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Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York: “The swift advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked significant concern that this new technology will replace jobs and stifle hiring. To explore the effects of AI on employment, our August regional business surveys asked firms about their adoption of AI and if they had made …
Privacy Guides: “They all claim “Your privacy is important to us.” How can we know if that’s true? With privacy washing being normalized by big tech and startups alike, it becomes increasingly difficult to evaluate who we can trust with our personal data. Fortunately, there are red (and green) flags we can look for to …
The Verge: “…Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it …
The New Yorker – no paywall: “…The focal point of the department was the checking library, which contained reference books such as Who’s Who in the People’s Republic of China, Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage, and the Physicians’ Desk Reference for Herbal Medicines. (New checkers are advised that you can’t trust books—they tend not to be …
HateWatch – “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using white nationalist imagery and language to recruit new employees and arrest immigrants. A Hatewatch review of DHS social media posts and web content found that the federal agency utilizes white nationalist and anti-immigrant images and slogans in recruitment materials. In addition, while recruitment images feature …
PCMag: “Your smartphone probably holds more personal information about you than any other device you own. So the last thing you’d want to do is hand over all that data to a stranger, especially when you’re traveling internationally. The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution prevents “unreasonable searches and seizures” of personal property but the …
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston – Technology Providers and Financial Stability: Overview of Risks and Regulatory Frameworks By Gene Amromin, Rebecca Chmielewski, Patty Cowperthwait, Cindy Hull, Brett Solimine, Emma Weiss, Kenechukwu E. Anadu, Falk Bräuning, Siobhan Sanders, Amy Chapel, Meeoak Cho, Lorenzo Garza, and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl. June 2025. “Technology-focused Third-Party Service Providers (TPSPs) have become …
Morningstar – “Late last year, David Shor, one of the Democratic Party’s top data scientists, surveyed some 130,000 voters about whether they had a “favorable” or “unfavorable” opinion of Jewish people. Hardly anyone over the age of 70 said their view was unfavorable. More than a quarter of those under 25 did. The question is …
Lifehacker: “There’s one mobile productivity hack that works no matter what you’re trying to do on your phone, or which app you’re in: being able to type faster. Whether you’re filling out a web form or messaging the group chat, getting your text inputted more quickly saves you seconds and minutes that can add up. …
The Atlantic – gift article: “According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the richest of rich Americans pay an average tax rate of 34 percent, higher than any other cohort’s. In reality, as everyone has long known, they pay less than that. A new study by some of the country’s most preeminent economists has finally …
The Atlantic gift article – A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II. “The story we got about World War II is all wrong,” a guest told Tucker Carlson on his podcast two weeks ago. “I think that’s right,” replied Carlson. The guest, a Cornell chemistry professor …
There are eight new articles and seven new columns in the August 2025 Issue: The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health, Part 2 – This is a follow up to Sabrina I. Pacifici’s July 31, 2025 article, The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health. In just one …