“What do astronomers eat for breakfast on the day that their $10 billion telescope launches into space?” asks the New York Times. “Their fingernails.” The worst-case scenario is “You work for years and it all goes up in a puff of smoke,” they’re told by Marcia Rieke of the University Read more…
The Wikimedia Foundation banned seven high-level users in September and temporarily demoted a dozen others for abuses “unprecedented in scope and nature.” Slashdot reader harrymcc explains: The foundation accused these volunteers of biasing it in favor of the Chinese government’s viewpoint. This incident involves beatings, doxxings, and harassment designed to Read more…
“Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world,” writes a business columnist for the Los Angeles Times. “But to see price hikes of as much as 675% Read more…
Adobe shares plummeted 10% on Thursday after the software maker issued a revenue forecast for the fiscal first quarter that fell well shy of analysts’ estimates. CNBC reports: The stock suffered its second-worst drop in the past decade, surpassed only by a 15% slide in mid-March of last year, when Read more…
Necklaces and accessories claiming to “protect” people from 5G mobile networks have been found to be radioactive. The BBC reports: The Dutch authority for nuclear safety and radiation protection (ANVS) issued a warning about ten products it found gave off harmful ionizing radiation. It urged people not to use the Read more…
Previously, one assumption about the 10 out of 10 Log4j security vulnerability was that it was limited to exposed vulnerable servers. We were wrong. The security company Blumira claims to have found a new, exciting Log4j attack vector. ZDNet reports: According to Blumira, this newly-discovered Javascript WebSocket attack vector can Read more…
Climate change, the rapid growth of “stablecoins” and financial innovations that led to frenzied trading of GameStop shares early this year are threats to the U.S. financial system that merit closer scrutiny, a Treasury Department-led regulatory panel said on Friday. In its annual report, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Read more…