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PCMag: “Google can log your searches, watch history, and activity across its various services. That might sound handy for a quick review of your browsing history or revisiting locations on Google Maps, but the company’s data collection practices can also feel very invasive. Your data helps Google serve faster searches and better location tracking, but …
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KARK.com – June 10, 2026 – “A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Thursday in the ongoing legal challenge to Arkansas’s Act 372 of 2023, which would amend the law concerning libraries and obscene materials made available to minors. Opponents say Act 372 would criminalize librarians and expand censorship of library materials. The …
Glass Empire, W.E. Lawrence: “On June 9, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report. He signs as Secretary of Health and Human Services, a trustee. The report fixes trust fund depletion at the fourth quarter of 2032, and federal law then converts that projection into a cut that arrives without a …
Truthout – “Su Casa Liberation Library is part of a flourishing anarchist library scene that includes the Tamarack Library in Oakland, California; Legacy Library on Chicago’s South Side; and the mobile Free Society People’s Library (FSPL) in Portland, Oregon. These autonomous libraries build on the values of the traditional public library — connecting people to …
The Newsground: “Leaked Russian records obtained by The Newsground show that the founders of a technology company embedded in the White House’s official mobile application continued using sanctioned Russian banks after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, its founders continued to travel to Russia, even after one of them complained on Telegram that …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – This is health care’s Uber moment. Every knowledge-based profession may one day reach the point when AI outperforms the human experts. In medicine, that day appeared to come in April. A group of primarily Harvard and Stanford researchers announced the results of a study that pitted ChatGPT against hundreds of …
NOTUS – Records show that the White House Office of Management and Budget last week quietly apportioned $352 million from Trump’s tax cuts law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for “White House Security Measures.” The tax law, which passed with Republican-only votes last summer before Trump tore down the East Wing of the White …
Reuters Institute – “The system allowed a team of OSINT specialists, reporters and computational journalists to accelerate their investigation of Russian nationalists. Any journalist who’s done online investigations knows there’s simply too much evidence for one human to ever collect or investigate. Too often, we are overwhelmed with a flood of information: tens of thousands …
PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer AI is creating a ‘two-track’ labour market: ‘professionalised’ roles (in which AI acts like a force multiplier for experts, requiring more human-intensive skills) see greater growth across headcount and wages than ‘democratised’ roles (in which AI makes the role itself easier for non-experts to perform) Companies most able to …
Library Journal: “AI companies are offering some libraries funding for digitization projects, but archives and special collections are working through how to manage projects responsibly. “Imagine a world where you know things but cannot say where you learned them,” begins “Memory Without Origin,” a paper published in April by University of Virginia (UVA) Dean of …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. “AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before…As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. (Malware, after …
