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Friday, July 08, 2022

Too Clever By Half

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
— George Sand, born in 1804


 Too Clever By Half Epsilon Theory


EXCLUSIVE: Executives At Winnings Appliances Linked Business Settle ‘Insolvent Trading’ Allegation


Former NSW councillor Clifton Wong was found dead in his office mere days after giving evidence to ICAC about his colleagues alleged corruption

 A man has admitted to shooting the former PM during a campaign event in the city of Nara, police say.

CEO Secrets: Airtasker boss on his email regret CEO Secrets: Airtasker boss on his email regret Close Tim Fung, co-founder and CEO of Australian tech firm Airtasker, shares his business advice for our CEO Secrets series 


Policy Strategies for Addressing Current Threats to the U.S. Nursing Workforce NEJM. “We contend that there isn’t a shortage of nurses, but a shortage of hospitals that provide nurses with safe work environments and adequate pay and benefits. ”


THERE’S A NEW KIND OF PENTAQUARK AND A FIRST-EVER PAIR OF TETRAQUARKS:  CERN scientists discover three ‘exotic’ subatomic particles.

I don’t know. This sounds dirty to me. 

My team is understaffed and I’m drowning in work – help!


Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?

“We’re trying things out with words, and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, but the enjoyment is in the trying” Words  

 

BREAKING: Pfizer has hired an army of union-busters Labor Lab

 

Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Quanta. Fascinating!


How Japan Achieved One of The World’s Lowest Covid Death Rates Bloomberg. “If the US hadJapan’s death rate, only 82,000 people would have died. Not 1 million+.” 


Know thyself," commanded the oracle at Delphi. Is any meaningful self-knowledge revealed by a Fitbit?  Know thyself 


 The Wheels Have Come Off Electric Vehicles
Bloomberg
 Who Is Liable when AI Kills?
Scientific American
 Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China's Expanding Surveillance State
NYTimes
 An Invisible Cage: How China Is Policing the Future
NYTimes
 China lured graduate jobseekers into digital espionage
ArsTechnica
 Internet Explorer Shutdown to Cause Japan Problems 'For Months'
Financial Times
 School Surveillance Will Never Protect Kids From Shootings
WiReD
 UK plan to scrap cookie consent boxes will make it easier to spy on web users
The Guardian
 "Whoops. That Feeling When the AG of the most populous state publishes a list of where all the handguns are...
twitter viz geoff goodfellow
 Supercookies Have Privacy Experts Sounding the Alarm
WiReD
 Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.
NBC News
 DARPA report exposes blockchain vulnerabilities
exodus
 'Mystery rocket' that crashed into the Moon baffles NASA scientists
Chron
 Mega says it can't decrypt your files. New POC exploit shows otherwise.
ArsTechnica
 The Assessments of the Swiss Post E-Voting System
Andrew Appel
 2022 Zero-day in-the-wild exploitation
Maddie Stone
 Ocean Freight Shipping Costs Are Driving Goods Prices Higher
ProPublica
 ZuoRAT Trojan
WiReD
 Sophisticated attacks against range of SOHO routers
ArsTechnica
 Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for`Responsible AI'
NYTimes
 The Race to Hide Your Voice
WiReD
 Amazon demonstrates Alexa mimicking the voice of a deceased relative
CNBC
 South Carolina mom says baby monitor was hacked; Experts say many devices are vulnerable
NPR
 St. John's woman loses home after Phoenix pay fiasco
CBC
 "These Period Tracker Apps Say They Put Privacy First. Here's What We Found.
Consumer Reports
 FCC asks Google, Apple to remove TikTok due to data privacy concerns at Chinese-owned company TikTok
CBC
 Lost and Found: USB Sticks With Data on 460,000 People
NYTimes
 Some Crypto Exchanges Already Secretly Insolvent
Forbes
 Unintended Centralities in Distributed [Blockchain] Ledgers
via Lauren W.
 Crypto Crash Widens Divide Between Rich and Amateur Traders
NYTimes
 Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase providing "Geo Tracking Data" to ICE
The Intercept
 Crypto traceability and market rules agreed by EU lawmakers
TechCrunch
 Crypto investors' hot streak ends as harsh 'winter' descends
Boston Globe
 Alex Mashinky's Celsius crypto bank draws probe by five states
WashPost
 LOL Headline of the Day
LW
 When customers say their money was stolen on Zelle, banks often refuse to pay
NYTimes
 Planned Parenthood Privacy
WashPost
 Re: Micropatching on the fly
John Levine
 Re: A Periodic Issue
Steven J. Greenwald
 Re: Long-term planning and Optimization
Martin Ward Martin Ward
 Re: It is 2022. My coffee mug wants me to log in, wants to know my location, and if it can send me promotional emails...
geoff goodfellow
 AT&T Fiber Optic outage update
PGN

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