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France’s Philippe says Le Pen’s EU proposals would ‘crack open’ bloc
The center-right candidate said at a POLITICO event that his far-right rival was selling the French 'fantasy' plans on the economy.
The surprising psychology of morbid curiosity – podcast
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan has incurred condemnation from human rights groups and politicians on all sides. But according to Coltan Scrivner, an author and psychologist at Arizona State University and expert on morbid curiosity, people are still likely to watch in large numbers. He explains why we are drawn to dark and disturbing content, and Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample how consuming this kind of material can harm observers’ mental health
What Continual Learning Actually Means feat. Ilija Lichkovski from Prime Intellect
continual learning is one hell of a hot topic in 2026 and it’s beautiful because (like consciousness) barely anyone agree on what are we even talking about.
OPM updates terms of service for USAJobs data following user confusion
The Office of Personnel Management again updated its terms of service for data extracted from the federal government’s job board, USAJobs, following user community concerns over ambiguity.
For America.gov, the front door is only as good as the back office
The portal will be what the public sees, but how agencies approach a heavier volume of work behind the scenes will determine its success.
‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers – podcast
Instagrammers have upended the British restaurant scene and amassed followings in the millions. But has their moment already passed? By Stephen Buranyi. Read by Josh Berry Read the text version here Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/longreadpod Continue reading
The fight to switch off your algorithm – podcast
Chantel Contos talks about her campaign against social media algorithms and how it has helped shape a groundbreaking bill in her native Australia to increase regulation of big tech Chanel Contos is in her mid-20s and has already changed Australia once. As she tells Annie Kelly, after she founded Teach Us Consent at university, the advocacy group successfully campaigned to change Australian’s national curriculum to mandate the teaching of sexual consent in schools. Continue reading
SFP#56: Policy and EU: All about the DNA
SFP#56: Policy and EU: All about the DNA Fall is finally here, and so is our next episode for the Software Freedom Podcast! In this episode Bonnie Mehring meets with Dario Presutti, FSFE's project manager working on different policy and legal topics. Together, they talk about software freedom and why the Digital Networks Act (DNA) is an opportunity to gain control over the devices connecting us to the internet.
OPM launches beta AI chatbot for federal workforce data
The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned.
RLMs are Compositional Generalizers with Alex Zhang from MIT
this discussion I had with alex earlier this year re-shaped a lot how I’m seeing these new breed of frontier models that are specialist at coding + multi-agent + long running.
One front door: What OMB’s new Login.gov mandate means for agencies
A former CISO at the Social Security Administration lays out a blueprint for how agencies and vendors should approach government’s new requirements for the single sign-on service.
36.14 - MU Podcast - The Tayos Caves Mystery Part 1
Welcome back to MU! Deep beneath the Ecuadorian jungle, explorer Juan Moricz claimed to have discovered an enormous cave system containing strange architecture, golden artifacts, and a library of ancient knowledge written on thousands of metal plates. From conflicting eyewitness accounts and Father Crespi’s bizarre collection to Erich von Däniken and a massive 1976 expedition involving Neil Armstrong, we follow the Tayos mystery as one extraordinary claim turns into a decades-long obsession nobody has been able to completely settle.
House Dems want DOL’s benefits agency to answer for ‘drastic’ enforcement cuts
Top Democrats on the House Education & Workforce Committee are seeking answers from a Department of Labor component on how significant staff cuts and underfunding have impacted its ability to enforce a critical federal benefits law.
Tech sector pours $2.4B in AI tools, compute credits for Genesis Mission Consortium
Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, among others, are investing resources into the collaborative hub that will work toward identified challenges.
SSA to tighten up service to identity theft victims under new law
Victims of identity theft will soon have a single point of contact at the Social Security Administration after the president signed a bill into law Wednesday requiring the agency to lock in new procedures for handling the misuse of SSNs.
5 Data Security Stories to Know About (September 2026)
Five data security stories to know about.
Jaan Tallinn would like us to survive
Listen now (67 mins) | An early backer of DeepMind and Anthropic makes the case for an AI pause.
CIOs often underestimated investment risks on IT dashboard, GAO says
Chief information officers frequently underestimated risk in IT investments, according to a Government Accountability Office audit of the now-sunsetted federal dashboard that compiled those ratings.
The revolving door for tech officials at Trump’s DHS
IT leaders at the agency have flirted with the boundaries of ethical and legal limits with various ties to federal contractors, government experts say.
VA piloting CLEAR identity verification on its website
While using CLEAR is free and not mandatory, the pilot is “one of the first steps of a larger VA modernization effort” and combats identity fraud when accessing veterans’ benefits.
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