Day archives: March 30th, 2025

TV Garden

TV Garden: Watch Free Live TV from Around the World on tv.garden. Stream live news, sports, and entertainment—no subscription needed. Multiple channels are available for each country and users may easily switch channels within a country and move on to a long list of channels available from other countries quickly. Good for language skills, and …

Subjects: Education, Internet

Signal Isn’t the Problem: Some Basic Tips for Successful Secure Messaging

PC Mag – “US government officials discussed war plans in a Signal chat, then blamed the leaks on the messaging app. But Signal and other encrypted apps are secure—as long as you use them correctly.Human error is often at the heart of a cybersecurity catastrophe. That’s why, in our private messaging app reviews, we note …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Privacy

Your law firm needs a Situation Room

Via LLRX – Your law firm needs a Situation Room – Jordan Furlong advises law firms that in this chaotic new world order, organizations cannot sit back waiting for the next bombshell to drop. Firms need to anticipate, analyze, and address critical new developments — before they affect the organization and its clients. Furlong highlights the …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Marketing

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

Wired – no paywall – DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse – “The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of …

Subjects: E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

Boston.com: “The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be? When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1,000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend for white-collar workers: Over the past few years, they have seen …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Microsoft

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Privacy, Social Media

Walking Shouldn’t Be So Dangerous in the US

Scientific American – “…According to data analyzed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers in the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, about 20 pedestrians are killed each day in the U.S. by someone driving a car. That was 7,522 pedestrians in 2022. Those researchers note that other countries’ pedestrian fatality rates are going …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Transportation

NOAA removed 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from its website

Union of Concerned Scientist: “Yet another resource that belongs to us, the US public, has disappeared down the Trump administration’s memory hole. I just learned from the valiant Environmental Data and Government Initiative that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has removed the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from https://www.climate.gov (though a data savior has …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Defense, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Wired: “…Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share their latest findings—before those findings had been systematically reviewed or verified. Visit arXiv.org today (it’s pronounced like “archive”) and you’ll still see its old-school Web 1.0 design, featuring a red banner and the seal of Cornell University, the platform’s …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management