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We now know a lot about the security of the Rapiscan 522 B x-ray system used to scan carry-on baggage in airports worldwide. Billy Rios, director of threat intelligence at Qualys, got himself one and analyzed it. And he presented his results at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit this week. It’s worse than you might…
A visualization of every single job in the world (or at least in the EU)
The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a search while delaying notice to the suspect of the search. Known as a “sneak and peek” warrant, law...
The House Judiciary Committee has plans for a “members only” meeting next week to discuss Section 702 of the FISA Amendment Acts, the law the NSA relies on to operate its notorious PRISM surveillance program and to tap into the backbone of the Internet, also known as “upstream” collection. While we...
When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to a WSU study of Alaska Permanent Fund payments.
An estimated 59.2% of U.S. adults rate their lives well enough to be categorized as "thriving" exceeding the previous record-high estimate of 57.3% from 2017.
Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.
China's Social Credit System is bad: It's both unique and part of a global trend. This should freak you out.
Student performance across OECD countries has continued to decline, reaching the lowest average ever recorded by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in mathematics and reading. Across the OECD, one in five 15-year-old students is now a low performer in science, mathematics and reading, up…
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A complete explanation of how e, è, é, ê, and ë are used in French, with rules, examples and pronunciation.
Using your phone as a dumb terminal with a Bluetooth keyboard
by Worst-Online-Dater
New CU Boulder research finds that overweight populations have a 22% higher mortality risk than those of healthy weight, while obese populations have as much as
Nearly 30 percent of workers in the U.S. need a license to perform their job. It is important to realize that occupational licenses are not mere state-sponsored certificates to signal that workers have completed some level of training; occupational licensing laws forbid people from practicing in their occupation…
I’ve been a Twitter user and fan since 2007. With Twitter’s future looking a bit grim, I started looking around if there’s another place to go.
Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s largest health problems today.
I don't trust Signal because it pretends to be things which it provably isn't and forces use of their controlled the network. This means that if Signal wanted to, they could intercept messages. In this article I show receipts, that while each individual issue is not back-breaking: casts huge doubts to me on if i…
Holy smokes: For the full Twitter experience on Mac, visit Twitter on web. ???? https://t.co/fuPJa3nVky — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 16, 2018 I’m glad Twitter got rid of all of the Nazis and Russian bots on their platform before this.
A step-by-step guide to paint a crosswalk and keep your community safe.
A single online order now generates ten emails. A look at how retail email got this far out of hand.
If you summarize your idea in your first sentence, writing "TLDR" is superfluous. The English Language already has tools to summarize and communicate your thoughts. Leverage existing conventions, which are accepted by a larger population, and you will engage more users and succeed in communicating your idea. "TLDR"…
