Former President Donald Trump has proposed a wide variety of tax policy changes. Taken together, these proposals would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax increase for all other income groups.| ITEP
Historical summary of the U.S. government’s total outstanding debt at the beginning of each fiscal year.| fiscaldata.treasury.gov
The compelling economic case for investing in climate-change mitigation and adaptation is not broadly understood, says a new report from BCG.| Cambridge Judge Business School
The United States should strive toward an energy system with fewer barriers to innovation and more opportunities for consumers to access affordable and dependable power systems, decide how and when they consume (and produce) the electricity they want and need, and invest in the solutions that bring them the greatest value.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer| Platformer
A look at how the 2023-2024 Google changes and rise of AI technology are negatively affecting travel blogs and other small publishers.| A Dangerous Business Travel Blog
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted| andymasley.substack.com
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?| www.oneusefulthing.org
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”| The Intercept
What comes after the Homework Apocalypse| www.oneusefulthing.org
On average, a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search. In that difference lies a coming sea change in how the US, Europe, and the world at large will consume power — and how much that will cost. | www.goldmansachs.com
Learn about the largest IT outage in history and how a botched software update took down several services.| WhatIs
A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.| WIRED
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.| APM Research Lab
Memory safety is a property of some programming languages that prevents programmers from introducing certain types of bugs related to how memory is used. Since memory safety bugs are often security issues, memory safe languages are more secure than languages that are not memory safe. Memory safe languages include Rust, Go, C#, Java, Swift, Python, and JavaScript. Languages that are not memory safe include C, C++, and assembly. Types of Memory Safety Bugs To begin understanding memory safety b...| Prossimo
Check out @FiscalService Fiscal Data’s new national debt page! #NationalDebt| fiscaldata.treasury.gov
