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A new study, forthcoming in The Accounting Review from Jessica Watkins, assistant professor of accountancy in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, found that, alongside 8-K reports featuring negative news, managers tend to push out simpler, unrelated press releases to divert attention from the…
Extending the .world As some may know, I run several other Fediverse instances next to mastodon.world. When I decided it was time to a...
On January 15, the Dutch government was forced to resign amidst a scandal around its child-care benefits scheme. Systems that were meant to detect misuse of the benefits scheme, mistakenly labelled over 20,000 parents as fraudsters. More crucially, a disproportionate amount of those labelled as fraudsters had an…
An Air India flight from New Delhi to San Francisco diverted to Russia after experiencing problems with one of its engines.
In recent years, research showed that many professionals consider their work to be socially useless. Various explanations have been proposed for the phenomenon. The much-discussed “bullshit jobs theory” by the American anthropologist David Graeber, for example, states that some jobs are objectively useless and that…
Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
Drugs cause addiction*. It is a rhetoric deeply ingrained into the American psyche based on a series of rat experimentations that placed one rat alone in a cage with two water bottles--one containing cocaine or heroin, the other just water. The rat chose the cocaine- or heroin-laced water every time until it died. The…
When BU’s Fallou Ngom found a note written by his late father, in a language that looked like Arabic but sounded like Wolof, it opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.
"Infosec Twitter," a vibrant community of security practitioners, known for its insight, inspiration, and entertainment, is coming to an end.
A central puzzle in evolutionary biology is that of spontaneous altruism. When two creatures interact, why might one sacrifice something of value in order to help the other? Why, if I'm rich, might I want to help the poor? In one view of the problem, there's n
Despite dealing with issues like depression, suicide, domestic violence, and PTSD, these apps share data freely and raise many security concerns
How many cardiac arrest survivors later have a conscious recollection of their death experience—and are their recollections accurate?
In many contexts, the individual value from consuming a product or service increases as more people consume it. The more of your peers who join TikTok, for example, the more value you probably see in joining yourself. Building on this logic, it’s possible that products like social media not only offer greater utility…
In the last few years, the pandemic and inflation in the U.S. have upended peoples’ lives in different levels making young people adjust their retirement goals.
When should you use someone's family name first? And is Kim a first name or a last name? The Asia Media Centre looks at Asian naming conventions.
Heat pumps work even in very, very cold weather. Thanks to technological advancements in recent decades, heat pumps keep your home toasty warm even when the temperature drops dramatically. In fact, eight of the major heat pump companies — Bosch, Carrier, Daikin, Johnson Controls, Lennox, Midea, Rheem, and Trane…
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom. As more companies crack down on browser exten...
Ethan Marcotte's book, "You Deserve a Tech Union," provides a mix of practical guidelines and steps that tech workers can take to form a union.
Electric vehicle (EV) owners tend to leave their cars charging overnight, putting pressure on the grid. This habit must change, Stanford researchers say.
Do you know what got black currants banned? They nearly destroyed a huge part of American forests. Find out how this healthy berry became a threat.
New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) received live access to the hundreds of surveillance cameras that comprise the Union Square Business Improvement District’s (USBID) camera network in anticipation of potential...
Open-source software (OSS) sits at the center of almost every digital technology moving the world since the early 1980s—laptops, cellphones, widespread internet connectivity, cloud computing, social media, automation, all the rainbow flavors of e-commerce, and even secure communications and anti-censorship tools.
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