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Gizmodo: “With the refinement of digital tools, companies are subjecting their employees to increasing levels of surveillance — and increasing risks. Now, the security of thousands of employees and their parent companies is at risk after real-time images of their computers were leaked by an employee surveillance app. On Thursday, researchers at Cybernews reported that …
Gizmodo – “Thetrilliondollardinner.gov, DinnerForAmerica.gov, and TheTrillion.Gov were all registered recently. Donald Trump takes a lot of heat for taking down government webpages with essential information like LGBTQ health information and climate change-related data, but no one gives him credit for the webpages he puts up. 404 Media reports that the administration registered three websites with …
“Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect – our community platform – and thanks to thousands of votes, comments and passionate feedback, it’s finally here. But this is more than just a feature launch. It’s the story of what happens when community insight, real-world pain points, and a whole lot …
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ): “The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been marked by a flurry of executive actions that have created a chilling effect and have the potential to curtail media freedoms. These measures threaten the availability of independent, fact-based news for vast swaths of America’s population. CPJ has noted a …
“Here are the big AI, but none of them are privacy-oriented: Deepseek – owned by China Gemini – owned by Google Copilot – owned by Microsoft OpenAI – NSA board member So which AI can we trust? Is there one run by someone trustworthy?”
Hot to Geek: “Incognito mode, private browsing, and other similar modes offered by web browsers are a genuinely useful feature for your privacy, but it’s not what many people think it is. All the network traffic that goes from your computer to the internet at home goes through a network router, which is in turn …
The Guardian – “From mass firings to unprecedented influence…Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has …
The Verge [no paywall] – “By gutting USAID, the Trump administration has cut off access to data people relied on to warn people about weather disasters and food shortages around the world. Within weeks of President Trump stepping into office, key health and environmental resources that doctors and farmers rely on started disappearing from federal …
Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our data on terminated NIH and NSF grants are collected from submissions from affected …
“OSINT Tools and More – Editor’s note: Happy fifth anniversary to Jeremy Caplan’s excellent Wonder Tools Substack newsletter. He started his newsletter a couple of months before I launched the Toolbox newsletter. If you’re not subscribing, you should!. I took a fact-checking and OSINT tools course from the Knight Center for the Americas last month. …
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has launched an ongoing secrecy news database, which they are calling The Classified Catalog, to keep track of all secrecy-related news during the Trump administration. Reporters, FOIA requesters, and the public can use it to chart stories about FOIA news and litigation, disappearing messages, information being taken down from …
Your Local Epidemiologist: “There are concerns that Secretary Kennedy will politically influence or change ACIP—the external committee for vaccine policy in the United States—which means the possibility of changing eligibility or access to vaccines. If this happens, it will be a mess. States will be on their own, insurance companies will be looking for third-party …