Day archives: May 7th, 2025

Tariff Tracker: We’re Watching Prices for 11 Products You Might Need to Buy

CNET – “President Donald Trump’s extensive new tariffs are expected to have huge, widespread effects on prices in the US, with more and more companies announcing price hikes for popular products. Recently, Microsoft announced price increases across its Xbox gaming brand, Canon announced that increases for its cameras are coming soon and toymaker Mattel warned of inevitable …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online

Critical Insights from FortiGuard Labs – 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report: “Our latest global threat landscape report uncovers how automation, AI, and stolen credentials are fueling faster, more scalable cyberattacks—outpacing defenders across industries and geographies.” Forbes: Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online – “Imagine having access to 19,030,305,929 passwords that were …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk

Washington Post [no paywall]: “The goal — a centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information — would create a multitude of vulnerabilities, experts say. The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Tired of Traditional Web Search? These Are the Best AI Search Engines We’ve Tested

PC Mag: “Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot (among others) have successfully made AI chatbots mainstream and serve as viable alternatives to standard web search engines. In turn, the standard search engines from those companies (along with alternative ones) have adopted some AI elements. Bing, for example, now offers the Copilot Search feature that shows you …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Don’t Get Burned: 7 Tariff-Beating Tips for Buying Tech in 2025

PC Mag – Concerned about high prices that might come with tariffs? Our experts offer handy buying advice to help you navigate this tricky global trade war.”Uncertainty reigns in global trade, with tensions brought on by the Trump administration’s decision to levy tariffs—taxation based on a percentage of a product’s value—on imports from countries near …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

SUVs Make Traffic Worse And Are More Dangerous Than Cars

Forbes [no paywall] – Two new studies demonstrate some major downsides to upsizing our cars: “Our vehicles have never been bigger or heavier than they are now. Take the Ford F150 truck. Between 1991 and 2025, it got 75cm longer, 20 cm taller, and 483 kg heavier. But it’s not alone; the same trend of …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Transportation

Republican Budget Plan Could Result in Millions Losing Healthcare

The Hill: “The cuts, under consideration as part of a broader push to offset the cost of Donald Trump’s proposed “big, beautiful bill,” would target the very programs that expanded access to care under the Affordable Care Act. From rolling back federal funding for Medicaid expansion to repealing enrollment protections, each option on the table …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine

Chief Justice John Roberts stresses judicial independence amid tensions with Trump

CNN: “Chief Justice John Roberts stressed the importance of judicial independence during public remarks Wednesday, noting that the judiciary’s role as a co-equal branch of government is central to the nation’s political system. “The judiciary is a coequal branch of government, separate from the others with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law, and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research