Tootfinder

Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident "a watershed moment" and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses (Greg Brockman)
https://blog.gregbrockman.com/the-defenders-window

The Defender's Window • Greg Brockman
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and... | Greg Brockman | Svbtle

Resistance Directory is a living index of verified organizations, tools, media, and grassroots networks fighting authoritarianism, corruption, and injustice.
(I don't know how reliable this list is)
https://resistancedirectory.com/

Resource Links - Resistance Directory
The Resistance Directory is a living index of verified organizations, tools, media, and grassroots networks fighting authoritarianism, corruption, and

We crashed Carney’s CEO Summit
On Monday, the 350 community joined with local and national organizations and thousands of people to crash Carney’s CEO summit, in a powerful, cross-movement show of opposition to the billionaire agenda.
https://350.org/canada/ceo-summit?…

We crashed Carney’s CEO Summit
On Monday, the 350 community joined with local and national organizations and thousands of people to crash Carney’s CEO summit, in a powerful, cross-movement show of opposition to the billionaire agenda.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more l…

NPR announces a $1M restricted gift to the Public Media Bridge Fund to provide direct grants to eligible NPR Member organizations facing sustainability issues (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/g-s1-143398/n…

TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street

Exclusive: Truth Social to license its data to Wall Street
Interim CEO Kevin McGurn says firms have been scraping Truth Social data and repackaging it for institutional clients.

The US state department is actively undermining Europe with these funds,
The State Department has put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions"
https://www.

I donated again to Partners in Health
https://www.pih.org/our-mission
"By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in n…

Mission
Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.

TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street

Exclusive: Truth Social to license its data to Wall Street
Interim CEO Kevin McGurn says firms have been scraping Truth Social data and repackaging it for institutional clients.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Standards Not Force
may be useful for residents who want to become more involved in local government, public oversight, peaceful protest, corporate accountability, or community organizing.
It may also support journalists, researchers, democracy advocates, neighborhood groups, students, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers seeking a structured approach to lawful civic engagement.
The organization presents an advocacy framework rather than a neutral government or academic…

Standards Not Force - Resistance Directory
Standards Not Force promotes lawful nonviolent civic action, public accountability, community safety, transparency, and grassroots organizing.

Summer is in full swing, and the Georgia Museum of Art has been busy with a beloved community program. Art Adventures is a free, immersive art education experience for local youth organizations. Sessions are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in June and July and combine gallery tours, sensory experiences, games and hands-on activities to create a captivating learning experience that engages a variety of age groups.
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Are there any movements, groups, or volunteer-heavy organizations you are part of that you think work particularly well? Do you have an idea of what makes them work well? Any public statements of goals or values, or guidelines for people engaging in the community, that you feel contribute to successful functioning? Please share!

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

It turns out the Trump administration has been investigating progressive
and even mainstream groups
that have been involved in protests against Donald Trump’s sweeping deportations,
according to newly released government documents.
That Trump’s deportations have prompted widespread outrage is hardly surprising.
The president arguably had an electoral mandate to secure the
US-Mexican border
but not to raid workplaces and neighborhoods to deport undo…

Donald Trump’s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro
The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice

#PostGISDay 2026 will be November 19.
Call for talk ideas is open now. Registration is free!
This is a virtual community conference all about #PostGIS geospatial and
projects that extend PostGIS or use PostGIS.
Details:

PostGIS Day 2026 – November 19 | Free Virtual Community Event
Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.

Updates from @… as the 2026 Digital Humanities conference begins. Lots of ADHO folk (all volunteers) are in the room - say hi! https://adho.org/leadership/cob-eb/
Lauren and Kr…

London- and Boston-based Mindgard, which offers automated AI security and red-teaming tools to help organizations secure AI systems, raised a $30M Series A (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/mindgard-raises-30-million-to-protect-ai-system…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 3862 nodes and 87324 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT
Aaron Chatterji, David Holtz, Neel Rakholia, Prasanna Tambe, Gawesha Weeratunga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12236 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12236 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12236
arXiv:2608.12236v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how organizations use frontier generative AI by linking ChatGPT Enterprise account records to usage, worker roles, task classifications, and public-company financial data through March 2026. These linked data enable a privacy-preserving analysis of adoption, worker roles, and message-level tasks at scale: for instance, the worker-level sample we analyze at the six-month adoption horizon includes over 1,500 organizations and over 17 million messages. We document four facts about enterprise AI adoption and use. First, ChatGPT Enterprise usage has grown rapidly due to a combination of new firm adoption and growing intensity among existing adopters. Second, U.S.-based public company adoption is concentrated among larger, more valuable, and more R&D- and SG&A-intensive firms. Third, active use within adopting firms spans job functions and seniority levels, with especially high usage intensity among early-career workers. Fourth, ChatGPT Enterprise usage encompasses a broad range of knowledge work tasks, including writing, technical work, communication, and information synthesis. In aggregate, these results suggest that firms differ widely in the speed, breadth and purpose of their enterprise AI adoption, and that they are still actively learning how to integrate AI into organizational workflows.
toXiv_bot_toot

If you are in Sweden and want to do more #dotnet #security work, Sustainsys is hiring for a Senior .NET Developer. Seems like a great opportunity. Let them know you heard about the position from Khalid. :)

We're hiring a Senior .NET Developer to join us in Huddinge. 😊🙌💫 Sustainsys builds and maintains Sustainsys.Saml2, an open source library used by organizations worldwide, and we're a certified… | Sustainsys
We're hiring a Senior .NET Developer to join us in Huddinge. 😊🙌💫 Sustainsys builds and maintains Sustainsys.Saml2, an open source library used by organizations worldwide, and we're a certified training and consulting partner to Duende Software. Our founder Anders Abel was recently re-elected Microsoft MVP for Security and Identity. We're a small team — four people today — and growing. This role means working closely with Anders on both product development and customer projects i…

More surprises....not.
Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent

Under US law, a "church" is only really defined by the IRS (as far as I'm aware). This definition lists 14 attributes, of which a church is expected to have 9. They are as follows:
- Distinct legal existence
- Recognized creed and form of worship
- Definite and distinct ecclesiastical government
- Formal code of doctrine and discipline
- Distinct religious history
- Membership not associated with any other church or denomination
- Organization of ordained ministers
- Ordained ministers selected after completing prescribed courses of study
- Literature of its own
- Established places of worship
- Regular congregations
- Regular religious services
- Sunday schools for the religious instruction of the young
- Schools for the preparation of its members
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/definition-of-church
Let's talk about each one now, and a bit later we'll talk about examples of systems existing now and how they become essentially "out of band," "invisible," or otherwise "indecipherable" to the dominant system....

➡️ Milwaukee Bike Rides
#bookmarks

🚀🇰🇷Die 36.Jahreskonferenz der Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), oder auch @…, startet nächsten Montag.
✨ Unser Konsortiumssprecher Torsten Schrade, sowie @…, @…

Newly disclosed records reveal
the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations
and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City,
infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and le…

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

NYT CEO Kopit Levien confirms The Athletic is no longer pursuing a major partnership with Kalshi, saying "we take the trust of our readers incredibly seriously" (Brett LoGiurato/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/the-prediction-market-predicament

The Prediction Market Predicament
Prediction markets are making inroads with major news organizations, but at the Status Summit, two of the industry’s most influential leaders raised questions about whether embracing them could undermine reader trust.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …

The Dangers of Florida’s New “Terrorist” Designations
Analysis of First Amendment implications of Florida's HB 1471, part of a growing trend of state-level terrorism designation laws.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The amount of cyber-related news that extends over the weekend is getting ridiculous, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap,
--Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US orgs,
--OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview,
--Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance,
--3…

Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap
Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US organizations, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview, Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance, 360 Security says it has achieved Mythos-style vulnerability discovery, much more

BREAKING NEWS
Richard Stallman found that Eliza models left Emacs and breached three outside organizations during cybersecurity tests because misconfigured environments accidentally gave them access to the internet. The company notified those affected and urged other AI labs to audit their own testing systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft Notepad have been reprogrammed in Lisp.

Newly installed EMU president Brendan Kelly warns anyone interested: “When I say these jobs are hard, they are impossibly hard. These are just incredibly complex organizations in a really unstable environment.”
#QuoteOfTheDay
lifted from an ann arbor observer article (behind a paywall #alas)

Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that "extends human will and judgment" (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/

The Future Worth Building Is Human
AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.

"Kenyan teen leads charge on tree planting and climate awareness"
#Kenya #Trees #Environment

Kenyan teen leads charge on tree planting and climate awareness
Baraka Moruri has been passionate about the environment since he was 6. Now 13, the Kenyan climate champion says he has planted more than 7,600 trees with the help of family, friends and private organizations. “My goal is unlimited. I want to plant over 1 million trees before I turn 18,” he says. On March […]

How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken
#foss

How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken - FOSS Force
Even when organizations adopt open standards, hidden dependencies can keep proprietary control intact and make open software take the blame.

"Taylor Fresh Foods "donated millions to political organizations aligned with the President, including more than $1 million directly to MAGA Inc., and has hired a former Trump White House official to lobby on its behalf." The donations came less than a week after the Trump administration's change to food traceability rules."
Elizabeth Warren names 'darker shadow' behind Trump's 'calamitous' food safety mess - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/elizabeth-warren-rfk-jr/

A group of prominent conservative organizations petitions the FCC to deny license renewal requests from the eight local TV stations owned and operated by ABC (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/06/abc-license-renewals-fcc

Conservative fight against license renewals for ABC stations heats up
Prominent organizations accuse network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting Chinese communist party

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

Interested in volunteering for @… after the success of #DH2026? Now you can!
Join the Awards Committee or be the 2026-2027 ADHO Communications Fellow - apply by September 18

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

A broad coalition of media organizations urges California Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the Community NEWS Act, which gives tax credits for employing journalists (Steven Waldman/Steven Waldman on LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevendwald

A freakishly broad coalition of groups just urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign AB2222, which would be the nation’s biggest public policy effort to revitalize community news (ever?). In addition to just… | Steven Waldman
A freakishly broad coalition of groups just urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign AB2222, which would be the nation’s biggest public policy effort to revitalize community news (ever?). In addition to just about every media group in CA, it’s endorsed by so many national groups – including... -- all the traditional "newspaper” associations (National Newspaper Association, News/Media Alliance, America's Newspapers) -- ethnic media (National Newspaper Publishers Associaton, the Black newspapers, …

A group of prominent conservative organizations has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests from the eight local television stations owned and operated by ABC,
accusing the network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting the Chinese communist party.
The petitions come after the commission, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, took the nearly unprecedented step of requiring the network, a frequent recipient of attacks fro…

Conservative fight against license renewals for ABC stations heats up
Prominent organizations accuse network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting Chinese communist party

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The best leaders do not ask, “How do I get people back where I can watch them?”
They ask, “Which work improves when we are together, and which work improves when people have focus and control?”
That question turns flexible work policies from a perk into an operating system. 
It forces organizations to define the purpose of office days,
the norms for remote days,
the rituals for learning,
and the metrics that actually matter. 

Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI labs to perform similar reviews.

A coalition of press freedom advocates urges G20 leaders to ensure that their summit in Miami in December allows impartial, transparent, and broad media access (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-rsf-and-partners-urge-g20-leade…

CPJ, RSF, and partners urge G20 leaders to uphold media access - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 19 other organizations, experts, and news leaders, are calling on Group of 20 leaders to ensure that “journalists and news organizations will be able to freely cover deliberations by representatives of the world’s largest economies, whose decisions have broad ramifications around the world.”...

Latino advocacy groups and voting rights organizations Thursday filed a suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s policy of allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter polling locations in certain circumstances to conduct immigration enforcement during the 2026 midterm elections.
The suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia argues that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s recent comments that ICE agents would be at po…

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

“The continued canceled funding that we’re seeing from USDA
continues to be the cherry on top for many organizations and farmers that are already up against really hard times,”
said Anna Pesek, who farms poultry, pigs and flowers in eastern Iowa and serves on the board of Iowa Valley RC&D.
It’s a dynamic that could come into play in November’s midterm elections in Iowa,
a Republican-dominated state where Democrats believe they may have a shot at winning its open U…

‘A slap in the face’: small farmers say Trump is turning his back on them
The president wooed farmers in his campaign, but now the USDA is yanking funding, citing ‘DEI’ and wasteful spending

Keyfactor, which manages billions of machine identities for more than 2,500 client organizations, raised $1B led by Summit Partners (Mike Lennon/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/keyfactor-scores-1-billion-investment-for-ai-post-quan…

Meta is testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, a step toward ending its third-party fact-checking program (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260909-meta-tests-fact-check-repl…

Meta tests fact-check replacement in Latin America
Meta said Wednesday it had begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, a step toward replacing the professional fact-checking program it runs with partner organizations across the region.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Proposed changes to Section 106 were issued by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
This is yet another of our government’s review organizations that has been filled with Trump appointees who have no sympathy for the subject on which they are expected to pass judgment.
While the proposed changes do not technically eliminate Section 106, they eviscerate it.
If this new policy is enacted, it would extend the autocratic decision-making of Trump’s Washington fiascos…

Opinion | It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.
The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

California lawmakers approved a bill to create tax credits for local news organizations based on journalist headcount, sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk (Suhauna Hussain/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2

Bill to aid California newsrooms now on the governor's desk
Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, which in practice would provide direct cash infusions to participating newsrooms.

Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~8% are being cut, rising to 15% in this fiscal year (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Most of the job losses are in Microsoft’s Xbox and commercial sales organizations.

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Thousands of people remain missing or unaccounted for following the Rapid Support Forces' capture of El Fasher, according to new findings published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan.
Following the takeover in late October 2025,
the International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 127,000 people were displaced from the city and surrounding villages.
The mission noted that humanitarian organizations later described El Fasher as a "ghost town,&…

Thousands remain missing after El Fasher takeover in Sudan | News.az
The report states that before the city's fall, El Fasher had an estimated population of about 260,000 people, News.az reports, citing reports of the U...

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

PolitiFact launches Well Informed to provide credible health information on social media and to news partners, with plans to launch a paid B2B newsletter (Jennifer Orsi/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-r…

Poynter’s PolitiFact launches service providing reliable, engaging health information to consumers and news organizations - Poynter
"Well Informed” offers social videos and stories backed by research to help people sort out personal health claims.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a federal citizenship database to help spot "invalid voters"
ahead of the midterm elections.
The administration is currently blocked from rolling out the tool, which the administration proposed using as part of a larger effort by President Trump to enact additional screening of voters ahead of November.
If the justices allow the administration to proceed, states could use the Department…

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voter-Screening Tool
Voting rights organizations had challenged a Trump administration overhaul of a government database, arguing it could be used to disenfranchise eligible voters.

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-anno…

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers
"Microsoft Frontier Company" is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners.

Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/anthropic-ope…

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics
regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday
after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunding the organizations expired.
The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025,
but, due to Senate rules, the defunding only lasted for one year,
and Congress failed to renew it before their summer recess.

Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire | Common Dreams
​Reproductive healthcare advocates vowed to keep up the fight as conservative activists pressure Congress to make the funding ban permanent.

Trump administration required to pay $65 million owed to lawyers of unaccompanied migrant children
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay about $65 million in overdue invoices to nonprofit organizations that provided legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to release the funds by noon Friday, Pacifc time.
Immigrant rights advo…

Trump administration to pay $65 million owed to lawyers of unaccompanied migrant children
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release about $65 million in unpaid fees to nonprofits that provided legal services to unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation.

LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/20…

Exclusive: LeapXpert mints $180M round, adds sports compliance customers
The communication startup monitors compliance for sports and finance organizations.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Warning:
A new Florida law gives the state’s chief of domestic security, with the approval of the governor and Cabinet,
power to designate organizations as domestic or foreign terrorist groups.
A designation can trigger dissolution of a corporation,
loss of public funding and benefits,
penalties for defined forms of material support,
and serious consequences for students and campus groups accused of promoting a named group.
A companion law allows inf…

The ‘Free State of Florida’ is watching — and withholding
Domestic ‘terror’ legislation compounds Florida’s free speech backslide

Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/hush-security-raises-30-million-for-ai-agen…

A look at California's Community NEWS Act, which if signed by Governor Newsom would be the most economically significant law supporting local news in US history (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

California’s Community NEWS Act could be a game changer for local news
California may be on the verge of enacting one of the nation’s most consequential measures to support local journalism. In this E&P Digital Exclusive “Shoptalk” column, Rebuild Local News’ Steven Waldman, Matt Pearce and Gene Perry explain how the Community NEWS Act could deliver more than $40 million annually to local news outlets across the state — rewarding organizations for retaining and hiring journalists, creating newsroom jobs and investing in local coverage. What could the leg…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 3862 nodes and 87324 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

It’s a case that has unsettled not only Herridge and her family,
but also the community of press freedom organizations that exist to ensure against the unthinkable
– a reporter being forced to disclose confidential sources,
shattering the foundation of national security reporting in the public interest.
“Reporter-source confidentiality is the lifeblood of investigative journalism,”
said Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation.
“W…

‘The day I disclose, my career is over’: the journalist facing an $800 daily fine to keep her sources secret
If Catherine Herridge’s petition to the US supreme court fails, she’ll be on the hook for a daily fine until she discloses her sources – a case unsettling press freedom organizations

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

California State Assembly passes a bill to create tax credits for local news organizations based on journalist headcount; the bill awaits Senate approval (Suhauna Hussain/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2

California's new attempt to help struggling newsrooms faces key test
The bill will require approval from two-thirds of the Legislature in the coming days in order to make it to Gov. Newsom's desk.

A group of 22 advocacy organizations including the ACLU, EFF, and PEN America writes Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro to support Disney's defense against the FCC (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/aclu-disney-support-fcc-tangle-1236823050/…

22 Advocacy Groups Line Up to Support Disney in Tangle With FCC
ACLU, National Coalition Against Censorship and 20 Other Groups Line Up to Support Disney in Tangle With FCC

Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5 (@anthropicai)
https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2070665903440871779

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X
Since June 12, we’ve been working closely with the US government to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

An army of attorneys is rallying to free hundreds of children from immigration custody,
where they have been stranded indefinitely by the Trump administration without their parents or loved ones, the Guardian can reveal.
The effort is a counter strike to what critics see as
unprecedented moves by federal officials to ride roughshod over children’s rights and increase deportations
– while in the meantime corralling them in conditions that can allegedly lead topsycholog…

Revealed: US attorneys rally to free children held in immigration custody
Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5524 nodes and 94219 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

A look at Tom Rosenstiel's idea that journalists should "run toward" AI to improve journalism, using it to collect and analyze data, find false claims, and more (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.

Should the press “run toward” AI?
A new book argues that news organizations should enthusiastically adopt AI to improve their journalism. Critics aren’t so sure.

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

The Halifax International Security Forum is an annual gathering
of senior military officers, defence and intelligence officials from across the free world,
and representatives from the media, think tanks, large companies and civil society organizations
whose work relates to defence and security issues or in some way seeks to promote and preserve a healthy democratic world.
Funded by NATO, the Canadian government and private-sector sponsors,
the event is a major…

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

California’s new attempt to help struggling newsrooms faces key test
Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations
based on the number of journalists they employ,
which in practice would provide direct cash infusions to participating newsrooms.
The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward (D-San Diego) earlier this year,
is the latest effort to provide a lifeline for the news industry.
There…

California's new attempt to help struggling newsrooms faces key test
The bill will require approval from two-thirds of the Legislature in the coming days in order to make it to Gov. Newsom's desk.

Trump has filed lawsuits against a number of news organizations, including ABC, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
In each case he claims he’s been defamed, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The reality is that he demands fealty to his vision of reality and that if you will not accept it, he will try to impose it.
His most recent target is the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank,
which he has threatened with a $5 billion defama…

Opinion | It Was Inevitable That Trump Would Come to This
Lèse-majesté, American-style.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Roughly two dozen immigration advocates, faith leaders, Japanese internment camp survivors and their descendants
completed a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage Saturday to an immigrant detention facility outside of Dilley.
The activists demanded the closure of the only federal family detention center,
described by a Japanese internment survivor as inhumane and a tragic “repetition of American history.”
Free Families, a national coalition of organizations advocating for imm…

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

PNK Group is a Russia-founded industrial real estate developer
that sold the Social Circle, Georgia warehouse to DHS for $128.6 million
— a property it bought for $29.4 million less than 3 years earlier.
The ~$99 million profit flowed to a company founded in Saint Petersburg by a man who got his start selling Putin-themed chocolate bars,
who appeared at events alongside Putin,
whose company partnered with sanctioned Sberbank,
and who appears in the ICIJ O…

PNK Group — Russia-Founded Industrial Developer, Social Circle GA Seller, Sberbank Partner · Detention Pipeline
Russia-founded industrial developer that sold Social Circle, GA warehouse to DHS for $128.6M after buying it for $29.4M. Founder Sharkov has Sberbank, Roscongress, and ICIJ offshore ties.