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Air Traffic Control Systems: Ambitious New Modernization Effort Needs to Improve Cost and Schedule Planning.

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USAFacts team – It is often said of trust that it takes years to build and seconds to destroy.

Politico: “Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Donald Trump and three top advisers, calling the abrupt lockout a “direct assault on the First Amendment.”

Nautilus: “Even though it might be a dying pastime.

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Ars Technica: “Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

Report MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training August 13, 2026 “…As AI-enabled technologies become more capable, it will be possible – and tempting – to offload more “thinking” tasks to them; not surprisingly, students

CourtListener Joins ChatGPT Enterprise Free Law Project’s CourtListener plugin in ChatGPT is now available, giving lawyers grounded, verifiable access to case law and PACER data inside the AI tools they already use.

Bloomberg: “Most Americans support a ban on lawmaker stock trading.

The New Republic – “Former Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, employees are working on an artificial intelligence takeover of federal government services for the Trump administration.

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 19, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few.

Many Americans say some restrictions are OK when weighed against concerns about false information or national security.Most Americans see freedom of the press – protected by the First Amendment to the U.S.

“Our new report ft. low-carbon data center megadeals, reopened public markets, and rise of adaptation .

The New York Times gift article – “An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

We cannot govern systems we don’t understand, so we built a complete data model of the United States federal government – entities, positions, people, and the legal relationships between them.

ActionNetwork.org: “Midterms are just around the corner and the threats to free and fair elections from authoritarian movements are arriving fast and furious.

MTN: “Reps.

EFF: “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script.

The Atlantic, no paywall – Unmanned ground vehicles are conducting once-impossible medical evacuations along Ukraine’s front lines.

Garden for Birds is a U.S.

Raw America: “A federal judge on Thursday officially ordered the Trump administration to give 30 days’ notice before making any changes to the Kennedy Center, including anything that would resemble demolition of its main building.

Spoon & Tomago: “Cutting through the white-capped waves of the Seto Inland Sea is a one-of-kind “floating library”.

The New York Times: ‘The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, part of the president’s plan to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and government spending, according to a new estimate from a congressional…

Politico: “A secret, months-long battle between tech titans and the Justice Department — over prosecutors’ effort to obtain details on a journalist’s LinkedIn interactions for use in a national security leak probe — spilled into view Tuesday during a fede…

Follow up to Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People – See Also via Micah Lee – Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials – This morning, DDoSecrets published an exci…

TPM – Talking Points Memo: “IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police “anti-capitalism” and “extremism on migration, race, and gender” The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack down on dissent, incl…

Reverse Warrants and the Fourth Amendment: The Supreme Court Weighs in on Geofence Searches, CRS Repor R48852. 09/15/2026.

Bloomberg (Gift Article): Iran Blockade Costs Are Draining America’s Global Military Power.

“The ongoing campaign to build thousands of massive datacenters for AI will create a “tsunami” of discarded electronics, putting the world on a course to triple its annual generation of toxic e-waste in the next 25 years, a new report projects.

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The New York Times: “Nearly half a billion birds may soar across the United States in the next two weeks during their annual fall migration, prompting requests for residents to turn off or dim lights to help ensure their safe flight.

The Atlantic, no paywall – “A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.: “Donald Trump has not forgotten his midsummer promise to publicly shame the S…

USA Facts: Injuries and fatalities for e-bikes and e-scooters have increased over the past several years, but does the data exist to help us understand why?

POP RDI; RET: “Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently published a blog post titled We Must Pace the Frontier and it is a load of bullshit, with a grim goal of regulating open weight models and giving the frontier labs an antitrust waiver.

Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, September 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I.

“SNF Agora faculty and fellows are frequently called upon by local, national, and international media to offer context and insight on the complex challenges facing democracy today.

Wired – “The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes.

DoD Inspector General, LEAD IG REPORT TO THE U.S.

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Wall Street Journal gift article: “Trump officials say the oil-market disruption is temporary, but Chevron’s Mike Wirth and others warn global supplies are running low, with no respite in sight American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged…

404 Media: “Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both v…

“In Pew Research Center surveys, Americans overwhelmingly favor several proposed changes to the U.S. political system, from term and age limits for government officials to campaign finance limitations.

ProPublica: “Some U.S.

404 Media: “We have a big one today: OpenAI is hiring an army of human contractors to read real ChatGPT users prompts.

Supreme Court Report – Quantifying the U.S.

The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of nearly 500 first-hand accounts from 9/11 responders to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.

Bloomberg (Gift Article): Anthropic Says Yemeni Cell Used Claude in Missile Development.

The New York Times: “The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a Trump administration plan to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the lead-up to the midterm elections, a major loss for President Trump, who has long claimed without evidence that fr…