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Ars Technica: “Smart TVs can feel like a dumb choice if you’re looking for privacy, reliability, and simplicity. Today’s TVs and streaming sticks are usually loaded up with advertisements and user tracking, making offline TVs seem very attractive. But ever since smart TV operating systems began making money, “dumb” TVs have been hard to find. …
Forbes via MSN – AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview. More companies are returning to face-to-face meetings to counter cheating by candidates—and more ominous digital threats. A Japanese video game company has started using pen-and-paper art tests in job interviews to avoid generative AI fraud. A graphic designer at the (unnamed) …
Wired [no paywall]: “Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope. OpenAI has allegedly become more guarded about publishing research that highlights the potentially negative impact that AI could have on …
Todayville: “When Google flipped a digital switch in October 2025, few users noticed anything unusual. Gmail loaded as usual, Chat messages zipped across screens, and Meet calls continued without interruption. Yet, according to a new class action lawsuit, something significant had changed beneath the surface. We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here. Plaintiffs …
Library of Time – “The mission of this website is to create a collection of every calendar with a verifiable date at a specific point in time, as well as to display other methods of timekeeping. It is to be a celebration of time as counted by humans from all walks of life, displaying all …
NBC News: “The Trump administration plans to require travelers from more than 40 countries to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the U.S., according to a notice published Tuesday in the Federal Register. The data would be “mandatory” for new entrants to the U.S., who hail from 42 countries …
“The Data Foundation today announced the launch of the Evidence Act Hub, a comprehensive digital repository designed to preserve and organize strategic plans, reports, and toolkits related to federal data and evaluation activities required under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence Act). This living archive serves as a central resource for researchers, …
Scientific American: “Never heard of the Journal of International Relief or the International Humanitarian Digital Repository? That’s because they don’t exist. But that’s not stopping some of the world’s most popular artificial intelligence models from sending users looking for records such as these, according to a new International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement. …
The Nation’s Data at Risk: 2025 Report – “This report continues ASA’s multiyear effort to assess the state of the U.S. federal statistical system, with a focus on developments in 2025. It highlights challenges and opportunities across five dimensions: staffing and capacity; system structure and funding; innovation; congressional engagement; and stakeholder support. It concludes with …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Do yourself a favor and download iFixit’s new app. The free app from iFixit, a repair and advocacy organization, has one extremely handy feature for any smartphone model: It shows a personalized “death date” of when you should replace your phone’s battery, long before it fails on you. Think of it …
Poynter: “Ann Hermes knew her work as a photojournalist would take her to exotic places. And it has — to discover the food markets of Jerusalem, to see hammocks in Honduras and to witness the Arab Spring in Egypt. But the work that’s closer to home reveals something Hermes is skilled at seeking out. It …
“Civicus downgraded the United States’ civic space rating from “narrowed” to “obstructed,” citing a sharp erosion of fundamental freedoms under a year of Trump-era actions—including militarized crackdowns on protests, expanded ICE deployments, restrictive laws, surveillance and harassment of civil society, suppression of campus speech, pressure on journalists, threats to revoke broadcast licenses, lawsuits against media …
