NEW RESOURCES
ZDNet: How many jobs is your state losing to AI? This dashboard tracks the cuts – and the cost. “The Wage Loss Dashboard includes a map of where layoffs have occurred since January 2026 (it was just updated this month to include September data) and a drop-down that shows data for the entire country or an individual state. As of now, the dashboard finds just over 117,000 job cuts attributed to AI nationally this year — $8.5 billion in estimated annual wage losses.”
Intent: In Kyiv, artifacts from the war—ranging from the Maidan to the battles for Kherson—have been digitized. “The National Military History Museum of Ukraine has unveiled a multimedia guide featuring a digital archive that covers events ranging from the Revolution of Dignity to the liberation of Kherson. The project allows visitors to interact with over 500 digitized exhibits.”
State of Hawaii: Hawaiʻi Climate Rebate Finder Helps Residents And Local Businesses Save On Upgrades. “In addition to residential incentives, the rebate finder includes dedicated resources for commercial operations, small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Business owners can easily locate commercial energy efficiency rebates, water conservation incentives and clean-fleet opportunities designed to lower overhead costs and boost operational resilience.”
AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
The Register: ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency. “Internet governance organization the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has come to the realization it needs to move faster. The org today opened its annual conference in Bali, Indonesia, with an opening ceremony during which chair Tripti Sinha noted that it’s now just over ten years since the US government effectively handed over internet governance responsibilities from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to ICANN.”
Politico: Sergey Brin’s political awakening. “Sergey Brin once called government a ‘giant bonfire of partisanship’ and spent years on the political sidelines. But in recent months, the Google co-founder has emerged as a political force in California, pouring unprecedented sums into the fight to defeat a proposed tax on billionaires. This year alone, Brin has spent about 40 times what he put into politics in the previous two decades, making him the biggest individual donor to a ballot measure campaign in California history.”
Front Office Sports: Polymarket Removes Cornell 7 Market After Blowback. “Polymarket and its athlete endorsers came under fire for a market on the company’s international platform that allowed users to bet on whether any of the seven male defendants accused of raping a Cornell student will be charged with a felony sex crime. Following initial publication of this story, the company removed the market. The market, which was not available on Polymarket’s U.S. app, was first made available Sept. 30. As of early Monday afternoon, there was $451,633 in volume, with traders placing a roughly 28% chance on the market resolving to ‘yes’ by Jan. 31, 2027, which is when the market was set to close.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Nebraska Examiner: Omaha father suing DHHS after records-request estimate of nearly $1M, 2076 deadline. “An Omaha father said he was ‘dumbfounded’ when his request for transparency about a DHHS tool used in determining funding for families with disabilities led to a nearly $1 million estimate to provide records, with expected completion by September 2076. DHHS now faces a lawsuit over the estimate.”
Associated Press: Online forum controlled by Nevada GOP House candidate contains slurs and Nazi talk, AP review finds. “Long before running for Congress, Marty O’Donnell was an award-winning music composer for the popular ‘Halo’ video game franchise. His work drew legions of fans to an online forum, which the Nevada Republican has tried to turn into a galvanizing force as he tries to unseat a Democrat in a Las Vegas area district that could help decide House control…. An Associated Press review of thousands of posts made on the forum between 2022 and 2026 found racial slurs, minimizations of Nazi Germany and defenses of white nationalist conspiracy theories.”
Gizmodo: New Data Show How Much Worse Scams Are Getting for Americans Over 60. “The report, which is mandated by Congress under the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, found that the amount of money seniors reported to the FTC as being lost to fraud jumped from $600 million in 2020 to $3 billion in 2025. But the real number is likely several times that, since most fraud goes unreported.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
CNN: Trump admin cuts to satellites will set back US weather forecasting by a decade, experts say. “The Trump administration’s cuts to weather satellites will set the country back nearly a decade, experts say. The loss of data used to observe, forecast and research extreme weather could prevent the country from making major advances in weather prediction in the coming years.”
The Conversation: Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian data centres may change how we see disinformation. “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strikes had made it ‘easier to breathe on many social media platforms’, by reducing Russian disinformation and bot activity. Later reports have cast doubt on Zelensky’s claim. Either way, the incident highlights the role of physical communication infrastructure in the online world. It also raises questions over what ‘digital sovereignty’ really means, and hints at a way to fight disinformation.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
This is from last July but I only just now found it. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: UWM engineering student brings metal casting to the masses. “The man behind the metal is Swaroop Behera, a doctoral student in engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He’s running Foundry in a Box, a portable outreach kit designed to give people a hands-on intro to metal casting. If you’re lucky enough to stumble across one of these pop-up events, you might walk away not only with a new appreciation for applications of materials science in engineering, but with a freshly cast metal keychain you made yourself.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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