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150,000 Sq. Miles to Be Protected in Canada’s Northwest by Coalition of First Nations https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/150000-sq-miles-to-be-protected-in-canadas-far-northwest-by-coalition-of-first-nations/

150,000 Sq. Miles to Be Protected in Canada's Northwest by Coalition of First Nations
Over 12,000 members of various First Nations' people lived there as of 2021, making up over 40% of the territory's population. 

Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/cognition-ai-windsurf.html

Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/elmo-x-hack-antisemitism.html
Hacker Impersonating Elmo Makes Antisemitic X Posts

Hacker Makes Antisemitic Posts on Elmo’s X Account
The owner of “Sesame Street” said it was working to restore control of Elmo’s social media account after the cyberattack on the fuzzy red monster, a beloved character on the children’s show.

A four-day US military drone exercise in Alaska exposed significant technological and operational gaps compared to Chinese and Russian drone capabilities (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manu…

Why the U.S. Is Way Behind China in Making Drones for War
A four-day test in the Alaska wilderness shows how far the U.S. military and American drone companies lag behind China in the technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/technology/israel-iran-psychological-warfare.html
Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare

Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.

Researchers: during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in unprecedented psychological warfare using AI content and social media to spread propaganda (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/technology/israel-iran-psychological-warfa…

Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.

SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us…

Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.

How Wall Street is embracing crypto, spurred in part by political opportunism, as some executives fear the rush may risk the safety of personal bank accounts (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/wall-street-banks-cryp…

Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024
Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

A deep dive on Big Tech's AI energy boom as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google become major players, leading to fears that individuals' and SMBs' rates may rise (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-en…

Big Tech’s A.I. Boom Is Reordering the U.S. Power Grid
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.