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Google and Bing have expanded ad sales suspensions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. Google has temporarily halted ads from serving to Russia-based users, the company announced Thursday. Similarly, Microsoft announced that it will suspend all new sales of its products and services in Russia. Why we care. The two leading search…Continue Reading

Google has released a new home page for Google Analytics 4 properties. Google said “the Home page surfaces information that’s relevant to you based on your behavior in Analytics.” Google added that “you can use the page to monitor traffic, navigate around Analytics, and get insights about your websites and mobile apps.” Google said the…Continue Reading

Microsoft Advertising has announced Ad Creator, a new feature that extracts images from your site so that they can be used in your ads. Ad Creator is currently in pilot; those interested in joining the pilot should contact their account representative. The Ad Creator library within Microsoft Advertising. Image: Microsoft. Why we care. Visuals within…Continue Reading

‘Instead of giving them that risk to calculate, we took it off the table,’ Robert O’Brien said. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R obert O’Brien, Donald Trump’s national-security adviser, this week sought to rally the largest group of conservative lawmakers in the House behind a hawkish approach to countering Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “We need to…Continue Reading

The United States’s promises led Ukraine down the primrose path; the only way to keep them would be to risk World War III. What caused the war now ongoing in Ukraine? One supposes that the first answer just about everybody would agree on is that Putin caused the war. Clearly, that has to be the…Continue Reading

The very system meant to help disabled people can trap them in poverty.In 2012, I turned 21. As a young adult with autism, I faced a stark choice. The special education system which I relied on for most of my teenage years would no longer provide the support and services I needed to function. I…Continue Reading

As Ukraine takes center stage, it is worth considering Vladimir Putin’s alleged orbiting brain, Aleksandr Dugin. HOLLYWOOD—An unlikely, enigmatic president of a superpower makes an audacious move on the world stage. Paid-up intellectuals and under-fed scribblers alike rush to understand the madness. Surely, that’s what this is: the king is mad?Away from Freud’s couch, a…Continue Reading

Without clear language stating that online “safety” does not mean censorship of First Amendment-protected speech, new antitrust bills will only empower Big Tech. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, (D-Connecticut), sponsor of the Open App Markets Act, speaks with aides during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on February 10, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) In…Continue Reading

BAMAKO, Mali — Islamic extremists attacked a military camp in central Mali on Friday, killing at least 27 soldiers and seriously wounding nearly two dozen others in the deadliest attack this year, the state broadcaster said.ORTM reported that the assault happened near the town of Mondoro, not far from Mali’s troubled border with Burkina Faso.Friday’s…Continue Reading