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Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
The New York Times – “Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling from President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations… Trump firings hit agencies with oversight of Musk’s companies. Staffing changes, including the firing of several top officials, have affected agencies with federal investigations into or regulatory battles with Elon Musk’s companies… The events… Continue Reading
Your employer might be spying on you. Here’s how workers can check.
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: Six things you can do to get a sense of whether your employer is watching what you do on your computer and other devices. The reality is, your bosses may be able to see everything you’re doing on your phone or computer. So how can you be sure? Employers have a growing… Continue Reading
AI assistants risk misleading audiences by distorting BBC Journalism
Representation of BBC News content in AI Assistants. Research by Oli Elliott, Principal Data Scientist, BBC Responsible AI Team. February 2025. “AI assistants risk misleading audiences by distorting BBC Journalism The media landscape is being changed by AI. It offers new capabilities and opportunities for media companies like the BBC; and new formats and ways… Continue Reading
How Trump Could Remake the Supreme Court for a Generation
The Nation: Donald Trump is poised to become the first president since FDR to have appointed the majority of high-court justices. His potential picks are terrifying.This article appears in the March 2025 issue, with the headline “The Supreme Trump Court.” Donald Trump’s first term as president gave the republicans control over the most dangerous body… Continue Reading
Don’t let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Law Dork – “President Donald Trump and shadow-president Elon Musk are losing. When Justice Department lawyers go to court, trying to defend many of Trump and Musk’s actions, DOJ has regularly lost — and often face tense moments in court before being dealt those losses. On Monday, for example, Judge John Bates, a George W.… Continue Reading
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of DeepSeek Vulnerabilities as Governments Ban App
Gizmodo: “A cybersecurity company is warning businesses and organizations not to use a popular app from the generative AI company DeepSeek, saying that the program contains a number of security vulnerabilities that could compromise users’ data. The DeepSeek app, which shocked the stock market when it moved to the top of the Apple App Store… Continue Reading
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
Vox [unpaywalled]- “There are a lot of them. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws. The scope of Trump and Musk’s sweeping effort to purge the federal workforce and slash government spending has shocked the political world — in part for its ambition, but also… Continue Reading
Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February
FDD: “Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. As readers of our Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker will know, this is a monthly publication in which FDD’s experts and scholars assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas… Continue Reading
The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
Gizmodo – “It’s fascism, plain and simple.Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre… Continue Reading
Executive Actions and Legal Challenges in President Trump’s First 100 Days
Lawfare: “On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States. After taking the oath of office, President Trump began signing executive orders pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, implementing Schedule F to reclassify civil servants as political appointees, declaring a national emergency at the border, and more. Executive actions related to national… Continue Reading
Elon Musk’s AI Fueled War on Human Agency
The New Yorker [unpaywalled]: “…To run his agency [DOGE], Musk brought on a group of tech-company managers and inexperienced twentysomethings whose credentials included internships at SpaceX. We watched as this crew began interrogating federal employees about their jobs, interfering with the system that controls payments at the Treasury Department, and trawling government budgets while Musk… Continue Reading
