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The Independent: “Thousands of previously secret files on alleged police misconduct in California have now been made public through a searchable database. The Police Records Access Project database, painstakingly assembled over seven years by journalists, activists, and data scientists, went public on Monday with documents from more than 400 government agencies across the Golden State. …
Claire Berlinski – If data is the new oil, Elon Musk is the new Persian Gulf – “The list below is part of the second installment of The MechaHitler Reich. In a better world, it would be a sidebar to that newsletter—something you could glance at while you were reading it. But alas, this is not …
Drop Site: “Meta has scraped data from the most-trafficked domains on the internet —including news organizations, education platforms, niche forums, personal blogs, and even revenge porn sites—to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a leaked list obtained by Drop Site News. By scraping data from roughly 6 million unique websites, including 100,000 of the …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 9, 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 …
Google DeepMind: “New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring. Every day, satellites capture information-rich images and measurements, providing scientists and experts with a nearly real-time view of our planet. While this data has been incredibly impactful, its complexity, multimodality and refresh …
KQED – “In a suburban backyard outside of Sacramento, I open the door to a giant shed, step inside and get smacked in the face by floor-to-ceiling shelves of music history. VHS tapes. Cassette tapes. Reel-to-reels. DATs. Other formats I don’t recognize, and can’t pronounce. Nearly 20,000 of them, all filled with live shows, demo …
Van Doren, B. M and Horton, K. G. Year/s of forecast migration map image. BirdCast, migration forecast map; generation date and time (most easily accessible from data on the image). Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Colorado State University. birdcast.info. Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every …
TechSpot: “OpenAI estimates that nearly 90,000 government employees at the federal, state, and local levels have started using its chatbot since 2024. A new deal sharply expands that access, offering the federal workforce new tools believed to have the potential to make government operations more efficient and responsive in areas ranging from budget analysis to …
Washington Post – no paywall or MSN: “Instagram has a new feature to share your precise real-time location with friends. There are many, many reasons you should think twice before enabling it. I’ll show you the settings you need to know. Starting this week in the U.S., Instagram rolled out a new map view, which …
“The Bluesky Dictionary is tracking every single word used on the social media service. As of this writing, almost 40% of the dictionary has been covered, including recent additions like “boneshakers”, “microscale”, and “striations”.
Ars Technica: “OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for any copyright-infringing outputs that could become the most damning evidence in the hotly watched case. In a joint letter (PDF) Thursday, both sides …
How to Geek: “Until recently, the Internet Archive has been my go-to wayback machine for accessing websites, documents, and files that are no longer available on their original sites. But lately, I’ve discovered some other sites that let you dig up old stuff in totally new ways. These are some of the best Internet Archive …
