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The New Yorker [no paywall] – “…Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs…Putin and Trump are both, in fact, fascists. And their use of the word, though meant to confuse, …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “”The man behind the most influential progressive account on social media starts his days at 6 a.m. in front of three TV and computer screens, scanning video feeds for the gaffes and confrontations that can turn into viral gold.Acyn Torabi isn’t a Democratic star like former president Barack Obama or a …
FT.com [no paywall]: “Much ink has been spilt and many keys pressed to figure out whether AI is a bubble. Just last month, OpenAI’s ersatz Ghibli took X by storm. A “big net win for society”, as head honcho Sam Altman described it, and for the “democratisation of creating content” which Hayao Miyazaki and other …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform. Experts warn the problem is worsening as more people rely on …
PHYS.org: “The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of “harm” to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ecologically sensitive environments. The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the definition of “harm” in the …
Committee to Protect Journalists: “A stated policy goal of the Trump administration is to significantly change U.S. travel and immigration policies. Foreign nationals whose countries do not meet U.S. vetting standards may be barred entry. Journalists will not be exempt and should anticipate potential restrictions or questioning when traveling to or from the United States. …
The Verge: “The past decade of politics, to put it bluntly, has been batshit. The past week of politics has been batshit. Heck, the past week of everything in the world that has anything to do with political decisions — diplomacy, trade, manufacturing, having a 401k, owning a car or a computer or a phone …
The New York Times no paywall – “Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.88 trillion company and alter its power over the internet. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District …
Just Security – Preserving federal data has long been essential to transparency, accountability, and evidence-based policymaking in the United States. While every administration faces its share of data management challenges, the sheer volume of lost or altered information under the Trump administration suggests these challenges have now reached an unprecedented level. In the months since …
Fair Tax Foundation: “This report, The Silicon Six and their enduring global tax gap, analyses the long- run effective tax rate of the Silicon Six (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix) over the past decade. It is a variation of analysis we last undertook in 2019 and 2021. These businesses dominate digital infrastructure and …
Follow up to Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them – Robert H. Hubbell: “Five law professors come to the aid of law firms targeted by Trump. Five preeminent law professors from Boston University, Cornell, and Georgetown, all of whom are experts in ethics, have filed a brief in support of …
Deepseek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool For Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions “Some in the industry have claimed that the U.S. holds an 18-month AI lead, but that obfuscates reality—it’s closer to three months.” – U.S. AI Executive Read the full report here. DeepSeek represents a profound threat to our nation’s …
