The CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel is now a “farce,” and calls are growing to cancel its upcoming meeting. arstechnica.com

Infectious diseases physician Fiona Havers, who recently resigned from the agency in protest, said the CDC’s vaccine processes have been “corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before.”

She said:

If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases.

“The federal government has effectively given up on regulating driverless vehicles. That’s good news for Elon Musk.” theverge.com

The Middle East and Africa are hot spots for data center growth. fierce-network.com

“One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.” theregister.com

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun. HR departments are being overwhelmed by “hiring slop” — applicants using AI to bulk-generate resumes. arstechnica.com

The LA Dodgers claim they deterred an ICE raid, but the men in masks claim otherwise. techdirt.com

We’ve been traveling, and I’ve been mostly unplugged from the news during that time. I see we’re going to war in the Middle East again. I’m sure it will go well this time. Fourth time’s a charm, right?

A Republican lawmaker suffered delays receiving care for her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, blames the left. Classic MAGA: Pass a bad law and then blame the people who opposed the law for the problems the law creates. theguardian.com

House staffers can’t have WhatsApp on their devices. The chief administrative officer claims the messaging app is “high-risk.” theverge.com

You sound like ChatGPT: AI is changing how we write and what we sound like when we talk. theverge.com

As ICE Raids Continue, Parts of a Vibrant City Go Empty. Missing vendors, markets of rotting food, and families too frightened to leave home: this is life in Los Angeles now. motherjones.com

Jio: ‘AI is the new UI and APIs are the new KPI’ — The telco discussed its ambitious plan to make AI inclusive and affordable for 1.4 billion Indians, at TM Forum’s DTW Ignite conference. My latest on Fierce Network.

“Let’s make sure that Venice is not remembered as a postcard venue where Bezos had his wedding but as the city that did not bend to oligarchs.” nytimes.com

Forms of Transportation that Were Supposed to Change the World (But Didn’t…). youtu.be

Overheard: “Sometimes the toast falls off the plate and lands butter side up on another plate.”

A friend asked a group of tech journalists the most time we spent at an individual publication. I spent a long time poring over my memory and LinkedIn profile and am still not sure.

Mapping my career path is like working out the timelines of the Back to the Future movies. Or unbending a pretzel.

The Micro Macintosh is a programmable $43 miniature reproduction of the 1986 Macintosh Plus with a 0.85-inch screen that “runs animated images of the Mac OS 7 operating system and a captivating game of Pong.” It “serves as a delightful desktop toy that pays tribute to a bygone era of computing.” tindie.com

California Senator Alex Padilla was assaulted, handcuffed,forced to the ground and detained when he tried to confront Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference. politico.com

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage. Tape is the standard for archival storage, but it has to be rewritten every five years or so, which is expensive. Microsoft and other vendors are working on technologies using etched glass and DNA that could last hundreds or thousands of years. theregister.com

A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule. techdirt.com

Trump overhaul of $42B broadband fund upends states' plans to expand access. arstechnica.com