California wants colleges to count work experience for credit. How’s it going?

Laylah Rivers had already been a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and worked at various tech companies across the West Coast.
PCMag

Check Your Phone Now: These 20 Popular Apps Are Killing Your Privacy

Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Artificial metacognition: Giving an AI the ability to ‘think’ about its ‘thinking’

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink

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Phys.org

Crowd sensing for the environment: Citizen science and plant apps map how urbanization alters city soils and climate

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from plant identification apps, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...
Fast Company

New Mac for Christmas? Try these 6 apps and games with your new Apple computer

Whether you’re a student or a professional who just got a new Mac, one of the most critical apps to have is a word processor. For decades now, the word-processing king, Microsoft Word, has been ...
Wired

A Brain-Computer Interface Company Is Getting Into Organ Preservation

Science Corporation, founded by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods. Science Corporation, the brain-computer ...
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What science says about how men and women use dating apps differently

A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that where your attention goes first on a dating app may depend on your gender. Canada's Florida boycott 'taking effect' on Donald ...
WRAL

Massachusetts court hears arguments in lawsuit alleging Meta designed apps to be addictive to kids

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state's lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users. The ...
PBS

Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s use of Signal app put U.S. personnel at risk, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information ...
BGR

5 Essential Security Apps That Actually Protect Your Computer

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today more than ever, it is of the utmost importance that you have one or more security apps protecting your computer's sensitive inner ...
Bleeping Computer

Google to flag Android apps with excessive battery use on the Play Store

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...