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ZDNET – Lance Whitney: “Feeling pain at the pump lately? I certainly am. With war in Iran affecting oil supplies, gas prices are on the rise again. After declining over the past year, the price we pay to fuel our cars has now risen more than $1 per gallon in the US, reaching on average …
Business Insider “ChatGPT can code and tutor. Now, contractors are helping the system to become ever more specialized in niche areas like animal husbandry, agriculture, music composition, and even commercial flying, documents show. Under Project Stagecraft, as it is internally known at data-labeling startup Handshake AI, freelancers are being paid at least $50 an hour …
“Electricity prices rose faster than overall inflation last year. Yet at the local level, it’s been difficult to know why. Is it data centers? Renewables? Aging infrastructure? Or something else more mysterious? Everyone in the political system — including senior Trump officials — wants to blame their favorite energy bugbear. But if we actually want …
ZDNET – “This free privacy tool gave me answers. Data is gold, and some companies go to great lengths to collect it, store it, and sell it. But you can put an end to it. [Note – sort of] There’s a service called Global Privacy Control that offers extensions and/or links to browsers and apps …
The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8 – This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series with a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are …
Reddit – Data is Beautiful – Global-Thought-1049 Sources: Zillow Home Value Index (typical home tier, 35th–65th percentile), Census ACS 5-year income distributions (16 brackets per ZIP), county property tax rates (Census ACS), state homeowners insurance averages (MoneyGeek). Methodology: For each of 26,000 ZIP codes, I used the full Census income distribution, not a single median …
CRS Report: R48887. Publication Date: 03/26/2026 – U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, have sparked a wide-reaching regional conflict, with ongoing U.S. and Israeli air operations in Iran and Iranian retaliatory strikes on a range of targets in a number of countries and threats and attacks that have largely halted maritime …
The Guardian – “The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found. By being the largest carbon emitter in history, the US has caused greater harm to …
The U.S. Postal Service filed notice today with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a time-limited price change to better align its costs of transportation with the market. This temporary price adjustment will provide needed flexibility for the Postal Service by helping to ensure that the actual costs of doing business are covered, as required …
The Atlantic Gift Article: “Whenever and however America’s war with Iran ends, it has both exposed and exacerbated the dangers of our new, fractured, multipolar reality—driving deeper wedges between the United States and former friends and allies; strengthening the hands of the expansionist great powers, Russia and China; accelerating global political and economic chaos; and …
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8 – This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series wiith a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. Since the 1990s, the public …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, March 29, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Five highlights from this …
