Category «Knowledge Management»

GSA Releases Elimination, Optimization and Automation Handbook

Today, the U.S. General Services Administration released the Elimination, Optimization and Automation (EOA) Handbook, a practical guide for federal leaders seeking to improve operational efficiency, strengthen mission delivery, and reduce administrative burden through process improvement and emerging technologies. The handbook compiles lessons learned and best practices from implementation efforts launched during the first Trump Administration. …

Subjects: Censorship, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

How AI Agents Reshape Knowledge Work

Perplexity – Frontier AI systems are closing the gap between model intelligence and real-world utility. New models, compute architectures, and orchestration patterns are enabling these systems to accomplish tasks deemed impossible just a few months ago. This rapid innovation has proved a boon to AI users by magnifying their leverage and agency. Yet it has …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country’s identity

AP: “As the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country as exceptional, a new poll finds. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research highlights many Americans’ feeling of unease over the future of its representative government — particularly among young people. It presents …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Data the CIA World Factbook Left Orphaned

Follow up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool – Manuel Longo: “When the CIA World Factbook faded as a free, machine-readable source, a swath of public-interest country data was effectively orphaned. Bamwor rebuilds it as open data: 261 countries and 5.2M cities, in four languages, as CSV/JSON with a permanent …

Subjects: Censorship, Defense, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

My Students Can’t Read

The Chronical of Higher Education- no paywall: “The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse…Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Passive AI use at work increases feelings of work meaninglessness

Lee, E.H., Yin, Y., Jia, N. et al. Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and meaning while active collaboration mitigates the effects. Sci Rep 16, 13583 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42312-6 “Artificial intelligence (AI) promises major productivity gains, but it also raises fundamental questions about how technology can reshape people’s relationship to their work. Historical debates …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9

Via LLRX – Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – This article is the ninth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health, and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Google Pinpoint Explained

Wondertools: “Google’s Pinpoint is now open to everyone. It’s a surprisingly powerful free tool for making sense of giant piles of digital stuff. (Before June 3, it was restricted to journalists and academics). Read on to learn more about creative ways to use Pinpoint; its new AI features and their limitations; and how Pinpoint differs …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

The Pudding: An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school, here’s a refresher: similes compare a shared quality of two things, often using “like” or “as.” I pulled every simile in the form “as ___ as ___” from …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

404 Media: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents obtained by 404 Media through our ongoing lawsuit against ICE. In September, we sued ICE for documents related to its $2 million contract …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI as Social Technology

Henry Farrell and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, AI as Social Technology, 26-5 Knight First Amend. Inst. (May 11, 2026), https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology [https://perma.cc/25BX-GUQL]. “…Authors of speculative non-fiction about AGI are less inhibited, offering sweeping visions of how information technology will completely transform society, economy, politics, or all three. They treat AGI less as a technology than as Andreessen …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors

Via LLRX Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors – Damien Charlotin tracks the claims made by some LegalTech vendors in the past and today with respect to how they handle hallucinations from their offerings. Charlotin is relying on internet-based written marketing material, trying to highlight the changes in how these products are and …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

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