “The largest pre-publication repository of scientific studies announced it would no longer accept computer science review papers because of the rise of fake AI-generated content. arXiv is a preprint site, which accepts papers before peer review with minimal moderation. It allows wider access to research that is usually behind paywalls, and vastly speeds up …
ABA – Stepehen Embry: “I often hear from lawyers and legal professionals from small or solo firms about cost concerns when it comes to the use of AI, particularly for legal research. They worry about being left behind and being placed at a competitive disadvantage compared to large firms with sophisticated tools. They are literally …
Ars Technica – I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard. “Amid what one judge called an “epidemic” of fake AI-generated case citations bogging down courts, some common excuses are emerging from lawyers hoping to dodge the most severe sanctions for filings deemed misleading. Using a database …
“Byte? Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, its 277 issues chronicled …
