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EFF: “Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide useful health metrics to take to our doctors. But few of these tools provide the sorts of privacy and security promises we demand …
LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project. A LegiAlerts project — United States, 2003–present Open the dashboard → Two decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, This data originates from the LegiAlerts team — Liz Saila, Erin Reed, Allison Chapman, and Alejandra Caraballo — whose LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking project has compiled anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in every state and Congress stretching back more …
Nieman Lab: “In the final days of World War II, as the German Reich collapsed, Nazi officials ordered millions of party membership cards to be destroyed. The vast card index that documented membership across Germany survived largely because a paper mill operator, Hanns Huber, chose to hand the records over to the advancing US forces …
The New York Times – Gift Article: “PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3 billion in costs to the bills of millions of households and businesses within the next three years, an increase driven by the power demands of data centers. During the …
“Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, launched a campaign to dismantle the international criminal court (ICC) on Monday, claiming the global tribunal was interfering with US military and law enforcement operations at the risk of American sovereignty. Rubio invoked images of US border patrol agents and elected leaders being “dragged before an international court” …
Yahoo Tech – They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network – “That small stub on top of nearly every LED streetlight? Most people assume it’s a photocell — a dumb sensor that flips the light on at dusk. It’s not. Or not just that. It’s a standardized NEMA socket, and cities are quietly filling it …
“The web was made by people. Not by algorithms, not by models, not by machines that dream in code. By people in rooms, garages, and workshops arguing over protocols, shipping software on floppy disks, building companies from nothing, and connecting the world one awkward, brilliant, human decision at a time. For over fifty years, from …
TheBoard.World: The Liar’s Dividend: When Seeing Is No Longer Believing in Wartime AI deepfakes are hyper-realistic audio, video, or images generated by artificial intelligence to mimic real people or events, with the intent to deceive. During the Iran war, a surge of deepfake content on X (formerly Twitter) has overwhelmed both the public and verification …
The War Horse – “Critics Say It’s Built to Reach One Conclusion: The researcher leading the assessment also led a controversial 2015 Marine Corps study that the defense secretary has used to argue women should not serve in combat roles Two months before Pete Hegseth appeared in front of Congress to testify in his confirmation …
Reuters: “Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting workers for mass layoffs. The lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California, federal court late Monday, says that the company relied on factors such as …
The Atlantic Gift Article: The State Department told a court last year that the secretary didn’t use disappearing messages. By this spring, it had dropped that claim.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates as part of his job. So it was no surprise that …
BloombergLaw [no paywall]: “AI-native firms may not be taking Big Law’s market share, but they are making incursions into a valuable asset: talent. “The AI-forward attorneys are chafing at the slow pace of firm adoption and archaic thinking,” said Sam Shaddox, 38, a co-founder of Seattle’s Talairis Law Group. “They’re migrating to the firms that …