Mon.May 05, 2025

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Google's AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

Futurism

Don't want a tech conglomerate to train its AI model on your website? Too bad Google will do it anyway, thanks to a very convenient workaround. At least, that's more or less what the Silicon Valley behemoth just admitted to in court. As Bloomberg reports , Google said that while it does give publishers the option to opt out of large language model training done by its AI lab, DeepMind , it does n't extend to AI efforts by other parts of the company including the unit in charge of its dominant

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7 Marketing Tactics for When You Don’t Have a Team — or Budget

NonProfit PRO

For nonprofit marketers and social media managers who do it all, here are seven tactics to help you spread the good word about your cause.

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Why Google Gemini’s Pokémon success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Ars Technica

Earlier this year, we took a look at how and why Anthropic's Claude large language model was struggling to beat Pokmon Red (a game, let's remember, designed for young children). But while Claude 3.7 is still struggling to make consistent progress at the game weeks later, a similar Twitch-streamed effort using Google's Gemini 2.5 model managed to finally complete Pokmon Blue this weekend across over 106,000 in-game actions, earning accolades from followers, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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New Data Shows Everyday Donors Are the Key to Sector Resilience

NonProfit PRO

Findings from "The Generosity Report" show nonprofits must reimagine donor engagement strategies around long-term relationship building.

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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 As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Take a Tour of All the Essential Features in ChatGPT

Wired

If you missed WIRED's live, subscriber-only Q&A focused on the software features of ChatGPT, hosted by Reece Rogers, you can watch the replay here.

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How Organizational Management Can Transform Donor Relationships

Bloomerang

Donor relationships are at the heart of every successful nonprofit. These donor connections are established through similar values and loyalty to a cause. When supporters donate, they invest their trust in a charity and the people who carry out its mission. This is why developing and maintaining long-term relationships with donors is one of the most significant responsibilities of a fundraising team.

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How organizations are advancing digital financial inclusion

Candid

Roughly 1.4 billion adults around the world remain unbankeddisproportionately women, rural residents, and individuals earning low or irregular incomes. These groups often face multiple barriers such as distrust of financial institutions, lack of sufficient funds, limited connectivity in rural areas, lack of identification documents, and the resulting high transaction costs, which limit opportunity for economic participation for those who need it most.

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Affordable Nonprofit Web Design Matters

NonProfit PRO

Free Infographic to Affordable Nonprofit Web Design Matters 5 Key Features Nonprofits Should Look For

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How Organizations Thrive In This Age Of Algorithms Without Losing Their Humanity

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In Re-Humanize: How to Build Human-Centric Organizations in the Age of Algorithms , author Phanish Puranam explores how we can design organizations that harmonize digital efficiency with human-centric values, ensuring that both productivity and meaningful work coexist. Drawing from a rich well of research and real-world insights, the books three sections include: Section One : Basic assumptions about what is changing in organizations and what will not.

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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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Mastering Nonprofit Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Free eBook to Mastering Nonprofit Fundraising Your Ultimate Guide to Engaging Donors & Maximizing Impact

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FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas

Wired

As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to survivors in disaster areas, per a memo obtained by WIRED.

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Top 10 Best Practices

NonProfit PRO

Free Infographic to Top 10 Best Practices For Donation Web Page

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SpaceX pushed “sniper” theory with the feds far more than is publicly known

Ars Technica

The rocket was there. And then it decidedly was not. Shortly after sunrise on a late summer morning nearly nine years ago at SpaceX's sole operational launch pad, engineers neared the end of a static fire test. These were still early days for their operation of a Falcon 9 rocket that used super-chilled liquid propellants, and engineers pressed to see how quickly they could complete fueling.

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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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The Checklist

NonProfit PRO

Free eBook to The Checklist Evaluating Your Website's Performance and Effectiveness

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Signal Clone Used by Mike Waltz Pauses Service After Reports It Got Hacked

Wired

The communications app TeleMessage, which was spotted on former US national security adviser Mike Waltz's phone, has suspended all services as it investigates reports of at least one breach.

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ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions

Futurism

OpenAI's tech may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis." As Rolling Stone reports , users on Reddit are sharing how AI has led their loved ones to embrace a range of alarming delusions, often mixing spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies. Friends and family are watching in alarm as users insist they've been chosen to fulfill sacred missions on behalf of sentient AI or nonexistent cosmic powerse chatbot behavior that's just mirroring and wors

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Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again

Wired

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or highno wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

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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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Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack

Ars Technica

Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious code inside the browsers of visitors, where it can steal payment card information and other sensitive data, security researchers said Monday. The infections are the result of a supply-chain attack that compromised at least three software providers with malware that remained dormant for six years and became active only in the last few weeks.

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Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US

Wired

The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies. But its ties to Russias VK, whose CEO has been sanctioned, have researchers sounding the alarm.

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The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It's Hallucinating

Futurism

Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations, a conveniently elegant term the industry uses to denote fabrications that large language models often serve up as fact. And judging by the trajectory of the latest "reasoning" models, which the likes of Google and AI have designed to "think" through a problem before answering, the problem is getting worse not better.

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Visa launches ‘Intelligent Commerce’ platform, letting AI agents swipe your card—safely, it says

VentureBeat

Visa launches Intelligent Commerce platform enabling AI assistants to make secure purchases with your credit card, transforming online shopping with personalized automation and consumer-controlled spending limits.

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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.

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Herman Miller’s New Mexico collection bottles the friendship between three creative geniuses

Fast Company Tech

Youve probably heard of Charles and Ray Eames , the designers behind the iconic Eames chair and ottoman , and Georgia OKeefe, the trailblazing artist. But you might not know about how these artists were connected during their careersor the art that came from their camaraderie. Herman Miller , in collaboration with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum , is bringing that history to light with a new limited-run furniture line.

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Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face

VentureBeat

An attractive proposition for commercial enterprises and indie developers looking to build speech recognition and transcription services.

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Meta’s AI social feed is a privacy disaster waiting to happen

Fast Company Tech

Since ChatGPT sparked the generative AI revolution in November 2022, interacting with AI has felt like using a digital confession boothprivate, intimate, and shielded from public view (unless you choose to share). Thats about to change dramatically with Metas rollout of social features in its stand-alone AI app , released last week. Those quiet queriesWhats this embarrassing rash?

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IBM thinks that over a billion new applications will be built with gen AI : Here’s how they’re going to help that happen with agentic AI

VentureBeat

IBM details its plans to help enterprises to actually do more with AI, with an expanded set of agentic AI capabilities.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!