CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
Wired

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...
JD Supra

California’s AB 2013 Takes Effect: Navigating AI Training Data Transparency and Trade Secret Risk

California’s AB 2013, also known as the Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act (TDTA), took effect on January 1, 2026. In our June 2025 alert, “California’s AB 2013: ...
Ars Technica

The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that’s among the strictest in the nation took ...
PBS

Bans on using SNAP funds for soda, candy and other foods take effect in some states Jan. 1

Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits. Indiana, Iowa, ...
wsbt

Indiana consumer data protection law goes into effect January 1

SOUTH BEND, IN (WSBT) — Indiana will see new laws taking effect at the start of the new year. One new law focuses on how Hoosiers protect their personal data. The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act ...
Search Engine Land

Google launches Data Manager API

Google’s new Data Manager API gives advertisers a simpler, centralized way to feed first-party data into its AI systems. Google is rolling out a new Data Manager API that lets you plug first-party ...
SiliconANGLE

Mixpanel breach compromises some OpenAI API users’ account data

A breach at data analytics provider Mixpanel Inc. has compromised the account information of some OpenAI Group PBC users. The ChatGPT developer disclosed the incident on Wednesday. Mixpanel’s namesake ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
WSB-TV

Data center set to use 6 water towers worth of water per day in Georgia

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...
NPR

Teens who use weed before age 15 have more trouble later, a study finds

Teens who start using cannabis before age 15 are more likely to use the drug often later in their lives. They are also more likely to develop mental and physical health problems in young adulthood ...