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Save Our Signs Update

The Save Our Signs team has a number of new updates we wanted to share with you: “Over 3,000 new photos published in the SOS Archive, thanks to a new workflow and updated backend database.” “Digging Into the Leaked NPS Data,” a new story map that illuminates what NPS employees have flagged in response to …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year

Bleeping Computer: “U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. The figure continues the year-over-year record trend as it is up 26% compared to 2024, when Americans lost $16.6 billion to cybercrime. A …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, ID Theft, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here

The Atlantic Gift Article – America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart. “…The war has exposed the contradictions of the Trump administration’s geopolitical worldview. Under this president, the United States has rewarded Russia, ignored China, punished Europe, and abandoned its Asian allies and partners to an economic crisis that it helped set …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE

404  Media: “Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.. Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) police are performing dozens of license plate lookups on Flock cameras for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to public records that show details of the searches. The practice highlights how ICE, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation

Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

Platformer – The company says it has built its most dangerous model yet. “Can its coalition of internet companies fix the internet before others catch up? Two weeks ago, Anthropic accidentally leaked the existence of what the company said was its most powerful artificial intelligence to date: a new model, known as Claude Mythos Preview, …

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

Trump’s Fundamental Misunderstanding in Iran

The Atlantic (Gift Article): Trump’s Fundamental Misunderstanding in Iran. “One of the U.S. government’s recurring mistakes about Iran has been to conflate the country’s national interests with regime interests. The two are in many ways opposites. What benefits the Iranian people—global economic reintegration, diplomatic recognition, investment, normalcy—threatens a regime that operates an extensive mafia and …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Defense, Economy, Free Speech, Legal Research

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

The New York Times: “The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts…A recent analysis of AI Overviews found that they were accurate approximately nine out of 10 times. But with Google processing more than five trillion searches a year, this means that it …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

Follow up to What is BrowserGate? See also Bleeping Computer: “A new report dubbed “BrowserGate” warns that Microsoft’s LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors’ browsers for installed extensions and collect device data. BleepingComputer has independently confirmed part of these claims through our own testing, during which we observed a …

Subjects: E-Records, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

I archive every webpage the moment I bookmark it and I’ve never lost a saved link since

MakeUseOf: “Have you ever clicked a saved link and landed on a page not found error message? You bookmarked that article months ago because it had exactly the information you needed, and now it is gone. The site was restructured, the author deleted it, or the whole domain expired. This is called link rot, and …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

USA Trade Online

Welcome to the new version of USA Trade Online – A new way to envision International Trade: “The official source of U.S. merchandise trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau. You can create customized reports. Search by HS and NAICS, geography, time, US trade region (district, state, or port), and measurement values. Reports can be saved …

Subjects: E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality

Just Security: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” posted President Donald Trump on Easter Sunday. In case one thought that was an impulsive utterance, it’s notable that the president in apparently prepared remarks a few days earlier said, “If …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research