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Cases of measles in American continue to rise. As of June 5th of this year, the official case count in the country stood at 2,030 confirmed cases. In 2025's record breaking year for measles c ...

California lawmakers are again considering A.B. 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The probl ...

The more things change, the more they remain the same. That could be said of anywhere in this country, now that the Trump administration is trying to turn the clock back to 1940, if not 1840. But i ...

Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about "the boring internet," discussing how the internet that many of us grew up with, the wonderful, empowering, exciting ...

The 2026 Data Engineering Bundle has 7 online courses designed to help learners build skills that align directly with industry expectations. The focus is on practical tools and languages used by da ...

The Trump administration has thrown billions at purging non-white people from this country. Most of that has ended up in the hands of ICE, which has -- in turn -- thrown hundreds of milli ...

On one hand, the Trump administration wants to destroy most corporate oversight, consumer protection, labor rights, and regulatory autonomy. On the other hand, the administration very much wants to ...

Back in January of this year, RFK Jr. clearly strong armed the CDC into changing the childhood vaccination schedules in America to mimic those of Denmark. The public messaging was crafted to sound ...

Support us on Patreon » The concept of "enshittification" has helped illuminate why companies and their products so often get worse over time, but the causes of this process ...

In the last three months I've had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What's been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would b ...