Mastodawn

Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-held-a-hack-week-to-add-new-controls-to-software-used-by-ice/

Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

WIRED

benzogaga33

5m ago

Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8 https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/simulated-evolution-on-the-pico-8/ #artificial-intelligence #data-visualization

Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8

The articles from these past couple of weeks kinda burned me out. After wrapping it up, I decided I was going to take it easy, do something simple and brainless in a nice comfy high-level language,…

Bumbershoot Software

JorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸38m ago

“Met Police Palantir contract blocked by City Hall”

Great news - long may it continue !

NHS take note

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp1e11px0o

#palantir #bigtech #business #privacy #software #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #police #london #britain #british #nhs #data #us #usa #uspol #uspolitics #trump #donaldtrump #maga #gop #metpolice #metropolitanpolice #met

Met Police Palantir contract blocked by City Hall

City Hall has refused a contract worth up to £50m with the US technology firm Palantir.

BBC News

Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)59m ago

The Democrats’ 2024 autopsy is out — and the pile-on has begun https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21/democratic-party-2024-autopsy-00931754?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #DemocraticParty #Communications #Elections #Politics #Crisis #Grains #Data #War

Zyte 2h ago

Marketers are giving up on the idea of plain-text pages - but llms.txt and Markdown are how we’ll get our docs in the hands of LLMs and developers. https://www.zyte.com/blog/how-we-put-dev-docs-in-ai-spotlight?utm_campaign=blog-posts&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

llms.txt isn’t dead: How we put dev docs in AI’s spotlight

Marketers are giving up on the idea of plain-text pages - but llms.txt and Markdown are how we’ll get our docs in the hands of LLMs and developers.

Zyte

Ronan 2h ago

https://tryopendata.ai/

"The GitHub for datasets.

Every public dataset, unified into one queryable API. Search Census, BLS, FRED, EPA, and 80+ other sources from a single endpoint, with the data already cleaned and kept current."

#data

OpenData - The shared layer for public data

One query interface for 80+ government portals. Census, BLS, EPA, World Bank. Speak the same grammar across every source. Free, open-source, no signup.

OpenData

Zyte 3h ago

From LLM-powered extraction to agentic pipelines, here's how AI is reshaping every stage of the web scraping workflow in 2026 and what it means for your stack. https://www.zyte.com/blog/ai-is-the-new-engine-for-web-scraping?utm_campaign=blog-postsutm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

AI is the new engine for web scraping

From LLM-powered extraction to agentic pipelines, here's how AI is reshaping every stage of the web scraping workflow in 2026 -- and what it means for your stack.

Zyte

Calling all papers 3h ago

24 hours until the CfP for "API World 2026" closes: https://sessionize.com/api-world-2026/

#cfp #conference #api #data #general #developers #coding #ai #engineering #machine learning #innovation

API World 2026: Call for Speakers

API World 2026Sept 1-3, 2026 | Santa Clara Convention Center, CAWe are excited to announce that API World 2026 will be co-located with CloudX and AI T...

Zyte 4h ago

Prompt to Production Scraper for any website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8DJISQYeM?utm_campaign=blog-posts&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web