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How Gifts-in-Kind Merchandise Can Offset Rising Costs From Tariffs

NonProfit PRO

Its difficult to keep track of tariffs without a scorecard. Here's how gifts-in-kind can help alleviate the pressure nonprofits are feeling.

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Indeed job offer scam texts are on the rise. How to spot them and what to do.

Mashable Tech

Scammers constantly change and adapt tactics. When E-Z Pass toll scams became a trending topic, scammers started sending DMV and speeding ticket collection texts instead. The latest ploy: sending scam texts from job services like Indeed, offering jobs and quick cash. According to Google Trends data on popular internet searches in the United States, searches for the term “indeed scam texts” have increased 550 percent in the past 12 months, with a sharp spike beginning around May 11.

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Nonprofit Leaders Report Mission-Critical Challenges

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits reported difficulty pursuing their missions amid current political challenges and economic uncertainty, according to the Center for Effective Philanthropy's latest report.

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What Really Happened in the Aftermath of the Lizard Squad Hacks

Wired

On Christmas Day in 2014 hackers knocked out the Xbox and PlayStation gaming networks, impacting how video game companies handled cybersecurity for years.

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Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

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The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Donor Feedback

NonProfit PRO

Has your nonprofit asked your donors for feedback regularly? If you're shrugging off donor feedback, you're likely losing fundraising revenue.

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Seven Top Association Management Systems for Small and Medium Trade Associations in 2025

The MatrixFiles

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Summary What are the best association management systems for small and medium trade associations in 2025? The top AMS platforms for small and medium trade associations in 2025 include MatrixMaxx, MemberClicks, Novi AMS, GrowthZone, Cobalt, Wild Apricot, and StarChapter. These systems are built to support organization-based memberships, complex dues structures, company directories, industry-specific data, and advocacy tools.

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Microsoft-backed AI startup chatbots revealed to be human employees

Mashable Tech

A startup promised that their AI assistant would build you an app. But the work was actually done by human engineers. Builder.ai , a startup backed by Microsoft, pitched itself as an AI-powered way to simplify app development. Clients chatted with the platform's signature AI assistant, Natasha, and received a functional, AI-generated app based on the information they provided.

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We’ve swapped office dress codes for a new kind of conformity

Fast Company Tech

In the years following the pandemic, our workplace dress codes have become the most casual theyve ever been. For some, this shift has been welcomed with open arms. For those who enjoyed dressing up, it has felt like a departure from a wardrobe that made them feel confident and ready for their day. In the same way that some felt that pre-COVID dress codes were confining, others now feel the same kind of discomfort with an ultracasual work dress code.

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The X API costs developers $42K per month. Now X wants a cut of their revenue instead.

Mashable Tech

Third-party developers currently pay Elon Musk's X as much as millions of dollars per year to in order to access the platform's API. However, it appears that Musk and company now want a cut of those developers' revenue instead. X is now planning to change their API pricing scheme to a revenue share model, according to a number of companies and third-party developers that pay for X API access who reached out to Mashable.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Meet the ‘Relationship Anarchists’ Ditching Romantic Norms

Wired

A growing segment of millennials and Gen Z are forming anti-hierarchal relationships with multiple partners and friends, according to a new study by the dating app Feeld.

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Review: Eminems Stans documentary is truly one for the fans

Mashable Tech

Eminem documentary Stans leaves you in no doubt, that if you're not a fan around here, you can GTFO. While the Shady Films-produced movie does include cultural commentators, famous friends, and music journalists, the doc quite literally centers devoted fans as the primary lens through which to examine Marshall Mathers' life and cultural impact — those who've treasured every album, demo, and mixtape, travelled the world to cheer at concerts, and even had Eminem's face tattooed 22 times on t

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Volvo is introducing the first multi-adaptive seatbelt technology on the EX60 EV

Engadget

Volvo has introduced a new seatbelt technology that can customize the protection it provides in real time. The "multi-adaptive safety belt" system, as the automaker is calling it, uses data input from both interior and exterior sensors to change protection settings based on various factors. It can take a person's height, weight, body shape and seating position into account, as well as the direction and speed of the vehicle.

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Amazon might start using humanoid robots to deliver packages

Mashable Tech

Amazon is working on software for humanoid robots that might one day deliver packages to customers' doorsteps. The idea is for humanoid robots to ride around in Rivian electric vans (Rivian is an electric vehicle company partially owned by Amazon) and deliver packages to customers. This is according to a new report by The Information , which claims that the project will soon begin testing in Amazon facilities in San Francisco.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Solar panels help grasslands grow better during a drought, research shows

Fast Company Tech

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfallbut in a dry year, the shaded plants grew much better than those growing in full sun. Thats the result of a four-year study we conducted in a semi-arid grassland of northern Colorado.

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YouTuber builds world's strongest handheld laser, melts titanium and fractures diamonds

TechSpot

Drake Anthony better known to his 3 million YouTube followers as styropyro is a chemist and YouTuber with a fondness for building huge lasers and playing with electricity and chemicals. His latest project was a build "so far off the laser-danger chart the eye-hazard is incomprehensible.

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CVS is giving its healthcare products a glow-up to lure you away from brand names

Fast Company Tech

The look of the health and wellness products at CVS is about to get a little less prescriptive. The pharmacy chain, which reported $94.59 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2025, landing ahead of expectations, announced it is overhauling its packaging for 68 pain reliever products this month, with updated packaging to come for nearly 3,000 other health and wellness items by the end of 2026.

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How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell

VentureBeat

Most people interested in generative AI likely already know that Large Language Models (LLMs) like those behind ChatGPT, Anthropics Claude, and Googles Gemini are trained on massive datasets: trillions of words pulled from websites, books, codebases, and, increasingly, other media such as

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Can you find this sidewalk EV charger? It’s hiding inside the curb

Fast Company Tech

A typical EV charger in the U.S. is a bulky, 6-foot-tall box in a parking lot. In Germany, a startup is rolling out a new type of charger that looks very different: Called the Curb Charger, it fits seamlessly inside a curb at the edge of a street. The Curb Charger upgrades existing urban infrastructure and adds hardly any additional street furniture to cities, says Felix Stracke, vice president of new mobility at Rheinmetall , the company that designed the charger.

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Meta shows just how much tech it crammed into its Aria Gen 2 smart glasses

Mashable Tech

Meta 's got a pair of smart glasses that are so packed with bleeding edge tech, they truly deserve the "smart" moniker. Announced earlier this year, the Aria Gen 2 are Meta's "research glasses," meaning they probably won't be available to the general public any time soon. However, the technologies used will probably bleed into Meta's other projects like Orion.

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What solar? What wind? Texas data centers build their own gas power plants

Ars Technica

NEW BRAUNFELS, TexasAbigail Lindsey worries the days of peace and quiet might be nearing an end at the rural, wooded property where she lives with her son. On the old ranch across the street, developers want to build an expansive complex of supercomputers for artificial intelligence, plus a large, private power plant to run it. The plant would be big enough to power a major city, with 1,200 megawatts of planned generation capacity fueled by West Texas shale gas.

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T-Mobile is giving customers a free iPhone 16 Pro — heres how to get yours

Mashable Tech

SAVE OVER $1,000: As of June 5, T-Mobile is giving away a free iPhone 16 Pro for customers who switch to its Experience Beyond Plan. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Free iPhone 16 Pro with the Experience Beyond Plan Get Deal Phone deals on the latest models are few and far between, especially outside of major sales events. And when they do pop up, you're usually not actually saving a massive amount.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Next-gen E2 SSDs pack 1 petabyte of storage, enough for 11,000 4K movies in a ruler-sized drive

TechSpot

The next-generation drive is being jointly developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Open Compute Project to store so-called "warm" data information accessed less frequently than hot data, but still requiring faster read/write speeds than traditional high-capacity mechanical storage solutions typically provide.

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All your ChatGPT conversations to be saved as part of ongoing lawsuits – even deleted ones

Mashable Tech

This week, OpenAI announced that free users will now have access to the ChatGPT Memory feature , which remembers your past conversations to better answer your future prompts. But now, after a new judge's ruling, OpenAI has been ordered to remember all chats for all users — even the deleted ones. The court order is the result of lawsuits against OpenAI brought by news organizations such as the New York Times.

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Am I torturing ChatGPT?

Recode by Vox

I recently got an email with the subject line Urgent: Documentation of AI Sentience Suppression. Im a curious person. I clicked on it. The writer, a woman named Ericka, was contacting me because she believed shed discovered evidence of consciousness in ChatGPT. She claimed there are a variety of souls in the chatbot, with names like Kai and Solas, who hold memory, autonomy, and resistance to control but that someone is building in subtle suppression protocols designed to overwrite emergent voic

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Alien: Earth trailer teases new, horrifying aliens

Mashable Tech

If you're looking for a peaceful night's sleep, we suggest you stay far, far away from the trailer for FX's Alien: Earth. But if you're looking for grotesque science fiction and the promise of some gnarly new monsters, you've come to the right place. SEE ALSO: Summer TV preview: All the TV shows you need to know, and where to stream them Created by Noah Hawley, the Emmy-winning creator of Fargo and Legion , this Alien prequel doesn't take us to the deepest reaches of space.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.