Published 1 July 2022 comments Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, Getty Images By Philippa Roxby and Michelle Roberts BBC News Covid infections are rising again across t

Nicer plots of the terrible situation we've put ourselves into. First a bird's eye view of how the frequency of substitution is increasing in Canada. This is empirical data showing variant substitutio

See more headlines from our Daily Covid Briefing Japan’s Secret to Taming the Coronavirus: Peer Pressure The country has never mandated masks or vaccinations, but it’s evaded the worst of Covid, thank

I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for about twelve years now, and I’ve been making a decent living from it for about four or five. (I struggled in obscurity for a long time, no one is an overnig

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The United States’ newly dominant Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, are evading vaccine and infection-acquired immunity, scientists have found. The subvariants recently caused a fresh wave of infect

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With millions of people out of the workforce due to Long COVID, and millions more who will likely be permanently disabled by Long COVID within the next year or two, it’s inevitable that staff shortage

I interviewed a few people in the cybersecurity industry who have been greatly harmed in the COVID pandemic. Frank Barton is a cybersecurity-minded sysadmin in the higher education sector. He has been

Myth: “COVID is over!” Fact: According to John Hopkins University data , as of June 16th, 2022, daily new confirmed COVID cases are increasing in the United States, Germany, France, Brazil, the UK, an

9 min read · Jun 16, 2022 -- I have a rare advantage when it comes to communicating COVID information to cybersecurity people — I speak your language. IT and computer science jargon is to my cybersecu

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Disclaimer: if you are looking for a strictly technical article, the ones I usually write, you will be disappointed. This blogpost is mainly my two cents on the way we, cybersecurity professionals, us

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Guest Essay How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back Feb. 25, 2022 Credit... Mikel Jaso By Mr. Urban is the author of Wait but Why , a stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

I have a sinking feeling again... a bad feeling I had 2 years ago, when Wuhan was in a state of panic trying to control the initial outbreak, that the events in China could ripple across the world. I

VOZNESENSK, Ukraine—A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director, Mykhailo Sokurenko, spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldi

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It’s so simple that it can be easy to overlook: In the commotion of daily life, people forget to thank their partner for the myriad things they do. During the pandemic, significant others have made ev

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U .S. health officials on Wednesday reported the country’s first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, in a person in California. The Covid-19 case was identified by the California and San F

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As I write about in the philosophy of Westworld , life is really about meaning loops. They’re the structures that make us want to strive and improve, and that make life matter. Everybody has them. For

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