June 2025
Here’s Who Needs Android’s New Advanced Security Protection (and Who Probably Doesn’t)
Android users got a whole host of security and privacy upgrades with the release of Android 16, including expanded in-call scam protection, live threat detection for malicious apps, and more. These features are well worth enabling, as they’ll help secure your data and your device against theft, malware, and phishing attacks. Google also extended its […]
Weekly Forecast: June 30 – July 4, 2025 – A Countdown To Fireworks – ElsaElsa
Monday’s Virgo Moon moves through the middle of the Mercury-ruled sign, through the Moon’s south node. Sunny Leo Mercury moves away from opposition to Aquarius Pluto as Venus heads ever more closely into conjunction with Uranus in Taurus. A grounded, contemplative mood falls back on refining its position, and that position sparks the beginning of […]
A Notorious Hacker Group Is Now Targeting the Aviation Industry
Even IT pros are susceptible to hackers these days. According to an FBI warning, a notorious cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider is deceiving IT help desks into targeting the US airline industry. Scattered Spider gained attention in 2023 for hacking both MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment within a week of each other. “These actors rely on social […]
NEPC Talks Education: The Hidden Risks of Education Technology in K-12 Schools
BOULDER, CO (June 19, 2025)—In this month’s episode of NEPC Talks Education, Christopher Saldaña explores the widespread adoption of education technology in schools and its unintended consequences with Faith Boninger, Publications Manager and Co-Director of NEPC’s Commercialism in Education Research Unit, and Andrew Liddell, co-founder of the EdTech Law Center, a consumer protection law firm […]
States Fear Uncertain Future of FEMA Grants Under Trump — ProPublica
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Upheaval at the nation’s top disaster agency is raising anxiety among state and local emergency managers — and leaving major questions about the whereabouts […]
Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work
Tesla’s robotaxi service may have had some early hitches, but the company said it just successfully delivered a car autonomously. Using the same robotaxi technology, Tesla showed the delivery process of a Model Y from its Gigafactory Texas in Austin to a customer with a roughly 30-minute journey as seen in a video posted on […]
LIV Golf Dallas experience and takeaways
It is definitely different. I have had the fortune of doing and seeing a lot of things in the world of golf and on Friday I did something that I never had in experiencing an event put on by LIV Golf. Friday marked the beginning of LIV Golf Dallas and I, our resident Dallas Cowboys […]
New ‘The Bear’ Season Features Mutant Carmy Terrorizing Chicago After Falling Into Vat Of Beef Juice
CHICAGO—With the fourth season of the hit FX show now streaming, viewers reportedly tuned into new episodes of The Bear Wednesday and watched a mutant Carmen Berzatto terrorize Chicago after falling into a vat of beef juice. “This year we decided to go in a different direction with Carmy, who has up until now been […]
Why New Yorkers Flake On You (And What It Really Means)
If you live in New York City long enough, it becomes a familiar story: you make plans with a friend, you get excited, and then—hours before—they cancel. Or ghost. Or show up 45 minutes late like nothing happened. Rinse, repeat. It feels personal. It can feel rude. It may even feel like maybe you’re not […]
My Skincare Routine on a Budget
Last week I wrote about my skincare routine and I hope that it was useful, informative, entertaining (possibly not the last one but you can’t win them all!). I’ve been writing about beauty for 15 years and I get to try the majority of the skincare products that get launched onto the market: I’d say […]