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Calishat: “I made a new site because there’s a lot of information warfare going on and I wasn’t aware of any place to find content from *only* FCC-licensed television stations. So presenting Local News TV – browse 660 US television stations by state and metro area and view recent broadcast content via YouTube. Super simple …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 28, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
The Conversation: “People on TikTok tend to follow accounts that align with their own political beliefs, meaning the platform is creating political echo chambers among its users. These findings, from a study my collaborators, Yanlin Li and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, and I published in the academic journal New Media & Society, show that people …
Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (25) e2502053122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502053122 (2025). “We use crowd-sourced assessments from X’s Community Notes program to examine whether there are partisan differences in the sharing of misleading information. Unlike previous studies, misleadingness here is determined by agreement …
Washington Post gift article: “A Washington Post review found that in at least seven major departments or agencies, DOGE secured the power to view records that experts say could benefit Musk’s businesses for years. For months, Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said …
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is transforming legal firms by enhancing legal text analysis, legal document management, and judicial decision prediction. Conventional rule-based and statistical methods lack the contextual understanding, and scalability required for processing complex legal texts, while deep learning and transformer-based models have revolutionized advanced Legal Artificial Intelligence (LegalAI) technologies. Large Language Models (LLMs), …
Google Doc – Includes phone numbers/addresses/emails/Facebook as appropriate: for Senators, House, Cabinet/SCOTUS/Heritage Foundation, Major News Agencies and those in States [alphabetical order], Military Branches, and a timely poem by a 6th grade student.
YouTube – Ending due process for some sets the stage for camps at home and abroad: “The Supreme Court uses the shadow docket to stick a knife into due process. Read the post that inspired this episode. In this week’s episode, Andrea Pitzer looks at Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, which permits the government to send …
Via LLRX – We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca of The Markup and CalMatters …
Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, June 30, 2025: This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Eight highlights from …
Via LLRX – What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions – When presidents have tried to make big changes through executive orders, they have often hit a roadblock: A single federal judge, whether located in Seattle or Miami or anywhere in between, could stop these policies across the entire …
The Register: “Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos. The vendor surveyed 3,400 IT pros in early 2025 about their experiences over the last year and found 49 percent paid ransoms on their …
