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“The Pentagon’s version of Claude could not be used to facilitate the mass surveillance of Americans, nor could it be used in fully autonomous weaponry—situations where computers, rather than humans, make the final decision about whom to kill. According to a source familiar with this week’s meeting, Hegseth made clear that if Anthropic did not …
PC Mag: “Four data brokers have made their opt-out pages easier for internet users to find after a US senator’s investigation found the pages had been hidden from search engines. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) made the announcement on Friday after she pressured data brokers to make changes. “Hiding or burying opt-out options for data collection” …
The case is United States Postal Service v. Konan, U.S., No. 24-351, decided on 2/24/26. This Will Hold – “Yes, SCOTUS expanded USPS immunity from lawsuits over lost or misdelivered mail even if the nondelivery is alleged to be INTENTIONAL. Now layer that ruling with USPS’s updated postmark procedures. Ballots are not necessarily postmarked the …
Artificial Lawyer – February 27, 2026, lawyer Zack Shapiro published an article on X titled: ‘The Claude-Native Law Firm’ [also available on LinkeIn here] It has been viewed over 7 million times and primarily covers the fact that at his small US firm he used the ‘Skills’ facility in Anthropic’s Claude. The reaction was incredible. …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 28, 2026 – 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 increasingly …
Follow up to AI-Powered Epstein Files Research Databases and Data Explorers – See also Epstein emails Published on 2025-11-23 via Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) Type: Leak, Limited Distribution Download Size: 2.50 GB Download: Link Download 2: Link External Collaboration Link: Link “Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein …
Terrorism Research Center: “Faculty members from the Department of Sociology & Criminology, Kayla Allison and Jeff Gruenewald recently published an article titled “An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB)” in the journal of >Homicide Studies. Housed in the University of Arkansas’ Terrorism Research Center (TRC), the BHDB provides students, researchers, and other …
404 Media: “It might look like something from the early days of the internet, with its aggressively grey color scheme and rectangles nested inside rectangles, but FPDS.gov is one of the most important resources for keeping tabs on what powerful spying tools U.S. government agencies are buying. It includes everything from phone hacking technology, to …
“If You’re Very Clever, No One Knows You’ve Used It”: The Social Dynamics of Developing Generative AI Literacy in the Workplace Generative AI (GenAI) tools are rapidly transforming knowledge work, making AI literacy a critical priority for organizations. However, research on AI literacy lacks empirical insight into how knowledge workers’ beliefs around GenAI literacy are …
Project Salt Box: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles staged at a Baltimore parking garage quietly relocated to at least two other downtown locations Wednesday, hours before a protest organized to draw attention to the staging site was set to begin. Beginning around 3:00 P.M. and continuing at least until 8:30 P.M., eyewitnesses reported to Project …
Washington Post Gift Article – “Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the …
Washington Post: “A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses. The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the IRS shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE …
