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“Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions. Scholar Labs is powered by AI to act as an advanced research tool, helping you tackle questions that require looking at a subject from multiple angles. It analyzes your question …
Washington Post via MSN: The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective. The department has signed interagency agreements to outsource six …
Ongoing History of Protest Music – “Since there has always been social injustice in the world, there have always been people protesting many social ills. In many instances, people express oppression through chants and songs. Notable examples include Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (based on the Friedrich Schiller poem “Ode to Freedom”), which supported universal brotherhood …
MakeUseOf – This Cloudflare outage has forced half the internet offline Bloomberg [no paywall] – Why Today’s Internet Is So Fragile – For much of the world, there is no longer any such thing as being offline. The internet underpins the global financial and consumer ecosystem, enabling instant communication and transactions. While the system is …
The Verge: “Documents released by the House Oversight Committee shed light on Epstein’s day-to-day, largely via email — including his preoccupation with his Google presence…” See also The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency See also via beSpacific – Epstein’s Inbox – A trove of emails reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets …
Anil Dash – “Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we’re in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned. Most people who actually have technical roles within the tech industry, like engineers, product managers, and others …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico. A monarch butterfly carrying a tiny tag developed by Cellular Tracking Technologies at the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center in New Jersey, which helped …
Fortune Tech: “Calling all law school students…this one’s for you. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would not take a case involving the right to challenge expired patents. Our story begins with inventor Timothy Pryor, who owns several sensor-related patents and founded a firm called Gesture Technology Partners in 2013. In 2021, Gesture …
Matthew Sag: Judge Stein’s Order Denying OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 27, 2025) “A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence. On October 27, 2025, Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New …
Jer Thorp – @jerthorp.bsky.social – It took me about three months to get here but… Here’s a feather for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species.
U.S. Office of Government Ethics – Three 278 transaction reports for Trump posted to OGE Presidential and Vice Presidential Financial Disclosure Reports Certified reports listed here are those submitted by current (and former) President and Vice President. These reports can be downloaded without completing an OGE Form 201. All other nominee and appointee reports-> Trump, …
MakeUseOf: “I pulled my camera out last week to shoot a few photos, and I instantly remembered why I don’t like using this thing: it takes AA batteries. My wireless mouse takes one AA. I have three Xbox controllers that all take AAs. Over time, constantly swapping dead batteries and watching devices chew through them …