Leben (Life aka misc)
DEC diagnostics would run on a dead whale. — Mel Ferentz
Leben (Life aka misc)
FBI Chief Warns China Poised To Wreak ‘Real-World Harm’ on US Infrastructure
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in his final interview before stepping down, warned that China poses the greatest long-term threat to U.S. national security, calling it “the defining threat of our generation.” China’s cyber program has stolen more American personal and corporate data than all other nations combined, Wray told CBS Read more…
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‘Snowball Earth’ Evolution Hypothesis Gains New Momentum
What happened during the “Snowball Earth” period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of atmospheric oxygen, forms of multicellular life emerged. Why? The prevailing scientific view is that Read more…
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What If They Ban TikTok and People Keep Using It Anyway?
What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway? Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical loopholes that millions of Americans could find ways to keep TikTok’ing. The law is “Swiss cheese with Read more…
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CES ‘Worst In Show’ Devices Mocked In IFixit Video – While YouTube Inserts Ads For Them
While CES wraps up this week, “Not all innovation is good innovation,” warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit’s Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual “anti-awards ceremony” to call out CES’s “least repairable, least private, and least sustainable products…” (iFixit Read more…
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JPMorgan Chase Requires All Workers To Return To Office Five Days a Week
JPMorgan Chase is summoning all staff back to the office, becoming the latest corporate giant to call time on era of remote and hybrid working sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The US’s largest bank, which has some 316,000 employees worldwide, announced on Friday that all workers on hybrid work schedules Read more…
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Amazon To Halt Some of Its DEI Programs
Amazon said it is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations that have made similar moves in the face of increasing public and legal scrutiny. In a Dec. 16 internal note to staffers that was obtained by CNBC, Candi Castleberry, Amazon’s VP Read more…