“Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning,” announced Northwestern Medicine, citing a new study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers Read more…
President Biden on Monday urged American companies to put up their cyber-defenses, citing “evolving intelligence that the Russian Government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks” against the U.S. “The Federal Government can’t defend against this threat alone,” Biden said in a lengthy statement released by the White House. He called Read more…
A judge on Brazil’s Supreme Court has reversed a ban on Telegram, two days after blocking the messaging app for ignoring orders. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said the company missed the court’s emails. “We complied with an earlier court decision in late February and responded with a suggestion to send Read more…
On March 1, after a week of horror in Ukraine, reports came out that Russia’s censorship office had threatened to block Russian Wikipedia. A 32-year-old who asked to be called Alexander soon made a plan to download a local copy of Russian-language Wikipedia to keep with him in eastern Russia. Read more…
Hundreds of thousands of sites use the OAuth protocol to let visitors login using their existing accounts with companies like Google, Facebook, or Apple. Instead of having to create an account on the new site, visitors can use an account that they already have — and the magic of OAuth Read more…
NASA JPL announced a cosmic milestone with the confirmed discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets (planets located outside our solar system). A new batch of 65 planets joined the NASA Exoplanet Archive on Monday, triggering a celebratory mood. “It’s not just a number,” Exoplanet Archive science lead Jessie Christiansen said in Read more…
According to OpenAI CEO and former president of Y Combinator, Sam Altman, college education in the U.S. “is nearer to collapsing than it appears.” He writes in a Twitter thread: Most of all, it’s clearly a bad deal for many students, or we wouldn’t have the student debt crisis. Cancelling Read more…