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Archives for April 2025

Our disaster warning systems are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge 

The Trump administration has cut off access to data used globally for warnings about disasters and shortages.

Justine Calma
Illegally fired FTC commissioners on Meta, bribes, and fighting for privacy

Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter want to take their fight to the Supreme Court, and they think they can win.

Nilay Patel
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine

Protecting broadband access is out — fighting diversity and the free press are in.

Karl Bode
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
You wouldn’t steal a font.

But the folks behind the mid-2000s anti-piracy campaign that once compared pirating software to stealing a car might have, reports Torrent Freak. A social media investigation suggests the campaign used a knockoff of a commercial font. Its creator, Just Van Rossum, told the outlet:

“I knew my font was used for the campaign and that a pirated clone named XBand-Rough existed. I did not know that the campaign used XBand-Rough and not FF Confidential, though. So this fact is new to me, and I find it hilarious,”

Tina Nguyen
Tina Nguyen
Did an AI write your bar exam?

If you’re an aspiring lawyer in California, it probably did: the State Bar recently admitted that some of the multiple-choice questions in their recent bar exam were written with AI assistance. A “speechless” Mary Basick, assistant dean at UC Irvine Law School, told the L.A. Times that several students had complained that the questions seemed AI-generated. “I defended the bar,” she said. “‘No way! They wouldn’t do that!’”

Federal prosecutors are still resigning over Eric Adams

Trump’s assault on rule of law and plans for mass deportation collide in a months-long shake-up at the DOJ.

Gaby Del Valle
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
AI bot personas may be undercover police.

404 Media reports US police departments are utilizing Overwatch — an AI tool that “deploys lifelike virtual agents” to “infiltrate and engage criminal networks” — to collect incriminating evidence against anyone from suspected drug and human traffickers, to “radicalized” political activists and “college protesters.”

One example of a “radicalized” AI persona that developer Massive Blue says it has created is one pretending to be a 36-year-old child-free divorced woman, described as outspoken, lonely, and body positive. Her hobbies include baking and, vaguely, “activism.”

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Apple, Google, and Snap accuse Meta of being reckless with their confidential info.

We’re getting started with day three of Meta’s antitrust trial with some controversy. A Snap attorney complains to Judge Boasberg that Meta released slides with inadvertently flawed redactions. He also accuses Meta’s lead attorney of openly referencing Snap’s competitive assessments that should have been private.

An Apple attorney echoes Snap’s charges of “egregious” disclosures, saying Apple can’t be confident that Meta will protect its internal information moving forward. Google’s attorney says its data has been jeopardized by Meta, too.