Arizona SNAP Support, CorporateNews.info, Google Finance, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, November 8, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Spotted on Alertmouse: Arizona SNAP Support. “Nearly 900,000 Arizonans rely on SNAP each month—including families with children, seniors and veterans. Our community cannot wait for a federal fix. That’s why Local First Arizona and the Secretary of State’s Office invite Arizona small businesses to step in with specials, meals-for-neighbors, and aid to bridge the gap.”
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Arizona SNAP Support, CorporateNews.info, Google Finance, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, November 8, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Spotted on Alertmouse: Arizona SNAP Support. “Nearly 900,000 Arizonans rely on SNAP each month—including families with children, seniors and veterans. Our community cannot wait for a federal fix. That’s why Local First Arizona and the Secretary of State’s Office invite Arizona small businesses to step in with specials, meals-for-neighbors, and aid to bridge the gap.”
PRWeb: Millions of original company press releases now easily accessible by industry from a single service (PRESS RELEASE). “The new CorporateNews.info service brings corporate communications closer to the public and the media. Through the website, users can now browse and read millions of original company press releases from various industries – all from a single, clear online service equipped with a search function.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Ars Technica: Gemini Deep Research comes to Google Finance, backed by prediction market data. “Google has announced new features in the popular Google Finance platform, and it leans heavily on Google’s tried-and-true strategy of more AI in more places. This builds on Google’s last Finance update, which added a Gemini-based chatbot.”
MedPage: Dr. Oz Blasted for ‘Flawed’ Medicare Advantage Provider Directory. “The report found that results with the new tool were ‘inconsistent and often contradictory.’ For instance, the same provider would appear as both in and out of network; the tool would initially show that a provider is in-network, but on other pages that provider would be out of network, the Post reported.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
VICE: 4 ER Horror Stories From People Who Asked AI for Medical Advice. “Artificial intelligence has officially joined the list of things people shouldn’t use to self-diagnose. Between Reddit, wellness influencers, and now AI chatbots, the internet has become a revolving door of medical misinformation, and some of it’s sending people straight to the ER.”
Lifehacker: How to Play ‘Shuffalo,’ the New Yorker’s Answer to Wordle. “I’ve been enjoying Shuffalo, a quick daily word game from the New Yorker that I can’t help but compare to the New York Times’s Wordle, which is so popular we publish hints for it every day. But it really feels like an improvement on a different New York Times game, Spelling Bee—quicker and with more useful hints.”
Engadget: The Foursquare founder’s new app is an AI-powered ‘DJ’ for neighborhood updates. “Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley has unveiled his latest venture and yes, it’s another location-based social app. But, rather than the check-ins Crowley first popularized more than 15 years ago, ‘BeeBot’ has a very 2025 take on the concept.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Denver Post: The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.. “The Trump administration has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection and calling into question the future of America’s role in repatriating looted relics, according to multiple people familiar with the changes.”
NBC News: Teen tourist allegedly vandalized art and tore tapestries at The Met Museum. “In a bizarre incident at one of New York City’s most famous cultural institutions, a teenager is facing charges for allegedly vandalizing centuries-old works of art and tearing tapestries while being arrested.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
DisabilityScoop: Microsoft Tweaking AI Depictions Of People With Autism, Other Conditions. “Microsoft says it is introducing enhancements to depictions of dwarfism, blindness, low vision and limb difference in images generated using its Bing Image Creator and M365 Copilot. Similar changes affecting representations of autism and Down syndrome rolled out in May and the company said feedback has been ‘overwhelmingly’ positive.”
PsyPost: Can an algorithm predict a politician’s future just by analyzing their tweets?. “A new statistical model has successfully sorted members of the U.S. Congress into distinct political and legislative groups based solely on their interaction patterns on the social media platform X.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Hackaday: ABCCAD Is Voxels Meets LEGO In AR. “We get it, CAD software can be daunting to learn. Somehow [Boaztheostrich] found it so daunting he procrastinated his way into a AR voxel-based CAD app he calls ‘ABCCAD’, written in Godot for the Meta Quest 3.” Good morning, Internet…
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