Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

DOGE dopes may have dumped your Social Security number and info onto the internet

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Whistleblower Warns of Possible Risks to Americans’ Social Security Information   The Government Accountability Project submitted a  prote...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Private companies gather weather info and sell it to Weather Service since Trump budget cuts hobble NWS ability to collect it themselves

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Call it weather grifting, and we could see it coming By Meg Wilcox When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service (NWS) to su...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Round-up of new Rhode Island legislation and how it will affect us

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2025 General Assembly session passed 826 new laws. Here are some highlights By  Uprise RI Staff Uprise RI - Rhode Island's Advocate ...
Monday, August 18, 2025

This Test Tells You More About Your Heart Attack Risk

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Quick and simple test gives you your odds Paula Span   A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and severa...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

What history’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis

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History provides insight into the MAGA mind  Julie Walsh ,  Wellesley College An illustration from ‘The History of Witches and Wizard...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Is ChatGPT making us stupid?

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Duh Aaron French , Kennesaw State University Back in 2008, The Atlantic sparked controversy with a provocative cover story: Is Goo...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The environmental toll of artificial intelligence

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Trump AI plan would “ramp up exploitation” of people and the environment, advocates warn Shannon Kelleher   The Trump administra...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

As Charlestown suffers through unhealthy air, which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous?

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New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale Jun Wang , University of Iowa Wildfire smoke is not j...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Trump 2.0 is deploying new surveillance methods to extend its authoritarian power

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Big Brother Donald Is Watching You Rebecca Gordon for TomDispatch Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landlin...
Friday, July 18, 2025

How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies

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The hidden cost of convenience Many apps, including the weather channel app, send you targeted advertising and sell your personal data by de...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

What Trump’s budget says about his environmental values

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That he doesn't have any? Stan Meiburg , Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe , Indiana University To understand the fe...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans

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They call it "pig-butchering" where YOU are the pig By Cezary Podkul for ProPublica Reporting Highlights Struggling Gatekeepers: ...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

This breakthrough turns old tech into pure gold — No mercury, no cyanide, just light and salt

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How to pull gold out of old computers and cell phones SAFELY Flinders University   Gold recovered from electronic waste in the Flinders ...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Brown University engineers tackle brain injuries with innovative wearable technology

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From kids playing sports to battle damage to soldiers, traumatic brain injury can ruin lives By Juan Siliezar, Brown University Traumatic ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they’re not yours

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You're not being paranoid to believe you're being watch and recorded because you are David Sella-Villa , University of Sout...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Connecticut Senator Blumenthal wants probe into Trump cancellation of Veterans Administration contracts

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Musk's DOGE kids used artificial intelligence to find and kill contracts deemed "Munchable" By Eric Umansky and Vernal Coleman...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Back to war with Canada and "thank you for your attention to this matter"

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A normal day in Trumpworld

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

Why you should think twice before using shorthand like ‘thx’ and ‘k’ in your texts

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Perspective on texting etiquette David Fang , Stanford University My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an anci...

General Assembly approves Victoria Gu to fight cryptocurrency ATM fraud

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Hope it covers Trump’s crypto coin  The General Assembly approved legislation sponsored by Senate Artificial Intelligence & Emerging T...