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Urban Institute, December 31, 2025: “On any given night, hundreds of thousands of people across the country do not have a safe and stable place to sleep. Though this homelessness crisis affects every state, each person and community experiences homelessness differently. As a result, local data about the number of people unhoused and the resources …
The Atlantic – And that could change everything for the tech industry. Alex Reisner: “On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the books they’ve been trained …
The Pragmatic Engineer: “No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry, Gergely Orosz, Jan 06, 2026. “This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete …
The Verge – no paywall: “Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: In one case that experts described as “really …
Washington Post via MSN no paywall: “Imagine you are redesigning your living space. You could hire an interior designer for a few thousand dollars. Or you could ask an artificial intelligence tool such as ChatGPT to do it instead. But can AI actually do the work? See what happened in a study that compared how well …
Via LinkedIn – Augie (August) Ray: “I periodically post about the ongoing risks of COVID19 that most are ignoring. The world changed in 2020 and didn’t go back to “normal.” Over time, repeated COVID infections are affecting the health of more people. We know this not just from the thousands of research studies published on …
How to Geek: “Are you wanting to have the wallpaper on your iPhone change automatically at certain times of the day? It’s actually not as hard as you’d think to do, but it does take a few steps to achieve…”
“Explore the birthplaces of [some of the] ideas that shaped civilization.” Categories are: Science, Technology, Art & Culture, Philosophy, Politics & Exploration, Communication. Includes an “I am Curious” feature – one example response is the Germ Theory of Disease.
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 10, 2026 – 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 increasingly complex and …
words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words — no account required.” It is very relaxing.
Colossal: “Billed as the world’s largest open access digital archive dedicated to life on Earth, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is comprised of animal sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and various scientific research collected from hundreds of thousands of journals and libraries around the globe. In an effort to share information and promote collaboration to combat …
Jeff Danziger Cartoon – Don’t be fooled by the old kids’ plush toys trick
