Anything Counter

What is AnythingCounter? A live dashboard that shows real-time estimates of what happens every second in the digital world. You see numbers for AI hallucinations, deepfakes, phishing, e-waste, jobs lost to automation, and more. We take global statistics and turn them into counters that update continuously so you can watch digital activity in real time. …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Sorting algorithms

tools.simonwillison.net colophon – Watch how different algorithms organize data, step by step. – Explore and compare different sorting algorithms through interactive animated visualizations that display how each algorithm organizes data in real-time. The tool allows you to adjust dataset size and animation speed, run individual algorithms step-by-step or continuously, and race multiple algorithms simultaneously to …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management

State of Antisemitism in America Report 2025

“According to the latest annual State of Antisemitism in America Report released by American Jewish Committee (AJC) on February 10, 2026, a majority of American Jews believe antisemitism has become a “very serious” problem at home. Protests like that one in November seem to illustrate some of the reasons why. This year’s survey revealed roughly …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Legal Research, Social Media

The 20 companies that get the most money from the US government, ranked by contract value

Data is Beautiful – VeridionData – Top 20 Federal Government Contractor by Contract Value Sources: SAM.gov/FPDS FY2023 all-federal contract obligations, supplemented with FY2024 DoD data from Defense Security Monitor and Washington Technology Top 100. FY2023 because it’s the latest complete all-agency dataset publicly available. Subsidiaries rolled up under parent companies. I handle the sector labels; some companies straddle …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Gizmodo: “Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ChatGPT and will instead opt to open the platform up to competing chatbots, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Per …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Google just patented the end of your website

Forbes: A patent granted to Google on January 27, 2026 titled “AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user” describes a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. …

Subjects: Patent and Trademark

Map showing light pollution across the world

Map showing light pollution across the world – www.lightpollutionmap.info is a mapping application that displays light pollution related content. The primary use was to show VIIRS/DMSP data in a friendly manner, but over the many years it received also some other interesting light pollution related content like SQM/SQC measurements, Sky brightness, almost realtime clouds, aurora prediction …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Environmental Law, Search Engines

Claude Meets Westlaw and Lexis

Seth Chandler – “Something remarkable has happened in the last few months, and most of the legal academy has not noticed. Anthropic’s Claude—the AI assistant many of us have experimented with for drafting, brainstorming, and analysis—can now directly control a web browser. That means Claude can log into Westlaw or Lexis, run searches, read cases, …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines