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Follow up to White House Webpage Pushing Save Our Elections Act – Via the Brennan Center – New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting – Update: When this article was first published, the SAVE America Act included a provision that would have also required voters to show documents such as …
Most people get around 11 out of 20. “In a research paper published in the British Journal of Psychology, researchers from UNSW and the ANU recruited 125 participants – including 36 people with exceptional face-recognition ability, known as super recognisers, and 89 control participants – to complete an online test in which they were shown …
Internet Archive Blogs: “Digital journalists increasingly turn to web archives like the Wayback Machine to follow how things on the Internet break, change or disappear – from deleted posts to quietly edited pages. The web has become not only a source of information but also the subject of media investigations, prompting journalists, researchers and activists …
ABCNews: “In a study of nearly 28 million older Americans, long-term exposure to fine particle air pollution raised the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. That link held even after researchers accounted for common conditions like high blood pressure, stroke and depression. Fine particle air pollution, known as PM2.5, consists of tiny particles in the air that …
“Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to increase domestic production of glyphosate and elemental phosphorus, calling both “critical to the national defense” and that shortages of the weedkiller would add “pressure to the domestic food system.” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supported the move, despite his past …
Gizmodo: “The era of AI has not been particularly great for cybersecurity. We know that vibe-coded websites and apps have been a hotbed of security flaws that leave the platforms vulnerable to attacks. It turns out that vibe-generating your passwords also puts you at risk. New research from cybersecurity firm Irregular found that passwords generated …
Using the federal government official White House site, the Save our Elections Now is pushing hard to force Congress to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or the SAVE Act. Quoting the text on this page the goals and rationale are as follows: A Valid ID Before Registering to Vote in a Federal Election …
“Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. According to a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, this bug (tracked under CW1226324 and first detected on January 21) affects the …
The Atlantic Gift Article: “…the labour market for office workers is beginning to shift. Americans with a bachelor’s degree account for a quarter of the unemployed, a record. High-school graduates are finding jobs quicker than college graduates, an unprecedented trend. Occupations susceptible to AI automation have seen sharp spikes in joblessness. Businesses really are shrinking …
Follow up to my post today – Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act – See Also via the Washington Post: “Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation ending 287(g) agreements between the state’s law enforcement agencies and the federal immigration enforcement agency. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed into law Tuesday emergency legislation …
Daily Mail: Urgent warning to headphone-wearers as scientists discover TOXIC cancer-causing chemicals in 81 popular devices from Bose, Panasonic, Samsung and Sennheiser. ..Scientists from the European ToxFree LIFE for All project tested commercially available headphones for ‘endocrine–disrupting’ chemicals. These compounds include the so–called ‘forever chemicals’ bisphenol A (BPA) and the similar bisphenol S (BPS), which …
Trump Action Tracker – “Documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Trump and his administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes and may pose a threat to American democracy, since January 2025…This project is led by Professor Christina Pagel, a UK-based health services researcher and science communicator. She created and maintains the dataset underlying …