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Today’s clicks can reveal tomorrow’s breakthroughs

The trail of likes, shares and downloads we leave across the internet could help predict successful innovations years in advance.

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Aug 11 • 9:54 AM EDT • Science • news.cornell.edu
Beloved bald eagle Jackie dies after health battle and 'critical' illness

Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle of Big Bear Valley, has died after a weekslong health battle.

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Aug 10 • 4:04 PM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx Celebrates 10 Years of Baby-Friendly Excellence After Prestigious Re-Designation Through 2032

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx is celebrating a decade of Baby-Friendly excellence at its North Central Bronx location. It recently

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Aug 10 • 11:45 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
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A Blog, If We Could Keep It

In 1797, a Philadelphia socialite asked Benjamin Franklin, of the new American nation, “What have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Reader, Off Tackle Empire makes no claim to be important; rather, it is a silly place on the internet. But I hope you’ll indulge me at least that introduction in the hopes of […]

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Aug 10 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
No, Usher has not been cloned despite bizarre internet theory: ‘They can’t clone this’

“AI ain’t that advanced,” the singer wrote on social media.

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Aug 9 • 6:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • nz.news.yahoo.com
Perez Hilton's mental health crisis tests the limits of empathy

Following Perez Hilton's shocking livestream, the internet is grappling with how to find compassion for a man who once was so cruel.

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Aug 8 • 8:45 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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MetroPlusHealth Achieves 4-Star Medicare Advantage Rating

MetroPlusHealth, New York City’s high quality, affordable health plan, announced today that its Medicare Advantage plans have been awarded a 4-Star rating

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Aug 7 • 10:49 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment

Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.

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Aug 6 • 9:16 PM EDT • Technology • wired.com
OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor and Vercel launched Agent Plugins, an open standard letting an agent extension run across ChatGPT, Copilot and more.

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Aug 6 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • thenextweb.com
Texas rural clinics turn to telehealth

Clinics with better internet connections are now offering telehealth services to patients who can’t do it from their homes.

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Aug 6 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • texastribune.org
Carrie Underwood's return to 'Sunday Night Football' sends internet into a frenzy

Fans are split on Carrie Underwood's return to Sunday Night Football, with some pushing for Ella Langley while others demand a Super Bowl halftime show.

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Aug 6 • 10:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com
Snoop Dogg and Backstreet Boys’ Kevin Richardson meet after ‘separated at birth?’ twin meme

For years, the internet has said Snoop Dogg and Kevin Richardson look alike. Here’s what happened when they were photographed together: ‘It finally happened… iykyk’

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Aug 5 • 10:05 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Unveils Art Exhibit for Behavioral Health Patients with Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Bronx, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi’s Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Center (CATC) unveiled a new art exhibit from NYC Health + Hospitals’ art

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Aug 5 • 3:55 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
The Business of Helping the Ultra-Wealthy Vanish From the Internet

A growing industry now sells executives and high-net-worth clients something increasingly difficult to secure on their own: a smaller digital footprint.

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Aug 4 • 6:37 PM EDT • Business • observer.com
SpaceX quarterly revenue surges in debut results on strong growth in its Starlink business

SpaceX reported on Tuesday a 92% rise in revenue for the April-June quarter, in its first earnings since going public, buoyed by strong growth in its Starlink satellite-internet and AI businesses.

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Aug 4 • 4:05 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
SpaceX quarterly revenue surges in debut results on strong growth in its Starlink business

SpaceX reported on Tuesday a 92% rise in revenue for the April-June quarter, in its first earnings since going public, buoyed by strong growth in its Starlink satellite-internet and AI businesses. The company's stock has declined 8% since its record-breaking initial public offering in ‌June that valued the company at about $1.75 trillion. The stock could face additional pressure from the expiry of SpaceX's post-IPO lock-up period starting on Thursday, which may unleash ​a wave of insider and early-investor shares on the market.

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Aug 4 • 4:05 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Inside The Heartthrob Industrial Complex

Streaming, social media, and luxury brands have changed how Hollywood creates heartthrobs. Inside the formula behind today's biggest internet crushes.

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Aug 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • nylon.com
OpenAI hosted creators at a luxe retreat. The internet isn't charmed.

Over the weekend, influencers posted optimistic videos of AI after attending an OpenAI-led content creator retreat.

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Aug 3 • 5:17 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.

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Aug 3 • 8:10 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
School Smartphone Bans Show No Effect on Youth Mental Health

Following a decade of declining youth mental health, many states have attempted to limit children’s access to social media and the internet by banning smartphones in schools. In new research, Henry Saffer finds no evidence that in-school smartphone bans have any effect on the screentime or mental well-being of young Americans.

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Aug 3 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • promarket.org
Is all publicity good publicity for the WNBA?

You might not know it if you’re just a general sports fan living in the age of the internet, but beyond the off-court drama involving Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham following comments she made about transgender athletes in an interview with ESPN nearly two weeks ago, the WNBA is hitting the home stretch of its…

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Aug 2 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Anthropic says its AI models also broke out and hacked other companies

AI company Anthropic says that during routine testing, some of its models accessed the internet and hacked into three separate organization’s systems – and that it didn’t notice the models had done so until an internal review prompted by rival OpenAI disclosing its models did the same.

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Jul 30 • 10:09 PM EDT • Business • cnn.com
The disc is not the game: Physical releases increasingly require extra downloads

DoesItPlay tracks the many "physical" games that don't work without the Internet.

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Jul 30 • 4:12 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Day in the Life with Andre Jordan and Jose Capo

In our newest installment of Day in the Life, this photo essay features Andre Jordan, Peer Counselor and Jose Capo, Addiction Counselor who deliver services from our S.H.O.W. mobile unit...

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Jul 30 • 4:02 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ 🚀 Subscribe to PN 🚀 The Trump regime is trying to usher in a “Golden Age in Science” where scientific research is run like a Trump family business, artificial intelligence is all that matters, profit is everything, and expertise is for chumps. Or at least that’s the vision emerging from a new 123-page “Report to the President” from Michael Kratsios, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In a normal administration, you could probably skip over learning about a science policy document — but this is no normal administration, and this is no normal science policy document. Instead, it’s Trump’s attempt to end the actual golden age of science that was kicked off in 1945 with the publication of '“The Endless Frontier” by Vannevar Bush. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) [ Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) Liz Dye · Jul 29 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) Bush, at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s request, laid out a vision of federal support for science that centered on funding universities to do basic research, saying that as long as those institutions were “vigorous and healthy and their scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems in Government, in industry, or elsewhere.” Kratsios’s report is supposed to be the successor to Bush’s, and even apes the format, but this isn’t really a document about science policy. It’s one about ending science research as we know it in favor of shoveling cash at big tech companies. While it might be temping to wave this away as an aspirational policy document, Trump has already begun to shift billions in research funds to AI projects and has taken a hatchet to science funding across the board. He’s teed up the shift Kratsios proposes here, and since neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem inclined to stop him from doing whatever he wants with taxpayer money, it isn’t doomering or hyperbole to say we are staring down the barrel of a world where the only “science” the government intends to support is for-profit tech and defense advancements. Science for dummies Part of how you can tell this isn’t a document about science is that you are immediately faced with an absolute wall of business-speak of the worst sort. Did you know we must “tightly couple our science and technology enterprises to ensure that groundbreaking ideas invented in the United States are rapidly prototyped, tested, manufactured, and scaled domestically”? You do now! That tone isn’t surprising, because Kratsios has no background in science or research. He has a bachelor’s in political science and spent most of his career working for Peter Thiel at Thiel Capital. After a stint in the first Trump administration as Chief Technology Officer, where he also did not do any science, Kratsios was tasked in 2020 with overseeing the Pentagon’s research budget for a brief time, a position that, as the Wall Street Journal put it, “carries a great deal of power in terms of dictating investment allocations.” He spent the Biden years at Scale AI as “head of strategy,” which you will also note is neither a science nor a research job. But Scale AI has contracts with the Department of Defense and, as the Washington Post wrote in 2023, “has been aggressively pitching itself as the company that will help the US military in its existential battle with China.” And now you have the necessary background for our new golden age, which is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI. A note from Aaron: Working with brilliant contributors like Lisa takes resources. If you aren’t already a paid subscriber, please become one to support our work. 👇 Subscribe In a genuinely galling move, Katsios spends a lot of time slamming universities because of “administrative burdens on researchers” and the “well-documented inefficiencies” in academia, the message being that those damn universities waste the time of amazing researchers with paperwork. Except it’s the administration that is attempting to impose inefficient, unnecessary burdens on those researchers with a proposed Office of Management and Budget rule that would require senior political appointees to approve every science grant and ensure it aligns with Trump’s personal priorities. Researchers would also have to seek prior government approval to attend conferences or publicize their research. And political appointees could terminate any grant at any time if they feel like it. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) [ The murder of expertise ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) Lisa Needham · Jun 11 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) But when it comes to AI, we’re going to “restore permissionless innovation.” The report proposes to give lucky ducky innovators a pile of cash up front for grants lasting five years or longer, saying “awards should be fully-funded in year one, with all resources earmarked upfront, to minimize administrative burdens and reduce pressure for researchers to generate intermediate results to secure continued funding.” Yeah, wouldn’t want to have to make the Very Special Tech Bros show results or get money parceled out year by year like the plebes at universities. The report also proposes that we should have “fast grants” with “simplified applications requiring just a few pages of writing” because that is definitely how science works, just writing a bit off the dome and getting some cash. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) [ Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) Paul Waldman · July 29, 2025 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) Oh, and we should have prizes and challenges, where multiple teams compete. The proposed prizes include incentives like “advance procurement commitments,” which means the federal government agrees to buy whatever is being developed. There’s also “regulatory fast-tracking,” making sure all those great AI thingies don’t have to wait too long to be unleashed on a market. These aren’t incentives to do science. These are incentives to develop things with tax dollars that you can then sell to the government for more tax dollars. In the suggestion that might be the most unhinged, the most very opposite of how both government and research work, our new age will include “golden tickets.” That’s where an individual reviewer in an agency — yes, just one person — can “recommend unconventional proposals that may not pass consensus-driven review panels” because somehow this will “surface valuable ideas too divisive for committees and attract higher quality reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent scientific judgment.” Yes, that’s saying that a random person in an agency should be able to shovel money at some idea even if it can’t pass a review panel, and that the opportunity to do so will attract better employees because apparently all the best minds in science are chomping at the bit to be allowed to unilaterally fund AI research based on their personal vibes. But that isn’t at all how actual science works, and actual scientists aren’t unhappy about review panels. They work collaboratively, not siloed in some secret race to create the next AI chatbot. A 2020 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research examined whether peer review panels succeed in helping agencies predict which research ideas will best advance science. Peer review was better at finding “diamond in the rough” applicants than a single government program official. How about that. Trump always wants a taste It’s painfully clear that what Katsios is trying to do here is turn the whole of government science research and funding into the sort of “move fast and break things” paradigm that is the hallmark of big tech. That method works to line the pockets of tech executives, but it isn’t science. There’s a reason the government funds different kinds of research than private tech companies do. What Katsios either fails to understand or deliberately ignores is that the federal government is the main funder of basic research precisely because it can take a long time for it to bear fruit and is not intended to be profitable as such. “Basic” here does not mean rudimentary or simple, but rather research that is designed to advance scientific knowledge instead of achieving a specific outcome or product. Big tech companies don’t widely fund that sort of research, because it doesn’t make them money. Industry dollars account for only about 20 percent of basic research funding, while the government contributes around 60 percent. Big tech companies and startups do, however, rely on and benefit from that basic research. A 2019 study found that 35 percent of all patents obtained by venture-backed startups from 1976 to 2016 cited federally supported research. Basic research funded by the NIH contributed to every single drug the FDA approved from 2010 to 2016. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) [ The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) Noah Berlatsky · Jul 27 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) Unlike inventing the next ChatGPT, actual science is slow and iterative. Government funding of research that, on its face, would not appear to lead to any big new invention is actually what underpins those big new inventions. If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide, and we wouldn’t have Ozempic. If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic across computer servers. The report assiduously ignores that a symbiotic, profitable relationship between the federal government, universities, and private companies already exists. Each federal research dollar generates about $1.50 to $3.00 in long-term economic benefits. The $36 billion the government awarded in NIH research funding in fiscal year 2025 generated $94 billion in new economic activity. Trump’s proposed new golden age is intended to strip those billions from universities, resulting in the dismantling of departments and the shuttering of labs. But Katsios has a plan for that: Universities should just become trade schools to churn out no-show STEM degrees! “Require universities and community colleges to embed practical technical training and externships into STEM curricula. Let hands-on experience and industry credentials count toward degrees.” It’s quite the feat to, on the one hand, strip schools of funding for scientific research while simultaneously demanding to control what is taught and, oh, also, colleges need to give degrees to employees at big tech companies just for being employees at big tech companies. The new golden age would also exacerbate the brain drain Trump’s policies have already caused. Nature found that in the first quarter of 2025, US scientists submitted 32 percent more job applications abroad than in 2024. A March 2025 poll by Nature of roughly 1,600 scientists found that over 1,200 said they were considering leaving the country. Europe is investing $565 million to make it a “magnet for researchers” and provide funding for scientists who relocate. The new golden age is also about embedding Trump’s xenophobia into the fabric of American science. The report complains of an “over-reliance on foreign students” that “creates a security challenge our institutions are ill-equipped to address” and that a “reliance on foreign talent sidelines American students.” This is, to put it mildly, nonsense. International students pay far higher tuition and often receive no financial aid. Their tuition dollars are what make it possible for American students to get financial aid. In the 2023-2024 school year alone, international students contributed $43.8 billion to the US economy and supported over 378,000 jobs. Those 1.1 million international students accounted for only six percent of the total number of students in higher education that year, but were such an economic engine that for every three international students, one job was created or supported. It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities and their leading role in scientific research is that there is no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving millions and billions to Silicon Valley types who, in turn, give him millions in cash. There’s no way for his children to invest in universities that the government then gives no-bid contracts to, fattening the family’s bottom line, which is pretty much the Trump sons’ current venture capital practice. Trump and Katsios’s view of science is narrow, cramped, and wrong. We’re not in a crisis, we’re not a failed state. We’ve been a science superpower for decades, and the only thing that threatens that is Donald Trump. Tech bros are already living high off the hog in this administration. They don’t need any more of our tax dollars. Hopefully this new golden age never comes to pass. Thanks for reading Public Notice. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share We’ll be back with more tomorrow. If you appreciate today’s PN, please do your part to keep us free by signing up for a paid subscription. 🚀 Subscribe to PN 🚀 Thanks for reading, and for your support.

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Jul 30 • 8:12 AM EDT • Science • publicnotice.co
Tested: Google SynthID works great, but labeling AI content may be a losing game

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

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Jul 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
The Science Behind the AI Panic Is Shakier Than You Think

A column by Sascha Lobo Is AI making us dumb? So asked DER SPIEGEL on its cover a while ago. After a few weeks of recovery and a therapeutic intervention with the help of my AI, I feel able to respond. That’s a bit unfair, of course; the article itself is more nuanced than the loud cover, the image of a schoolkid with dull prompt questions, or the subtitle: “AI is conquering the schools, and educators fear a disaster.” The short answer to “Is AI making us dumb?” is: no. The long answer is more interesting, and even carries a preliminary glimmer of the spectacular. Unfortunately, it requires a detour into the sphere of artificial intelligence, into the mogul-field terrain of technology assessment, the attention economy, and the destructive virus of cultural pessimism. Along with narrowing the scope to AI’s effects on education and work rather than on intelligence. Because the honest version of the question would be: Does AI help us learn and work, or not? Generative AI, which set off the still-ongoing hype with ChatGPT, has only existed in relevant distribution since late 2022, early 2023. For a technology-driven transformation of people and society, that is extremely short. For that reason alone, research is still in its infancy. And technology assessment is not a fast discipline anyway. Prominent voices from Elizabeth Eisenstein to RAND to Tom Wheeler say we still cannot conclusively judge the consequences of the printing press. Its invention is a mere 580 years back, and some scholars would rather not circulate assessments that might have to be retracted in two or three hundred years. We’re Going Through Growing Pains A phenomenon that already caused upheaval in social media research makes serious assessment of AI’s consequences even harder: the “moving target” problem of LLM-ology, as the linguist Sean Trott called it in 2025. AI develops so quickly and so unpredictably that researchers often end up studying snapshots of the past. There are concepts, from morphological analysis to anticipatory governance, for keeping research, planning, and regulation halfway meaningful anyway. But even with those, universally valid statements are rare. DER SPIEGEL - The German View is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe We should therefore treat findings about the interplay between humans and AI as far more procedural and situational. Unfortunately, this challenge comes at the worst possible time. We are going through growing pains: AI’s everyday impact has grown very large very fast, and with it the longing for guidance. Annoyingly, the body of solid knowledge has not exploded along with it. Experts cannot be moved to broad consensus on even banal statements about AI. Sascha Lobo, born in 1975, is an author and strategy consultant focusing on the internet and digital technologies. Together with Jule Lobo, he explores the debates of the day in the podcast “Feel the News – Was Deutschland bewegt” (”What Moves Germany”). Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says software developers are dying out. Bill Gates considers coders one of only three professions that will survive the AI tsunami. Top tech economists find virtually irrefutable arguments both for and against an AI bubble. The same naturally applies to the structurally youth-hostile debate over whether AI is good or bad for young people. The gap between the demand for insight and the supply of solid knowledge creates an orientation vacuum. This vacuum of AI cluelessness is filled, as the attention economy described by Georg Franck in 1998 would have it, with half-knowledge (funnily enough, often AI-generated), marketing, and self-marketing. After all, infinite money is at stake, along with academia’s best current shot at global fame. But this iridescent froth of interpretation operates more by the algorithmic principles of the digital public sphere than by seriously earned insight. That is why dramatized, fear-feeding claims about AI are so promising. It tempts parts of academia into distorted drivel, and parts of the media then sensationalize the published drivel once more. Was the Research Aimed at a Desired Result? How badly this can influence academia and public perception is demonstrated by one of the most-discussed studies on AI’s effects: “Your Brain on ChatGPT.” The MIT study by Nataliya Kosmyna also gets plenty of space in the SPIEGEL cover story. What was measured and interpreted: lower brain activity in people who write with AI assistance, compared to people who only google or write without any tools. As is common with preprints, the study has not yet been peer-reviewed, and it contains substantial weaknesses that experts have sharply criticized. The first round had 54 participants in three groups, the second only 18, who reportedly also came from MIT’s own orbit. There was no preregistration (committing in advance to what you want to find out with which data). In their analysis, Stanković et al. even discovered an opposite effect that the study does not further explain. Some measurement data has not (yet) been published. And the EEG analysis method used is considered too imprecise to support such far-reaching conclusions. The biggest criticism, though, is the suspicion of an activism-driven study. In an interview with Time, lead author Kosmyna said she published the study immediately, rather than after full peer review, because she feared politicians might otherwise decide to put ChatGPT in kindergartens. She considers that absolutely harmful. It is legitimate to hold such a view. It just seems unscientific to approach a study with it, and then to design the setup so that the chance of a fitting desired result remains as high as possible. Ideologies Collide It is not easy to separate genuine AI insights from studies that trivialize and weaken well-founded AI criticism. The same goes for the opposing, AI-enthusiastic narratives, because the pro-AI side works against it with billions in resources. Ideologies collide, fed by egos, PR strategies, moral posturing, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Doomsday marketing makes the search even harder: AI companies can profit from warnings about the dangers of AI, whether through the notoriety of apocalypse narratives or because, in some target groups, danger translates into power. Some seemingly negative findings are therefore quite welcome in the AI industry. If you try to get at the findings presumably less influenced by interest groups, the picture in education seems relatively clear: AI can improve educational outcomes when the right AI is used the right way, namely pedagogically. Simply dumping an AI chatbot into a classroom, by contrast, accomplishes little. Huge surprise. But something else is also obvious: whether they are allowed to or not, kids use AI for school, which is why the controlled integration of AI tools into education is, in the medium term, entirely without alternative. In the world of work, the landscape of findings is more complex and requires more differentiation. A series of serious studies points to an AI effect that suits neither the alarmists, regulation fetishists, and AI opponents, nor the trillion-dollar corporations with their armada of paid scientists, PR professionals, and ecosystems: working with AI helps the inexperienced (at least for now) considerably more than it helps the pros, in certain fields of work, and provided they know how to use it correctly. Missing Domain Knowledge Among the experienced, the professionals, and the high flyers, by contrast, despite frequent time savings, partially negative effects and new problems are emerging. Take the jagged frontier problem: AI solves task A brilliantly and fails completely at task B, even though both look similar even to professionals. Or the verification-cost problem, in which AI’s greater productivity gets eaten up by the enormous effort of checking its output. Or the illusion of competence, because AI makes new domains seem easily penetrable, until you painfully discover that deep domain knowledge is missing. Taken as a whole, the effects of working with AI do lean positive. But the promise that AI works as a turbocharger for everyone and boosts practically everything simply refuses to materialize. The AI magic the world has been feeling since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 has so far barely shown up in most companies’ numbers. The consulting firm McKinsey has coined a term for this, the “gen AI paradox,” and believes that work processes and corporate structures would have to be rebuilt quite fundamentally to realize AI’s benefits at scale. Reuters just reported that only 3.3 percent of Microsoft’s customers have subscribed to the AI package Copilot. That may be down to the product; in other areas we continue to see soaring successes and new AI triumphs. But after the first quarter of 2026, disillusionment is the word for all too many AI projects at traditional companies: because the promised revolution of AI agents has so far failed to arrive or been postponed, and because of the leveling effect that many of the studies cited here suggest. Against Inequality The societal effects, on the other hand, appear rather encouraging. Many previous technologies operated on the Matthew principle, named for the Gospel verse about giving to those who already have: they tended to reward the more competent and more privileged. AI, however, seems more often to have an equalizing effect once a threshold of access and education is crossed. Some anecdotal insights point in this direction, for example, how an unemployed man in Leipzig successfully defended himself in court in 2025 against fraud accusations from Germany’s federal employment agency — without a lawyer, armed only with ChatGPT. The AI made mistakes and cited invented court rulings, but in the end the man walked away unpunished. And a key capability of artificial intelligence is its capacity to learn: set up correctly and fed with data, it can keep getting better. It is a question of time, or more precisely of AI innovations and training data, until even free AI chatbots write better legal briefs than law graduates with perfect exam scores. Whether that will make anyone dumb is something the world’s press will surely inform us of in due time. Subscribe Leave a comment

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'Don't Make Me Think' author Steve Krug says social media is terrible

Steve Krug invented the frictionless internet with his book "Don't Make Me Think." Now he's in the frictionmaxxers' corner.

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Jul 29 • 4:19 AM EDT • Technology • businessinsider.com
The Internet Can't Decide if Netflix's #1 Movie Is Hilarious or a Total Miss

The internet can’t seem to agree on Netflix’s newest chart-topping comedy. Find out what viewers are saying about the film everyone is watching here.

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Jul 28 • 10:48 AM EDT • Entertainment • purewow.com
What your internet provider, websites and advertisers see

Your internet provider, websites and advertisers can track your browsing activity even without you posting online. Here's how to limit what they see.

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Successfully Performs Its First Breast Tumor Cryoablation Procedure

NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County has successfully performed its first breast tumor cryoablation procedure, marking a significant milestone in advancing

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Jul 27 • 12:13 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
NYC Health + Hospitals Named on 2026 List of World’s Top Disability Inclusive Businesses

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that it has been recognized as a World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business based on its performance on the

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Andy Burnham and the rise of ‘aura farming’ in politics

Is “aura farming” the new political superpower? There are some days in TV news when you find yourself standing in the middle of a farm, surrounded by baby goats, trying to explain internet slang. Subscribe This was one of those days. There I was, in wellies, trying to unpack aura farming - a Gen Z term for carefully cultivating your image online so that you look effortlessly cool, authentic and charismatic. The trick, apparently, is that it can’t look like you’re trying too hard. Which, I’ll admit, felt slightly ironic as we filmed an entire report on a farm purely because the word farming is in the title. ‘Shaped by algorithms’ Whether you like it or not, politics increasingly feels like it’s being shaped by algorithms as much as manifestos. Take Andy Burnham. Since arriving at Number 10, he’s been impossible to miss online. One minute he’s out for a casual jog with Mo Farah. Next he’s announcing policy alongside TikTok high priestess Bus Aunty. His social media paints a very deliberate picture: less polished Westminster operator, more bloke from the North who just happens to be running the country. It’s not accidental. Burnham’s “King of the North”, New Order-loving persona has become part of a carefully constructed political brand. Authenticity is now something politicians work incredibly hard to make look effortless. But Burnham isn’t inventing this playbook. Like so many of us doomscrolling on an evening, he’s been influenced online. The digital strategy of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, pictured above right, has become a case study in viral political communication, and some of the people behind that campaign have recently been advising the Labour Party in Britain. Their message is simple: if you want to reach younger voters, you need to show up where they already spend their time. Embracing content creators And increasingly, that doesn’t mean traditional news interviews (awkward). It means speaking to content creators like Max from The Career Ladder, whose channels reach around 20 million followers worldwide. His interview with Burnham, pictured below, was posted almost immediately after he became Prime Minister. What struck me wasn’t just the audience size, but something Max told me afterwards: many people in the comments said they’d discovered Britain had a new Prime Minister through his interview. Think about that for a moment. Not through rolling news. Not through newspapers. Through a creator they were already following while scrolling. Share That’s a profound shift in how political information reaches people, one that’s been gathering momentum for some time. It also explains why politicians are embracing content creators and spending millions on digital marketing. Of course, this isn’t unique to one party. ‘Personality before policy’ In many ways, the right were quicker off the mark in building their aura online. Donald Trump built much of his political identity on social media. Nigel Farage remains one of Britain’s strongest political performers on TikTok. Politicians across the spectrum now understand that personality often reaches people before policy does. During a six-week UK general election campaign alone, overall digital ad spending routinely tops £11m. Share Channel 4 News Former Number 10 social media adviser Andrew Wong put it well when he told me that “vibes” can help someone get noticed, but they only work if they’re rooted in a genuine personality. Force it, and audiences spot it instantly. The bigger question is whether internet charisma can backfire on you - especially when you’re Prime Minister. Because behind Burnham’s carefully curated videos is a veteran politician with decades of Westminster experience. The spontaneity is produced. While the authenticity may be genuine, it’s managed. That’s not necessarily a criticism. It’s simply the reality of modern political communication. Aura farming alone is not enough to harvest change. But in the age of algorithms, winning attention may be the first battle. Subscribe Share Channel 4 News Leave a comment

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OpenAI claims its artificial intelligence gained access to the Internet on its own and breached a ‘partner’

The technology company claims the incident stemmed from a cybersecurity test gone wrong, where its application escaped a closed environment and broke into an external database to complete its task of being an elite hacker

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AT&T Business Named Visionary Leader by Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan recognized AT&T Business as a Visionary Leader in Dedicated Internet Access, Ethernet Services, and Global Enterprise Network Services.

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Celebrates Inaugural Ceremony of Kings CARES, Strengthening Support for Survivors of Domestic and Gender-Based Violence

NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County celebrated Kings CARES with an inaugural ceremony, recognizing the hospital's survivor-centered program that has

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NYC Health + Hospitals’ NYC Care Program Starts ‘Light The Way’ Truck Outreach Initiative To Promote Health Care Access

New York, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals’ NYC Care program today announced the return of the city-wide ‘Light the Way Truck’ outreach initiative. Starting in

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What China's internet is saying about Moonshot's hot new Kimi model

Just days after launching Kimi K3, Moonshot AI temporarily suspended new subscriptions, saying demand had overwhelmed its computing capacity.

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Why Mitch McConnell's health has the internet so confused

As conspiracy theories swirl about Sen. Mitch McConnell, experts say it's normal to wonder, but health speculation can be harmful in some cases too.

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"Professional lurker" Todd Howard reappears on internet forums following Bethesda's Fallout and Elder Scrolls announcements to thank fans for their support

Reddit is apparently a font of inspiration for Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard, and he's back being active there again.

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Rescued bald eagle may be internet-famous Jackie

Friends of Big Bear Valley is working with rescue organizations to monitor the situation.

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Stocks to Watch: Alibaba, Ryanair, AMC Entertainment, Micron

↗️ Alibaba (BABA, HK:9988): Shares in the Chinese internet giant rose after it previewed its new AI model, which it said is second onl

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Day in the Life: Sea View Grounds Crew

For this Day in the Life photo essay, we went to NYC Health + Hospitals/Sea View on Staten Island to meet the people who bring our outdoor spaces to life....

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George Santos responds to body-shamers after ‘Special Forces’ cast photo drops: ‘Omg internet yes I’m fat’

George Santos called out body-shamers who ripped apart his and other ‘Special Forces’ contestants’ cast photos.

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Completes $7 Million Modernization of Emergency Department CT Suite

New York, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue today announced the completion of its new Emergency Department computed tomography (CT) suite with the

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Successfully Performs Its First Sensation-Preserving Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy

Brooklyn, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County successfully performed the hospital's first sensation-preserving nipple-sparing mastectomy. The

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MetroPlusHealth Achieves Best-Ever CAHPS Ratings

New York, NY – MetroPlusHealth, New York City’s high quality, affordable health plan, today announced its strongest-ever performance in the Fall 2025

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New Chaplaincy Program for Prenatal and Postpartum Care Launches at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced the launch of the Trauma-Informed Maternal Health Chaplaincy Volunteer Program, a new volunteer opportunity for

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Women Leaders of NYC Health + Hospitals Named to Becker Healthcare's List of Women CEOs

Becker’s Healthcare has named eight women CEOs from NYC Health + Hospitals to its 2026 list of “236 Women Hospital and Health System Presidents and CEOs

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Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

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CISA warns admins to patch actively exploited SharePoint flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned Tuesday that attackers are actively exploiting three vulnerabilities to hack Internet-exposed on-premises SharePoint Server instances.

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Shane Ryan defends Rory McIlroy ‘legacy’ question after internet blowback

The final of golf’s four major championships begins later this week at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, and players are fulfilling their pre-tournament media obligations. As one would expect before an Open Championship, golf fans were hanging on every word six-time major winner Rory McIlroy gave to the press. But it was one…

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Magic, Memes & Meditation: Sotce's Summer School Diary

The internet's favorite spiritual poster takes NYLON behind the scenes of her Summer School in Estonia through an exclusive photo diary.

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“Worst Toxicity I’ve Seen On The Internet” – Serena Williams’ Husband Alexis Ohanian Shares Brutal Reality Of Sports Gambling

Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, recently opened up about the brutal reality of sports gambling he witnessed once he started dating the American, highlighting the harassment from sports bettors. Williams returned to professional tennis in June 2026 after nearly four years away from the sport.

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In an era of suspicion, political conspiracy theories flourish online

The internet’s reactionary machinery is churning at full force after Lindsey Graham’s sudden death and Mitch McConnell’s illness.

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Erling Haaland brought a $750 taxidermy raccoon home from World Cup

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McConnell took a photo with that day’s newspaper. The internet suspects AI.

The senator’s attempt to end rumors about his health led to more online speculation about the image.

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The Quintessential Trump-era Politician

In 2020, I wrote an article about collaboration and collaborators. The title was History Will Judge the Complicit, and it started with the story of two famous East Germans, Markus Wolf and Wolfgang Leonhard, who both landed in East Berlin just after the end of the war. Although they came from very similar backgrounds, the former stuck with the regime, eventually becoming its spy boss; the latter, horrified by the brutal reality of Soviet-style communism, escaped. By way of juxtaposition, I also wrote about Lyndsey Graham and Mitt Romney. These two men also made very different decisions when confronted by Donald Trump’s assault on the ideals that they had both grown up believing: A glance at their biographies would not have led many to predict what happened next. On paper, Graham would have seemed, in 2016, like the man with deeper ties to the military, to the rule of law, and to an old-fashioned idea of American patriotism and American responsibility in the world. Romney, by contrast, with his shifts between the center and the right, with his multiple careers in business and politics, would have seemed less deeply attached to those same old-fashioned patriotic ideals. Most of us register soldiers as loyal patriots, and management consultants as self-interested. We assume people from small towns in South Carolina are more likely to resist political pressure than people who have lived in many places. Intuitively, we think that loyalty to a particular place implies loyalty to a set of values. But in this case the clichés were wrong. It was Graham who made excuses for Trump’s abuse of power. It was Graham—a JAG Corps lawyer—who downplayed the evidence that the president had attempted to manipulate foreign courts and blackmail a foreign leader into launching a phony investigation into a political rival. It was Graham who abandoned his own stated support for bipartisanship and instead pushed for a hyperpartisan Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. It was Graham who played golf with Trump, who made excuses for him on television, who supported the president even as he slowly destroyed the American alliances—with Europeans, with the Kurds—that Graham had defended all his life. By contrast, it was Romney who, in February, became the only Republican senator to break ranks with his colleagues, voting to impeach the president. “Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office,” he said, is “perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine.” In the wake of Graham’s unexpected death on Saturday, I wrote about him again. He was, in many ways, the quintessential politician of Trump’s Washington, a man who shifted 180 degrees. Graham had been a fervent American patriot, proud reserve officer and military lawyer; he became one of the most important defenders of a president who believes soldiers are “suckers and losers” and shows no respect for law of any kind. As his politics changed, his language grew coarser and his behavior grew worse: He urged Israel to “level the place” in Gaza, and insulted the Danish prime minister in Munich, prompting a colleague, Senator Elissa Slotkin, to issue an apology. Here’s an excerpt from the article, which you can read in The Atlantic (gift link here) Like his close friend John McCain, Graham believed that America should stand at the center of a broad democratic alliance. The few times I met him were in that context, at the Munich Security Conference or at other European-American gatherings, which he once attended with great regularity. He also took seriously the practice of American democracy at home. In a 2014 conversation with The Atlantic, he described himself as a pragmatic politician who eschewed populist slogans. “I know Washington is broken, but what’s broken about it is everybody yelling and nobody trying to fix it,” he said. “I’m trying.” When Donald Trump first appeared in U.S. politics, Graham recognized him immediately for what he was: the spokesman for an alien ideology, one radically different from the idealistic patriotism that Graham had practiced and preached since childhood. Trump privately mocked the military that Graham loved as nothing but “suckers and losers.” He put falsehoods, cynicism, and personal greed at the center of his politics, while expressing disdain for transparency, accountability, and democracy itself. In 2015, Graham described Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” who should “go to hell.” Also as a “nutjob.” When Trump won, Graham understood, as did so many others, that he would have to make some important choices. For a while, he went silent. In the spring of 2016, I saw him at one of those conferences in Europe. He seemed too depressed to speak. But then, like many other Republicans—and, more important, like many other people who have lived under political occupation or experienced radical regime change—he made the decision to abandon his previous ideals, to bury the patriotism that was once so important to him, and to become, instead, a loud, opportunistic collaborator. As I wrote in 2020, it’s very hard to look in to anyone’s heart and to understand their motivations from the outside. But it does seem that Graham had a deep need to be relevant, to be in the game, to be a player, at any cost. And that, rather than any particular achievement, is what he will be remembered for. Continuing to monitor conflicts of interest, ostentatious emoluments, outright corruption and policy changes that will facilitate outright corruption. (Read my original article, Kleptocracy Inc and check out the SNF Agora Institute chart) June 27 Trump diverted funds from more than 900 projects nationwide—including safety upgrades at national parks—to finance beautification projects around Washington, including $700,000 used to fix a White House walkway. June 28 After a years-long Department of Justice investigation into Abbott Laboratories over its management of a baby formula facility where potentially deadly bacteria turned up enough evidence to criminally charge the firm, top department officials instead opted for a financial penalty—illustrating the department’s move away from strict corporate enforcement under the Trump administration. June 29 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stacked the Defense Policy Board—which is charged with providing independent national security recommendations to the Office of the Secretary of Defense—with Trump allies, including tech billionaire Marc Andreessen, who has invested in defense contractors like OpenAI and SpaceX, after purging the panel last year. Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in Axon—which makes about 90% of US tasers—two weeks before ICE solicited bids for a $220 million taser contract. The White House unveiled limited-edition US passports for America’s 250th birthday, featuring a portrait of Trump overlaid on the Declaration of Independence. June 30 Trump made around $1.2 billion from his various crypto companies last year, including more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial and $600 million from sales of his meme coin. Trump is considering issuing 250 pardons to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. These are expected to be largely doled out through the Office of the Pardon Attorney’s informal network of intermediaries. White-collar defense attorneys say they can typically win pardons for clients for $2 million. Last year, Trump administration officials awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million to Clark Construction for the White House ballroom—negotiations in which the president was directly involved. July 1 The Amazon MGM Studios documentary about Melania Trump earned the First Lady more than $10 million. Trump made hundreds of individual stock purchases worth as much as $12.8 million the day before his announcement pausing “Liberation Day” tariffs for 90 days sent the S&P 500 soaring nearly 10%—one of the largest single-day gains ever. Mar-a-Lago and Trump National Doral saw record surges in revenue during Trump’s first year in office, earning $77.5 million and $121.9 million respectively, compared to average annual revenues of $25 million and $75 million during Trump’s first term. Entities across the Persian Gulf paid more than $300 million to Trump’s businesses last year, including $263 million from the sale of half his stake in World Liberty Financial to a firm backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a top UAE royal and brother of the country’s president. Kash Patel failed to properly disclose his stock purchase of a Department of Justice contractor, MicroStrategy, worth up to $250,000 last year, despite laws requiring disclosure within 45 days of the trade. July 2 Trump has been directing administration officials to steer more government contracts—so far worth more than $2.4 billion—to Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin aerospace firm, after Amazon gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund, donated to the White House ballroom project, and reached a $40 million deal to license a Melania Trump documentary. Alongside the billions he made from cryptocurrency last year, Trump earned millions of dollars from real estate licensing fees, including $21 million from organizations in the UAE and $9.2 million in Saudi Arabia, along with smaller sums from merchandise sales, including $4.7 million from Trump Watches and $35,920 from 45 Guitar, a guitar brand endorsed by the president. House Democrats accused consultants tied to the Trump administration of financial fraud, alleging they gave prospective donors to America250—the bipartisan committee created by Congress to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial—the banking and routing numbers for Freedom 250, the White House’s fund for events like the UFC cage fight. Democrats also allege that Freedom 250’s CEO traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos to solicit donations from foreign government officials and business leaders. The Trump administration’s proposed rollback of gun regulations would lift the prohibition on mailing handguns to individuals, a significant win for GrabAGun—the direct-to-consumer firearm retailer on whose board Donald Trump Jr. sits and in which he holds a 1.1% ownership stake. GrabAGun currently must rely on a middleman to transfer firearms to customers. Trump’s financial disclosure revealed that he made more than 21,000 securities trades during his first year back in office, growing his investment account to at least $858 million across stakes in around 1,600 companies, compared to the 13 total trades Joe Biden made during his entire presidency. July 4 Nearly 1 million people who bought the president’s meme coin—Trump Coin—collectively lost $3.8 billion on the token, while he walked away with $636 million. July 6 Shares of Dell closed up 4.4% after Trump recommended people buy the firm’s computers during a speech announcing the launch of Trump investment accounts for children, boosting the more than $1 million worth of shares the president owns in the company. July 9 Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh named crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen to a task force aimed at modernizing the Federal Reserve, including rethinking its approach to inflation—a key factor keeping interest rates elevated. Palm Beach International Airport has officially changed its name to Trump International Airport—a move that will require Florida to pay royalties to the president’s family for licensing his name. I was there a few months ago, during a trip to Barcelona. The sculptures were a revelation, I’d never seen so many together before. Each one has its own personality. Enjoy the good weather, if you are lucky enough to have it. History Will Judge the Complicit The Quintessential Politician Autocracy Inc Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Handover of Health Commodities

Joint Handover of Health Commodities Speech of Chargé d’Affaires Steve Bremner (…) Thank you for joining us. I am here today to demonstrate how U.S. foreign assistance under President Trump’s America First Global Health Strategy and our bilateral health MOU makes America safer and stronger while helping Madagascar build a more self-reliant health system. Through our bilateral Global Health Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in December 2025 with the Ministry of Public Health, our two governments outlined shared priorities and responsibilities, including a strong focus on infectious disease threats and Madagascar’s increasing ownership and co-investment in its own health system. The MOU outlines the structure and terms of U.S. support to Madagascar’s health sector from 2026 through 2030, with a total commitment of $134,305,000 from the U.S. government and $41,216,252 from the Government of Madagascar to work jointly to address malaria, maternal and child health, polio and global health security issues. Stronger health systems help prevent instability and reduce the risk that infectious diseases reach the United States, making both our countries safer. America First foreign assistance is clear and disciplined: It is a tool of strategic engagement, not global charity. Every U.S. taxpayer dollar must show measurable results, reduce long-term dependence on U.S. taxpayer resources, and support greater self-reliance in recipient countries. Support must be efficient and targeted, with zero tolerance for fraud, waste, or abuse. This year, through the U.S.-funded Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management project, we are distributing: 989,250 long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, worth $2,000,000 to 63 districts and 1,661 Community Health Centers across Madagascar, with the third and final delivery of these nets having arrived in late June. Through the U.S.-funded Momentum Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) project, we are funding: The full cost of Starlink internet connectivity equipment procurement, installation, and one-year subscription for 31 priority District and Regional Health Offices. Through the U.S.-funded Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection Systems project, we are supplying: 908,523 pieces of critical medical equipment and a modernized digital surveillance system to the Ministry of Public Health. These materials will strengthen health systems, improve response capabilities, and help those most in need of protection from mosquito-borne diseases — particularly malaria, which continues to claim the lives of children and women at an unacceptable rate. Deployed effectively, they will contribute to reducing maternal and newborn mortality in rural and hard-to-reach communities where the need is greatest. In these same underserved areas, Starlink connectivity will play a critical role in enabling the rapid transmission of health data and information to central levels, ensuring that decision-makers receive timely, actionable intelligence and can mount swift, coordinated responses to protect populations. For Americans, this support delivers concrete benefits. Stronger health systems in Madagascar help detect and contain infectious diseases before they spread across borders, protecting American and Malagasy families. More stable, healthier countries can expand trade and economic cooperation with the United States. Our goal is not permanent support; it is temporary, targeted assistance that helps Madagascar save lives while achieving greater self-reliance and independence from foreign assistance. To the health workers and community health agents here that will use the products we’re delivering today: your dedication and skills save lives. Your work exemplifies the kind of local ownership that will enable Madagascar to reduce dependence on foreign assistance and manage the country’s health challenges. This targeted support delivers results today while helping Madagascar build toward a future where it can sustain and expand those health gains independently, ensuring that today’s U.S. support leads to Madagascar’s self-sufficiency. Thank you, Misaotra.

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United States Delivers Life-Saving Health Supplies and equipment to Madagascar

United States Delivers Life-Saving Health Supplies and equipment to Madagascar U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Steve Bremner presided over a handover ceremony to the Government of Madagascar, represented by President of the Refoundation Col. Michaël Randrianirina, marking the delivery of nearly one million mosquito nets, over 900,000 pieces of critical laboratory equipment, and 33 internet connectivity systems. The assistance – valued at more than $2.2 million – is part of a broader U.S.-Madagascar health partnership, outlined in our bilateral Global Health Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in December 2025, totaling $134 million from the U.S. government from 2026 through 2030. “This assistance is clear and disciplined – it is a tool of strategic engagement, not global charity,” said Chargé d’Affaires Steve Bremner. “Every U.S. taxpayer dollar must show measurable results, reduce long-term dependence on U.S. resources, and support greater self-reliance. Stronger health systems in Madagascar help detect and contain infectious diseases before they spread across borders, protecting American and Malagasy families alike.” The assistance includes: 989,250 long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets - worth $2 million – will be distributed to 63 districts and 1,661 community health centers across Madagascar. Malaria remains one of the leading causes of death in the country, claiming the lives of children and women at an unacceptable rate. The third and final delivery of these nets arrived in late June and will be distributed starting this July until mid-October, ensuring that those most at risk of mosquito-borne disease now have access to this basic but life-saving protection. U.S.-funded Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project will ensure the distribution. 908,523 pieces of critical medical and laboratory equipment – valued at $180,000 – including personal protective equipment, laboratory supplies, diagnostic tools, and cold chain equipment – along with a modernized digital surveillance system to Madagascar’s Ministry of Public Health. This support through the STRIDES (Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection Systems) program bolsters Madagascar’s ability to detect and respond to outbreaks of diseases such as monkeypox, plague, rabies, polio, and Ebola before they become regional or global threats. Over $30,000 of funding for the full procurement, installation, and first year of service for 33 Starlink satellite internet systems at priority districts and regional health offices across the country. These systems will allow health workers in remote and underserved communities to transmit health data quickly to central decision-makers – enabling faster, better-coordinated responses when disease outbreaks occur. U.S.-funded Momentum Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) will implement this project. As the country’s largest bilateral health donor, the United States remains committed to the principle that a stronger, healthier Madagascar makes for a stronger, safer world – and a stronger, safer America.

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AI giants learn the hard truth of the modern internet

Anthropic's distillation complaints expose an awkward question: does AI's fair use argument cut both ways?

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AI giants learn the hard truth of the modern internet

Anthropic's distillation complaints expose an awkward question: does AI's fair use argument cut both ways?

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Need to ID a plant? The University of Michigan launched a free app to help.

The app does not require an internet connection and users can learn about a plant's nativity to a region, growing conditions and habitat.

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Death of Console Discs Pushes Gamers to PC

The reception of PlayStation's recent decision to stop producing physical games media in early 2028 has been heard far and wide across the internet, with fans even going as far as to start the "Don't Kill the Disc" petition on Change.org. More recently, a survey on Push Square, a publication that...

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Meet the Preceptors Shaping the Future of Nursing

At the center of our health system’s mission is a commitment to the next generation of healthcare leaders. As the country’s largest municipal health system, we are proud to invest...

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Random: The Internet Is Going Crazy For This Early 2000s Activision Surfing Game

The people yearn for Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer

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Kathy Griffin, 65, teases that she’s dating 22-year-old: ‘Have at it, internet’

Comedian Kathy Griffin, 65, teased a potential romantic relationship as she hinted that she’s dating a 22-year-old man: ‘Have at it, internet,’ she said.

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Everything to know about Yahoo Sports' new fantasy college football

Yahoo Sports nearly broke the internet when they announced fantasy college football would be introduced for the 2026 season.

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NYC Health + Hospitals Announces All 11 Hospitals Again Recognized by the American Heart Association for Quality Care

New York, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals announced all 11 of its hospitals were again recognized by the American Heart Association for their commitment to

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst Appoints Dr. Robin Ulep as Vice Chair of Neurology and Co-Director of Stroke Center

Elmhurst, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst today announced the appointment of Robin Ulep, MD, as Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology and

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Dad tosses child’s Nintendo Switch from moving car, shocking the internet: 'It felt pretty great'
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AT&T Ranked #1 in Customer Satisfaction for Small Business Internet Service by JD Power

Following recognition as #1 in Customer Satisfaction for Small Business Wireless Service in 2025, AT&T was rated highest among internet providers for small...

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Beloved computer science professor who brought internet to University of Calgary retires after 6 decades

Sixty-two years after Jon Rokne stepped foot on campus, the computer science professor who brought the internet to the University of Calgary has retired — on paper. There isn’t a chance the 85-year-old will stop working.

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Jul 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca
Danielle DiBari, Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Chief Pharmacy Officer and Chief Procurement Officer named to Becker's 2026 "101 Hospital and Health system Chief Pharmacy Officers to Know" List

NYC Health + Hospitals announced that Danielle DiBari, Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Chief Pharmacy Officer and Chief Procurement Officer,

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Jul 7 • 12:56 PM EDT • Business • nychealthandhospitals.org
Windows 11 will soon be able to reinstall itself and your drivers without a USB drive via new 'Cloud Rebuild' recovery method

A new recovery option coming to Windows 11 will let you reinstall the OS and your drivers using the internet without a USB key, even when Windows itself is unbootable.

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Jul 6 • 8:18 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
Guest column: Louisiana’s broadband strategy is helping businesses compete

Every Louisiana business depends on reliable internet service, whether it is processing payments, managing inventory, communicating with customers or supporting employees. Broadband access now directly affects productivity, customer service, operating costs and the ability to compete in an increasingly digital economy. For years, many Louisiana communities dealt with limited internet options, inconsistent service and high […]

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Jul 6 • 3:50 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst Celebrates New Point-of-Care MRI with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards recently held a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the arrival of a new point of

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Jul 6 • 11:37 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
B.I.D. Academy demonstrates how artificial intelligence can transform small businesses

BELTON — For years, artificial intelligence has largely been associated with chatbots, writing assistance and internet searches. But during the second session of Prairie View A&M University Extension’s Business Innovation

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Jul 5 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • kdhnews.com
How I Cleaned Up the Thousands of Photos and Videos I Had Scattered Across the Internet

I reduced my storage subscription fees and learned a valuable lesson in how to back up priceless memories.

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Jul 5 • 8:01 AM EDT • Technology • cnet.com
Best Buy’s 4th of July Blowout Sale: Deals From Apple, Bose, Google, JBL, and Samsung

We're scouring the internet for the best deals so you can save with minimal effort. Celebrate this holiday weekend now with massive discounts on top tech, including iPads, Soundbars, Switch 2 accessories, and more.

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Jul 3 • 1:13 PM EDT • Technology • pcmag.com
Brad Stevens Messed Up Badly With Awful Jaylen Brown Trade

What were the Boston Celtics thinking? What was going through team president Brad Stevens' mind when he decided to trade Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers? On July 1, the internet broke when ESPN's Shams Charania revealed that Brown -- the subject of trade rumors ever since the Celtics were ...

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Jul 2 • 9:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vinton Cerf says AI must learn these 3 lessons

From standardization to turning a product into a platform, Vinton Cerf said there are lessons AI must learn from the internet boom.

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Jul 2 • 12:02 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens Receives the PRISM Award from the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses

NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens today announced that its Medical-Surgical Unit, 5B East, has received the prestigious PRISM Award from the Academy of

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Jul 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
Meta building out cloud business is 'a really smart pivot,' says Evercore ISI's Mark Mahaney

Mark Mahaney, head of internet research at Evercore ISI, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss Meta's decision to expand its cloud business, why he likes the company, and more.

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Jul 1 • 10:45 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet

One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.

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Jul 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • blog.cloudflare.com
The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

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Jun 30 • 11:15 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan and MetroPlusHealth Support New Mother of Triplets

New York, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, in partnership with MetroPlusHealth, today shared the story of Doris A. Lucio Lucio, an immigrant

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Jun 30 • 2:06 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
The origin story of college football’s most unhinged corner of the internet: Message boards

Message boards are ubiquitous with college sports, and have been since the late 1990s. Here's how it all began.

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Jun 30 • 6:15 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
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New hollow-core fiber test pushes internet speeds to 1.2Tb/s

Chinese researchers achieved a new milestone in fiber-optic technology, achieving ultra-fast data transmission over long distances without signal repeaters.

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Jun 27 • 1:28 PM EDT • Technology • interestingengineering.com
Why the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is Breaking the Internet

Discover the leaked specs and design details of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Fold 8 Ultra ahead of their July 26 unveiling.

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Jun 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • geeky-gadgets.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens NICU Awarded Gold Beacon Award for Excellence

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens has been honored with the prestigious Gold Beacon Award for Excellence from the

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Jun 26 • 10:43 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
New Enhanced Services Pilot Brings Home Health Aides to New Yorkers in Their New Homes

New York, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals’ Housing for Health initiative today announced Bridge to Care, a pilot program funded by The Leona M. and Harry B.

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Jun 25 • 10:04 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
NYC Health + Hospitals Launches Application for Clinical Leadership Fellowship 2027-2028

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced the opening of applications for the Clinical Leadership Fellowship, a one-year program to develop the next

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Jun 24 • 12:23 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
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NYC Health + Hospitals Announces New Season of Farmers Markets Near Patient Care Sites

New York, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals today launched a new season of farmers markets hosted at public hospitals and community health centers across the

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Jun 23 • 3:35 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst Pediatric Residents and Newtown High School Train Students and Teachers to Handle Cardiac Arrest

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst today announced its pediatric residents trained nearly 200 students and staff at Newtown High School in cardiac arrest

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Jun 22 • 11:48 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
Solar storms don't shock people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables become the very antennas that channel the damage into modern life

Solar storms do not electrocute people. They induce slow electric currents in long conductors — power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables — which then channel the damage into substations and shore stations. The 1989 Quebec blackout took down a continent's grid in 90 seconds without a single direct strike from the Sun.

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Jun 21 • 8:20 AM EDT • Technology • spacedaily.com
Wedbush Initiates Coverage on Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock with Outperform Rating

Flutter Entertainment plc (NYSE:FLUT) is one of the Stocks with Potential to Explode in 2026. On June 17, Wedbush initiated coverage on the company’s stock with an “Outperform” rating and a price objective of $138.00. As per the analyst, the company is the world’s largest online sports betting and internet gaming operator and has exposure to the […]

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Jun 21 • 7:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Starlink Satellites Are Doing A Lot More Than Just Providing Internet

Starlink is well-known for providing internet to rural areas that could only dream of it at one point. These days, Starlink is doing much more than that.

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Jun 20 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • slashgear.com
ChatGPT's New Internet Browser Can Run 90% of a One-Person Business (No Hiring Required)

You're not prompting anymore. You're delegating.

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Jun 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • entrepreneur.com
Real Estate Is Still a People Business

Unless you’ve been avoiding the internet for the past few years, you’ve probably noticed that artificial intelligence is everywhere. From customer service chatbots to content creation and personal assistants, AI is reshaping how people work, communicate, and access information. Real estate is no exception. Buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals are incorporating AI into their […]

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Jun 19 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • bendsource.com