The saying “You’re the average of the five people spend the most time with” is still true, but has been redefined by the digital world. The Impact of Digital Influencers The introduction of podcasts,

Will AI remove jobs or add them? Will it help people or harm them? Will it create prosperity or create despair? The answer is yes. It’s not one or the other. They’ll all happen simultaneously. The bet

Members of the John Snow Project editorial board were part of the Delphi consensus, which set out how to address the challenges posed by SARS-CoV-2 and end the pandemic. The measures proposed include

Lion Design There’s a lot going on, so let’s jump right in. We’re definitely heading into a Covid wave . Wastewater surveillance has shown infections almost doubling over the last month. This wave fol

Grandfailure In Chinese mythology, the dragon king commands oceans, lakes, rivers, and rain. He controls dragons and sea creatures. He makes the weather. He would be a good god to pray to right now. H

Ever since some of the earliest projections of climate change were made back in the 1970s, they have been remarkably accurate at predicting the rate at which global temperatures would rise. For decade

Grandfailure The California Supreme Court has ruled : If you catch Covid from work and then a family member dies from it, you can’t sue your employer. The ruling was unanimous. Their reasoning might m

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reput

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Dzmitry You might’ve seen that India recently banned exports for non-basmati rice this week in an effort to control inflation. It’s a big deal because they produce 40 percent of the world’s rice. This

There’s frequent discussion now about how AI will help hackers do X and Y. Phishing and BEC scams are at the top of the list. And there’s also lots of talk about AI helping with static code analysis,

MadMat The media wants you to believe the pandemic “ really is over ,” but they’re lying. They’ve been lying, and they’re going to keep lying. Ordinary people like us have figured out that they’re man

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Lion Design Recently, a burger joint called In-n-Out banned masks for all of their employees. You can only wear one with a doctor’s note now, and you can’t even wear your own. You have to wear one the

Universeal There’s an opinion piece in The New York Times heralding a new “positive milestone” for Covid. It declares that excess deaths have magically dropped back down to where they were before the

Unsupervised Learning Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter/podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a post-AI world. It combines original ideas and anal

NorseGhost How many times has the pandemic ended now? I’ve lost count. The pandemic officially “ended” back in May, but the virus just won’t cooperate with the affluent decider class. As I wrote the o

NEWS 11 July 2023 The first genome-wide search for long-COVID risk factors could pave the way for larger studies. Heidi Ledford View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed G

By Jay Jacobs“Infosec twitter” has been used to describe the vibrant, active and often enthusiastic community of security practitioners working in and around the industry. It’s been a source of insigh

Grandfailure As Covid rips through Japan, alerting us to the possibility of a deadly new variant, bureaucrats in D.C. sit back and debate whether or not they’ll even offer most of us updated vaccines

June 29: Updated with statement from Facebook, from the author of the study, and from the editor of the academic journal that published the study. Facebook is the best human research lab ever. There’s

The ranks of retirees are growing much faster today than the number of new workers, ushering in an unprecedented graying of America that will reshape our workforce and economy. For the past 50 years,

Grandfailure An immunocompromised woman recently got fired for wearing an N95 mask to work. She can’t prove it. That’s the whole point. They didn’t have to make it official. They simply made her job i

Almost half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with chemicals known as "forever chemicals," according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. Video above: What are harmful '

In eight months, Erica Marsh has become one of the most consistently viral left-wing voices on Twitter, gaining more than 130,000 followers for her hyper-liberal, often melodramatic opinions on the bi

Grandfailure Banks and corporate landlords hate remote work. It’s killing their financial empires. For two years, they’ve launched endless propaganda campaigns to motivate and shame employees back int

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Photo: Suzanne Cordeiro/Getty Images More than three years after Russian hackers compromised SolarWinds and embedded a backdoor in its premier software product, the Securities and Exchange Commission

Published 30 June Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic Image source, Getty Images By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor There has been an unusual rise in the number of chil

Oil and gas companies in West Texas released hundreds of tons of toxic gases into the air last week as a record-breaking heatwave drove pressure inside pipelines and compressors to dangerously high le

I n the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London , the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchfork

The whole universe is humming. Actually, the whole universe is Mongolian throat singing. Every star, every planet, every continent, every building, every person is vibrating along to the slow cosmic b

In the throes of a depressive episode, my therapist lobbed a question that detonated in my mind. “What are you avoiding?” A question that seemed innocuous at first, but it was like a grenade, explodin

The ocean waters surrounding the United Kingdom and much of Europe are baking in an unprecedented marine heat wave that scientists say is being intensified by human-caused climate change. Scientists a

In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets. Squarespace announced today that it “entered

Large language models (LLMs) are eerily human-like: in casual conversations, they mimic humans with near-perfect fidelity. Their language capabilities hold promise for some fields — and spell trouble

I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquiring team and executives welcomed us and treated us well. We joined with gr

Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit of stealthy hackers. But wh