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boingboing: “After we posted about Pawmometer, the free site that reads live weather to flag pavement hot enough to burn a dog’s paws, reader Chris Fiegel wrote in to say he’d built a phone-sized take on the idea. His iOS app, NorthPaw, computes what it calls a “NorthPaw Index” from your dog’s specific biology — …
MakeUseOf – my battery lasts noticeably longer now – “It is easy to assume your smartphone is resting peacefully in your pocket when you aren’t using it, but it is usually working overtime. Silent battery drain is one of the most common issues for phones today. You need to review your app permissions and disable features …
Byte-Pulse: “Anthropic has rolled out Claude Fable 5, positioning it as their most potent AI model yet. They claim that Fable excels in areas like cybersecurity and scientific research, making it a versatile tool for businesses and researchers alike. However, early user feedback paints a different picture, particularly highlighting the model’s struggles with fundamental biology …
Bloomberg: The White House’s Top Science Goal Is Ignorance: “The administration’s actions are seen as a deliberate attempt to stifle science and ignore the reality of climate change, in order to support the fossil-fuel industry and satisfy the climate denialism of Trump’s base. Shutting down scientific inquiry because it discovers things you don’t like is …
Update – “President Donald Trump signed the Secure America Act, Republicans’ flagship immigration bill greenlighting $70 billion to fund federal immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of his term. The package to pay for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection passed out of Congress in the last week after months of debate …
Platformer: “Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she’s leaving her job to create solution for AI’s “messy middle.” Molly Kinder has spent the past three years at the Brookings Institution leading a multiyear project on how generative AI is transforming work. In a recent widely discussed essay, she predicted the coming of what she …
CRS Report R47520. The Voting Rights Act: Historical Development and Policy Background, June 2, 2026. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is one of the most significant elections statutes ever enacted. The law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or language-minority status in registration and voting nationwide. The VRA also provides protections for blind, disabled, or …
Beginning July 6, 2026, the NLM Products and Services listing and search will migrate to Data Discovery. This service is available now and can be accessed here.
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Social Security’s trust fund is now due to run low on money beginning in 2032. And in announcing that new date Tuesday, the government acknowledged that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tax cuts are expected to contribute to the insolvency. The trust fund that pays retiree and survivor benefits is …
“Welcome to Season 8: The News. This 8-part series will explore the deep challenges facing American journalism, and the nation’s news and information crisis. It seems everyone’s mad at the media, but we’ll ask, what’s really wrong with the news? Is it what we think it is? What would a more independent and democratic media look like? By …
The Verge: “A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center” signs going up that, “I’ve seen a lot of these all over …
Today, the U.S. General Services Administration released the Elimination, Optimization and Automation (EOA) Handbook, a practical guide for federal leaders seeking to improve operational efficiency, strengthen mission delivery, and reduce administrative burden through process improvement and emerging technologies. The handbook compiles lessons learned and best practices from implementation efforts launched during the first Trump Administration. …