As the spring gardening season begins, Cornell University experts offer advice on everything from boosting vegetable yields and cutting fertilizer costs to planting native species, supporting pollinators, and selecting trees that promote healthy, sustainable gardens.

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Meta announced it is cracking down on content aggregators. Accounts on Instagram that regularly repost content they didn’t create, or primarily share other people’s work as photos and carousels, will no longer be eligible for recommendations across the app.

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Spotify is rolling out voluntary AI labels in a beta test. The update allows listeners to view AI involvement directly in the ‘Song Credits’ section. However, the system relies entirely on voluntary disclosures from creators and rights holders. The following Cornell University experts are available for comment.

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Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He says government bailouts like this are not as rare as people think.

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New reports suggest Meta is installing tracking software that can capture mouse movements and keystrokes on U.S.-based employees' computers in order to use the data to train artificial intelligence agents.

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David Silbey, a professor of history who specializes in military history and defense policy, says it’s a recurring ethical and strategic test for the U.S.

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Cathy Creighton, director of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab, says Secretary Chavez-DeRemer spent her time in the labor department dismantling protections around the American workforce. 

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Freezing temperatures and snow showers in parts of New York have some wondering about the early blooms. The National Weather Service says cold conditions are driven by an arctic air mass.

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to encourage expanded research into certain psychedelic drugs to treat mental health conditions. The FDA is expected to issue national priority vouchers to three psychedelics, which will allow the review of those drugs to be approved quickly.

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Christopher Anderson, a professor of operations, technology and information management,  and an expert in the hospitality and airline industries, says European carriers have already begun cutting flights, grounding aircraft and warning of weaker reservations/bookings as the industry tries to balance higher costs against consumer demand. 

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