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Inside Climate News: “The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade responding to hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters, the Pentagon has revealed in a report to Congress. The numbers mean that on any given day, 1,100 National Guard troops on average have been deployed on disaster …
404 Media: “Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was …
Yale Budget Lab: Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs. October 1, 2025 – Download the Data While the occupational mix is changing more quickly than it has in the past, it is not a large difference and predates the widespread introduction of AI in the workforce. Currently, measures …
“The Internet Archive has released a new resource guide to help libraries join in commemorating a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived by the Internet Archive and available for use via the Wayback Machine. This historic achievement represents a collective effort to preserve our shared digital history, and libraries have been at the heart …
ProPublica: “This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help …
HowToGeek: “Mozilla’s Firefox is one of the few non-Chromium browsers that exist these days, and it remains one of the most solid browser options out there. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not allowed to take a page or two from Chrome every so often. Now, it has just got a pretty useful Google feature …
The New York Times Gift Article, Stephen I. Vladeck, a professor of law at Georgetown: “President Trump’s escalating efforts to deploy armed troops onto the streets of several American cities run by Democratic officials are raising a question courts have been all but completely able to avoid since the Constitution was drafted: Can presidents unleash …
Search Engine Journal Perplexity’s Comet browser answers questions directly while you browse. The AI assistant handles research, shopping, and email tasks within the browser. Now free to everyone following a closed beta. Perplexity released its Comet browser to everyone today, shifting from a waitlist to free desktop downloads worldwide. Comet bakes an AI assistant into …
Consumer Reports “(CR) along with Aspen Digital and the Global Cyber Alliance, released the fourth annual Consumer Cyber Readiness Report today, marking the beginning of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The report examines American consumer attitudes on digital privacy and security and steps they are taking to protect themselves from potential threats. The report found that over …
Audubon – “Marvel at the beauty of birds and learn the stories behind our favorite images from this year’s contests featuring, for the first time, photographers from Chile and Colombia. Birds inspire us every day at Audubon. From long-distance migrants on journeys that span the hemisphere to endemic species that live only one place in …
MakeUseOf: “Your inbox might look clean once spam is filtered out, but that doesn’t mean it is private. Marketing emails and newsletters include tracking pixels that call back to the sender when their images load. Each request registers an open with a timestamp and can be linked to earlier opens to build a profile of …
Fast Company: “Docusign redesigned its signatures for an era when fewer people write by hand…Together with Lynne Yun—a New York-based type designer, calligrapher, and founder of the studio Space Type—Bischoff is responsible for the first major update to the platform’s signature options in more than 20 years. For Docusign, a company that has processed a …