The NCAA selection committee revealed its top 16 teams on Saturday and I've never been so happy. My happiness doesn't come from the results displayed; it comes from the fact that committee chairman Keith Gill gave us what I've always been asking for. Clear, concise and logical reasoning behind why each team was seeded where it ended up being seeded. Ultimately, I would love to get a similar breakdown after the actual 68-team bracket is revealed - nothing beats transparency!
OAKLAND Under a haze of secrecy, a county investigation into the death of 8-year-old Sophia Mason whose malnourished body was found decomposing in a basement bathroom has dragged on for nearly three years. Now, even as hints emerge that the 2023 county-ordered probe may finally be wrapping up, child welfare and open governance experts say the delay in completing it raises new alarms about the county's commitment to keeping children safe.
Grok's placement on the government website realfood.gov follows uproar over the chatbot's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children in late December and its spouting of racist and antisemitic content last summer. Other government agencies are also using the chatbot made by xAI, Musk's AI company, but the prominent placement of Grok on realfood.gov over the weekend appears to be one of the first instances of the federal government pointing online visitors to Musk's chatbot.
How do you explain that Harvard-Westlake's boys' soccer team won the Mission League championship, beat fourth-place Sherman Oaks Notre Dame twice by shutouts but ended up being ranked four spots below the Knights in computer rankings? How do you explain Newbury Park's girls' soccer team with a 10-5-2 record and wins over No. 4 Oaks Christian, No. 12 Moorpark and No. 27 Camarillo failing to get an at-large playoff spot?
The resignation of Kitty Calavita and Julie Leftwich from Berkeley's Police Accountability Board (PAB) last month should alarm every resident who believes democracy is more than a ballot box moment.These were not casual departures. Calavita and Leftwich were the two most senior members of the PAB and the last original members who helped carry forward Berkeley's long tradition of civilian police oversight.
Roughly half of U.S. states now have their own rules for driverless cars, creating a patchwork of regulations. Lawmakers say that uneven oversight, combined with several high-profile incidents, underscores the need for uniform federal guardrails that don't stifle innovation yet ensure public safety. Senators cite safety issues, demand more transparency "We need more honesty from the industry so that there is in fact transparency in everything that they know that the American public should know as well," said Sen. Ed Markey, D-MA.
Dear Transparency-Committed Reader, You're not alone. So many of us want decision-making to reflect our collective values (like transparency, care, and shared power), but it's hard to actually put those values into practice. That gap between what we believe and how we decide can be frustrating. And getting stuck in the process is a common concern I hear from groups. I am happy to share, though, that decision-making doesn't have to be a nightmare.
On this page, you can find minutes of all Board meetings for the last five years. We aim to publish the minutes of meetings as soon as we can after they have been formally approved.
Bitwarden is one of the more likable tech companies. It offers a great password manager for free, charges modestly for its paid version, and has mostly stayed in its lane with its focus on security products. So it's disappointing that it isn't being more transparent about the first price hike in its 10-year history. Bitwarden's Premium version now costs $20 per year, up from $10 per year previously.
YouTube has been criticised by broadcasters and advertisers after withdrawing from the UK's main television audience measurement system, just months after agreeing to be measured alongside traditional TV channels and rival streaming platforms. The move follows legal action by YouTube's owner, Google, which sent cease-and-desist letters to Barb and its research partner Kantar Media, blocking access to data used to attribute viewing sessions to individual content creators.
I have CSS code to display SVG files. How to force background as transparent or white? The SVG is already transparent. But SVG files do not contain a background unless one is added in the code or as a shape. An example: @media (min-width: 600px) { .header1 .logo a, .header1 .logo img { background: url(my.svg) left center no-repeat; width: 220px; height: 75px; } }
I hear the same stories again and again. Estimates treated as promises. Plans turned into contracts. Teams punished for being wrong rather than rewarded for learning. Given experiences like those, it's understandable that many teams conclude the solution is to eliminate estimating and planning altogether. I think that's a mistake. Estimating and planning still matter-not because the future is predictable, but because it isn't. They matter because teams and organizations still have to make decisions about what to work on
District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood is calling for more transparency at the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing after he discovered that the department had "lost track" of about $5 million sitting in an account waiting to be used for an affordable housing project in the Tenderloin. The city approved a development project with 85 affordable housing units at 101 Hyde St., a former post office, in 2015. The city approved a development project with 85 affordable housing units at 101 Hyde St., a former post office, in 2015. The building has been in the city's possession for nearly as long: Shorenstein Properties bought the site in 2016 and gave it to the city that year in a deal to fulfill its affordability requirements for a separate project.
Beyond the chart: The demand for AI guidance comes as consumer sentiment sours. The share of US/UK consumers who view genAI as a negative disruptor in the creator economy has nearly doubled, from 18% to 32% since November 2023, according to a November 2025 report from Billion Dollar Boy and Censuswide. Meanwhile, transparency gaps are fueling distrust. 52% of consumers are concerned about brands posting AI-generated content without disclosure, according to a September 2025 report from Sprout Social.
Binning an unwritten law that was never worth the paper it wasn't written on, could be a game-changer Unwritten rules are hypocritical for obvious reasons. Nobody can see them. Verbal questions are different. Anyone can ask them.
I'm at Costco, and this is your annual reminder that if your olive oil doesn't have a harvest date, it's not real. The lot number doesn't matter. Best buy doesn't matter. It has to have, as you can see, a harvest date to be real.
An elected city councilman here has been effectively cut off from City Hall barred from contacting the city manager or staff, stripped of access to his government email and routed through the city attorney for nearly all official business following an investigation whose most critical findings the city has not made public.
As reported by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, reflecting on the present challenges to institutions around accusations of intolerance and hostility to free debate, Garber came down firmly on the side of not debating (bold is mine): "I'm pleased to say that I think there is real movement to restore balance in teaching and to bring back the idea that you need to be objective in the classroom."
The resolution, known as the Creator Bill of Rights, expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that creators and digital workers represent "a distinct and growing class of small businesses and independent economic contributors" who deserve fair treatment, transparency, and economic opportunity in a platform-driven economy. The creator economy is currently valued at $250 billion globally and is expected to reach $480 billion by 2027, according to figures cited in the press release announcing the resolution.
One of the central figures was Michael Burry, a former medical doctor turned hedge fund manager who did something few others did: He read the underlying loan data. What he found wasn't hidden at all. It was right there in the documents risky subprime mortgages, teaser rates poised to reset and assumptions baked into the system. And everyone seemed perfectly comfortable ignoring the fine and alarming print.
The online encyclopedia now holds more than seven million articles and has become a standard guide for anyone seeking information. The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization in San Francisco, California, runs the project with about 700 employees, but Wikipedia still relies entirely on unpaid volunteers to write and edit its articles: hundreds of thousands of people contribute to the site each month, under a set of community-developed rules to deal with disagreements, cut down self-promotion and generate consensus.
