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Grist: “By the time President Donald Trump retook office, lawmakers had announced nearly $700 billion in funding for infrastructure- and climate-related projects under two bills passed during Joe Biden’s administration — the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law. That money was promised to all sorts of community and local projects, from clean energy …
Science. 19 Jun 2025. Vol 388, Issue 6753. Bianca Lopez: “Plastics large and small have become a concerning source of pollution in our waters. Policies to reduce plastic bag consumption are one approach that states and nations have used to curb plastic waste. Using community-collected data from shoreline cleanups, Papp and Oremus assessed the effects …
“Every year, Consumer Reports publishes a car brand report card. We rank automakers based on their vehicles’ average Overall Score—a combination of our road-test scores, safety ratings, and predicted reliability and owner satisfaction data. This provides a definitive number to help consumers see which brands shine and which might be best avoided. We also present …
Via LLRX– Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 21, 2025. 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 …
Above the Law: But There Isn’t A Ton Of Good News For Biglaw Firms That Bent A Knee To Trump: Lots — and lots — of bad news though. These articles discuss partner and associate defections. One important note that may be slowing the rate of movement: “Cadwalader has seen a number (Opens in a …
This Gizmodo article over promises and has other issues, but it is worth the read. The referenced actions also work with ProtonVPN. I do not have YouTubePrime but am otherwise unable to access any videos while using an AdBlocker, with no subscription access. “Without YouTube Premium, you’re doomed to watch ads every few minutes, sometimes …
The DuckDuckGo browser’s built-in Scam Blocker guards against phishing sites, malware, and other common online scams. It’s on by default, so you’re protected as soon as you open the browser. NEW: Scam Blocker now also covers sham e-commerce sites, fake cryptocurrency exchanges, “scareware” that falsely claims your device has a virus, and other sites known …
Cyber Detective – PageCached is a simple and free online service for finding old versions of web pages in search engine caches and web archives. See also Quick Cache and Archive search
TIME: Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers …
The Atlantic no paywall: “The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better…Even without actively seeking out a chatbot, billions of people are now pushed to interact with AI when searching the web, checking their email, using social media, and online shopping. Ninety-two percent of Fortune 500 companies use OpenAI …
dataindex.us – “Monitoring America’s federal data infrastructure from dataset availability and new releases to planned and unplanned changes to collections. We are currently monitoring 23 datasets and have tracked 402 change requests to data collections in the last 30 days. Change Requests – For most data collected from the federal government, all changes, even minor …
Inside Higher Education: “Within days of taking office, the Trump administration began purging federal demographic data—on a wide range of topics, including public health, education and climate—from government websites to comply with the president’s bans on “gender ideology” and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many …