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ABC.net.au: “An alliance of marine scientists has discovered more than 1,121 new species of sea creatures around the globe since April 2025. This marks a 54 per cent increase in the number of species discovered annually, but experts warn undiscovered species might go extinct before they are identified and catalogued…Thousands of previously unknown species have …
Follow up to $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies, Decoding Fox News – The DOJ website now shows a blank page. Links to documents have been eliminated. I posted real time reporting throughout January 6, 2021 and identified a number of sources to access government documents specific to the event. These documents are …
Shah, Anand and Levy, Joshua, Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts (March 20, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6766859 – This paper studies how generative AI has reshaped entry into the federal civil court system. Drawing on administrative records covering more than 4.5 million non-prisoner federal civil court cases from …
NextGov/FCW: “Public broadcasting has a long history of capturing important moments in American life. It preserved voices from the civil rights movement, debates over war and foreign policy, regional arts coverage and local public affairs programs that reflected the people and places shaping the nation. But many of those moments have also been hard to …
Financial Review: “MinterEllison has become the first major Australian law firm to admit out loud a growing fear across the world: artificial intelligence-led automation may hurt lawyer numbers, and graduates will be hit first. Minters has cut its graduate cohort for 2025-26 by almost a third from the previous year, to 72, partly because artificial …
Citizens for Ethics: “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today requiring Trump administration officials to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve text messages, including Signal messages, pertaining to its work, in response to a motion filed and argued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of the Freedom of the …
Beyond Plastics – None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility: “A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores. As detailed in the new report, titled “Tracking …
Government Executive: “The White House recently unveiled a new app to give the public “unfiltered” access to “key priorities,” “historic moments” and “policy breakthroughs.” Now, it’s directing agencies to help install it on the government phones of federal employees. The Trump administration launched the app, which promises to “[keep] you connected to President Donald J. …
U.S. Drought Monitor: The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) is a map released every Thursday, showing where drought is and how bad it is across the U.S. and its territories. The map uses six classifications: normal conditions, abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels …
NOTICE News: “Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical Monday — an 83-page document titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) — and it reads less like a church document and more like a progressive policy agenda for the digital age. The pope called on governments to regulate AI, warned that companies invoking ethics “in the abstract” …
Wendy Liu – The Guardian – As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move. Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way. It was …
Glass Empires: “This article is the historical companion to yesterday’s investigation of the WEXMAC TITUS warehouse buildout. Read this before they build the next camp. “If they did not know, they did not know because they did not want to know.” — Primo Levi, Afterword to If This Is a Man / The Truce, 1987. …