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CRS Report – Data.gov: Implementation and Perspectives on Its Functions. P.L.115-435 Publication Date: 05/21/2026. “…The OPEN Government Data Act defines data as “recorded information” and data asset as “a collection of data elements or data sets that may be grouped together.” However, OMB’s definition from implementation guidance in Memorandum M-25-05 interpreted the act’s definition of …
Wired: “The war over forever chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter into battle. Now, a new front has opened over advertising claims. Cookware company Caraway is alleging that “Big Cookware” is using a lawsuit to try to “silence” the company, which rose to prominence making forever-chemical-free pans. …
Defiance News: “Today, a coalition of locally elected district attorneys and prosecutors from across the United States have officially put the Trump administration on notice: any federal agent who shows up at a polling place in violation of state or federal law will be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which …
A serious claim requiring serious consideration. Christopher Armitage – “The Federalist Society spent forty years building a captured federal judiciary, and we are now living inside the result. The doctrine they built it around has a name, unitary executive theory, and the doctrine has a method. The method is to read every Democratic exercise of …
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026). “WHY I BUILT THIS Many industry experts and companies claim AI profitability by 2030 is possible, so I wanted to see how close we really are. This site tracks cumulative spend versus revenue across most major AI companies in one place, allowing you to …
Agroecology Map is an Open Platform that aims to assist in the mapping and exchange of experiences with the aim of bringing people together to strengthen and create new collaborative networks that enhance the sharing of real (and imaginary) experiences in Agroecology (Agroforestry Systems, Permaculture, Food Sovereignty and Others) Agroecology is an integrative approach to …
Searchlight Institute: Health Care Must Serve Patients, Not Corporations. May 26, 2026. Too often, the deck is stacked against patients and individual health care providers trying to do the right thing for the patients, because corporations dominate the health care marketplace and put profits first. Costs rise, care is denied, and patients are too often …
Via LLRX – Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screen. Erik D Reichle, Professor of cognitive psychology, Macquarie University and Lili Yu, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, Macquarie University ask us to acknowledge the critical fact that reading might appear to be an easy task, but this impression is …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026 – 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 increasingly complex and …
Gizmodo: “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have …
Proton Blog: “Journalists have always operated in the crosshairs. They investigate the powerful, protect confidential sources, and publish uncomfortable truths. Today the threats they face are evolving, with political pressure and surveillance coming not only from authoritarian regimes but also from backsliding liberal democracies. Bad actors can use hacks and data breaches to disrupt their …
An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System. Xu, Huihui. University of Pittsburgh ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2026. 32672122. Personalized legal summarization for individuals’ interests allows legal professionals and the general public to understand the complex legal reasoning. The lengthy legal case opinions can be hard for readers to peruse and find information of interest. Summarizing legal opinions …