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Shell game: the rule that made hidden owners transparent just died. In early August, Capital One bank asserted in court that it had debanked accounts tied to Donald Trump businesses in 2021 because of account activity that triggered internal money laundering alerts. JPMorgan Chase had also closed Trump business accounts. Less than two weeks later, […]
Data centers were once invisible infrastructure. Now they’re the defining local political fight of the AI era. In December 2022, I was frantically trying to figure out how to incorporate Chat GPT into my undergraduate technical communication class for engineering students while my more normal friends were blithely unaware of the transformation on the horizon. […]
Not one to avoid controversy, President Trump has proposed that civil service employees sign extraordinarily broad non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Supposedly, an employee may refuse to sign but that could lead to dismissal. The Atlantic points out that there’s a reason the federal government hasn’t already implemented NDAs: they aren’t necessary. Employees “who work with classified […]