Asta : https://asta.allen.ai/
A scholarly research assistant that combines literature understanding and data-driven discovery. Asta uses 108M abstracts and 12M full-text papers to find, summarize, and analyze scientific evidence. A project from Ai2.
EFF is proud to support the
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act.”
This new federal bill would ban ICE and CBP agents, and some local police working with them,
from acquiring or using biometric surveillance systems,
including face recognition technology, or information derived from such systems by another entity.
This bill would be enforceable, among other ways, by a strong private right of action.
The bill’s lead author is Senator Ed Markey.
We thank him for…
Ex-feds axed in DEI purge file class action suit - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/12/ex-feds-axed-dei-purge-file-class-action-suit/409985/
DSA und DMA: EU-Digitalgesetze sollen stärker durchgesetzt werden
Die EU-Kommission will die Digitalgesetzgebung rund um Digital Services Act und Digital Markets Act in 2026 entschiedener durchsetzen.
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from my link log —
Super-flat ASTs: data-oriented design for parsers.
https://jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast/
saved 2025-12-05 https://dotat.at/:/ZQJOH.html
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to dissolve after Republicans rescinded $1.1B at President Trump’s behest.
This ends the 58-year-old agency that distributed federal funds to NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local public radio & television stations. https://apple.news/AXdo2-zPuRCiJSiIVd3
The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…
DSA: EU-Kommission verhängt 120 Millionen Euro Strafe gegen X
Wegen mehrerer Verstöße gegen den Digital Services Act hat die Europäische Kommission eine erste Strafe gegen Elon Musks Plattform X verhängt.
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