The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately." n.pr/4ld632j
President Trump fires DHS’ Kristi Noem following tense hearings with North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, Deborah Ross over Hurricane Helene. Sen. Tillis called for Noem to resign. Rep. Ross called for her impeachment. (Via @daniellebattaglia.bsky.social)
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Grammarly is offering an AI-powered tool called "Expert Review" that simulates feedback from famous writers, dead and living, without their permission (Miles Klee/Wired)
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The Defense Department spent $38,000,000 LESS on FOIA in FY 2025 than it did in 2024.
This is a 37% decrease.
Other agencies do not report nearly the same drop in spending, in fact many spent more in 2025 than 2024.
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Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait killed her and five other U.S. service members.
Amor was one of four U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war and identified Tuesday by the Pentagon.
I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com.
Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte.
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Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of the Iran strikes (Washington Post)
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AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator to qualify for copyright protection. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
2 votes: NC GOP Senate leader Phil Berger in virtual tie with Sheriff Sam Page. It's well within the 1% threshold required to mandate a recount. Berger & his allies heavily outspent Page. (Via @dawnbvaughan.bsky.social & @nathanpcollins.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga
This will get recounted and challenged for sure, and the lead could change, but as of right now two voters just decided the direction of the #ncga Senate. #ncpol
Subscribe to real journalism, says NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger — even if it isn’t us. A classy ad. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...
Here's something I learned in researching this story: Since the death of George Floyd, 2/3rds of the private companies that provided liability insurance to law enforcement agencies pulled out, and those that remained have increased their rates and lowered caps.
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Public broadcasters lost federal funding last year. For @newsobserver.com, I checked in with a few stations in North Carolina to learn how they're coping.
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This year, N.C. officially began recognizing only two genders, male and female. Advocates say the law erases trans and nonbinary people, and could have dangerous implications.
We spoke to four nonbinary organizers in the Triangle who are creating spaces for queer folks.
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Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin all about how to find fake cell phone towers that can track your movements or intercept text messages.
A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state.
Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers.
A Supreme Court case could make it worse.
Here’s how.
Scoop: Elon Musk tied to about 90 companies in Texas, which he uses for everything from paying nannies to buying land to supporting Trump’s re-election, according to an NYT examination 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
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The deaths of three U.S. servicemen mark the first American casualties since the start of operation 'Epic Fury' on Saturday.
The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida could soon be wiped out — not by hot-tub water temperatures or the mysterious plague of stony coral tissue loss disease, but by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Huge celebrations around Iran on Saturday. This poignant detail from @nytimes.com piece
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WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
Screenshot of New York Times article: “OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash”
Screenshot of text from article: “Under the deal, OpenAI agreed to let the Pentagon use its A.I. systems for any lawful purpose, a term required by the Pentagon. But OpenAI also said it had found a way to ensure that its technologies would adhere to its safety principles by installing specific technical guardrails on its systems.”
My major takeaway from the last year of reporting on generative AI chatbots is that safety guardrails can fail when conversations run long and that everyone who works in this space knows that
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WSJ: Iran said that at least 40 elementary school children were killed as the result of an attack in Minab, in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan, according to state broadcaster IRIB, which said 48 more had been injured. The attack took place on Saturday, which is a school day in Iran.
BREAKING: The U.S. military used a laser to take down a Customs and Border Protection drone, lawmakers say, and FAA closed airspace near El Paso, Texas.
MuckRock is hiring! We’re looking for an operations manager to join our transparency team. Fully remote! Full healthcare! And most importantly you get the exclusive blue staff hoodie www.muckrock.com/jobs/operati...
Al Qaeda bombed the USS Cole a quarter century ago, killed 17 U.S. sailors. The trial of an accused conspirator is less than 100 days away. And the government is still trying to shore up its case. My dispatch on the longest running capital case at Guantánamo Bay.
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NEW: Jmail creator and general internet prankster Riley Walz is joining OpenAI, w/ @mzeff.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/openai...
With prediction markets booming, so have concerns about insider trading. Now, Kalshi has disclosed its first public actions against accounts suspected of trading on confidential information.
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