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Public safety power shutoffs are ramping up. Here’s how to be prepared

Fast Company Tech

A 2019 analysis of shutoffs in Placer County, California, found that they harmed 70% of local businesses. Shutoff plans also stretch from southern border states such as Arizona to northern border states such as Idaho and Montana. Zagorsky is an associate professor at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.

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AI slop is suffocating the web, says a new study

Fast Company Tech

But the ease of use of these AI models is having a material impact on the information we encounter daily, according to a new study published in Cornell Universitys preprint server arXiv. We wanted to quantify how many people are using these tools, says Yaohui Zhang, one of the study’s coauthors, and a researcher at Stanford University.

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University & Higher Education Advertising + Fundraising Study

Whole Whale

This analysis examines advertising and fundraising patterns across 1,258 U.S. Online-focused institutions like Southern New Hampshire University and National University lead in advertising spend, investing heavily in student acquisition through marketing channels. higher education institutions, universities spent a total of $4.4

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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

The Verge

Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. He went on: To my mind, political correctness as it exists in the modern university is a problem, because it can stifle discussion and silence minority views. This group has been linked by security firms to the Chinese government.

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How Trump’s cuts to U.S. biomedical research will slash jobs and kill lifesaving cures

Fast Company Tech

Yet “all the people out there who have, you know, sick parents, sick children, this is going to impact,” said neuroscientist Richard Huganir of Johns Hopkins University. “the envy of the world in terms of scientific innovation,” said Georgetown University health policy expert Lawrence Gostin.

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This century-old law lets presidents shift the sizes of national monuments

Fast Company Tech

Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Project (GAP), 2024] Presidents have expanded and contracted national monuments, as the U.S. Creating White Clouds Wilderness in Idaho, for example, took decades and a public campaign to have it designated a national monument before Congress approved its wilderness designation. Image: U.S.