What were the big trends in AI and Data Science in 2025 and what trends they expect to see in 2026. Andrew Jones-Rooy is here to explain. And we discuss Derek Thompson’s “Is the Smartphone Theory of ...

The Pacific Northwest saw a dramatic spike in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at the end of 2025, particularly in the Portland area and in less populous parts of Washington with ...

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...

Many technologists say artificial intelligence will reshape the future of all sectors of society, including K-12 education. Therefore, they add that today’s students need to have AI literacy to ...

Monthly wholesale inflation unexpectedly sped up in January, the Labor Department said Friday. The producer-price index increased by 0.5% last month, after rising by 0.4% in December. Economists ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

A growing number of U.S. legal initiatives now treat personal data as a “dual-use” technology—an asset that can be exploited not only for commercial purposes but also for intelligence and national ...

Total union membership remained relatively unchanged in 2025, even in the face of tough political and economic headwinds. The union membership rate sat at about 10% of US wage and salary workers in ...

Nitrate concentrations, exacerbated by a wet spring that followed years of dry conditions, reached near record highs in Iowa rivers this summer. Concentrations are typically elevated in the summer.

Annual revisions show that employers added far fewer jobs in 2024 and 2025 than previously estimated. Change in nonfarm employment since Jan. 2023. Note: Data is seasonally adjusted. Source: Bureau of ...