'There's mum and dad's house' - wildfire razes swathe of Jasper The scale of the damage remains unclear, but officials estimate 30% to 50% of buildings in the tourist town may have been destroyed. 13
I recently compared the stats from LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter) for one of my more popular posts. In the first 24 hours of that post, X accumulated 304 impressions from 8,426 followers, and Linke
Do you notice something in the following HTTP response? Based on this small portion of the HTTP response, you can assume that this web application is likely prone to an XSS vulnerability. How is this
Alejandra Palma lives in perpetual fear of the next storm. “We are constantly checking the weather,” said Palma, who co-owns Root Hill Cafe in Brooklyn’s low-lying Gowanus neighborhood. “If we see tha
While Finland rolls out bird flu vaccines to its vulnerable populations, the U.S. has done virtually nothing to prepare, and nothing to respond to the rampant spread on dairy farms. The USDA only plan
Almost exactly six months ago I blogged in The Coming Storm about how 2024 looked like a "somewhat disruptive" year. Hoo, boy! Let's recap point by point from that piece. Taiwan was first on 13th Janu
A general view of Philadelphia City Hall on June 17, 2023. Mark Makela/Getty Images For office workers in 2024, the debate over in-person versus hybrid versus remote work is still going strong. Nowher
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11 hours ago - Business Emily Peck Data: Moody's; Note: Data covers vacancy rates in Tier 1 metro areas; Chart: Axios Visuals Office vacancy rates reached a record 20.1% in the second quarter — the hi
One of the worst heat waves on record for the western United States is set to peak between the weekend and early next week, bringing a brutal, enduring spell of high temperatures to the Southwest, muc
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Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and the author of the Maximum Progress substack. Maximum Progress is a blog about the economics, history, science, philosophy, and cult
There's no limit to what it can steal from you. Those are the words of Natalie, a Covid survivor who went hiking on her wedding day. Now she spends her life in a darkened bedroom. If you want to see w
For most of us, the word “medium” means “a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment”. For a biologist, though, the term means something rather different: “the nutrient solutio
Yesterday I was forwarded a bunch of messages that Prof. Ben Zhao (a computer science professor A full professor with tenure, so I feel entirely within my rights to call him out here. at the Universit
If it seems like things are kind of off these days, you’re not alone. Recently, more than 100,000 people liked a post marking the start of the pandemic that said, “[Four] years ago, this week was the
Isabella Weber, the economist who ignited controversy with a bold proposal to implement strategic price controls at the peak of inflation and identified corporate profits as a driver of high prices, h
It started on farms in Kansas. At first, it was severe. Then it wasn't. During the winter of 1917, a mystery flu started making locals sicker than doctors had ever seen. One of the doctors tried to so
In 2013, the US food conglomerate Smithfield Foods – the country’s largest pork producer and maker of the famous holiday ham – was sold to a Hong Kong-based company called WH Group in a deal worth $7.
Microplastic pollution has been found in all human semen samples tested in a study, and researchers say further research on the potential harm to reproduction is “imperative”. Sperm counts in men have
Following massive customer pushback after it announced the new AI-powered Recall for Copilot+ PCs last month, Microsoft says it will update the feature to be more secure and require customers to opt i
Every American knows what the CIA is. I would guess that maybe 1 in 1,000 have ever heard of INR — the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, American diplomats’ in-house intelligence
NOTE 1: for reasons explained in my previous essay, I’ll replace the common use of the term ‘ransomware’ with ‘extortion’ in this essay. NOTE 2: Also, Allan Alford was kind enough to interview me on t
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a n
When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device. Today, the other, unintended definition of “recall”
Vermont has become the first state to enact a law holding oil firms financially responsible for climate damages, after the Republican governor, Phil Scott, allowed it to pass without his signature lat
NOAA National Weather Service forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year. NOAA’s outlook for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane seaso
I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just go down a terribly wrong path,
Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn't a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported In that report —
An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival. By: Peter Watts BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. I’ve kno
An ex-OpenAI board member disclosed new details about Sam AltmanGet info without leaving the page. 's brief ousting as CEO. Helen Toner said Altman lied to the board "multiple" times and was "withhold
Watch China’s military drills surrounding Taiwan 00:48 - Source: CNN CNN — China’s military drills around Taiwan are designed to test its ability to “seize power” over the island, the People’s Liberat
Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only p
The Cycle The history of AI goes in cycles, each of which looks at least a little bit like this: Scientists do some basic research and develop a promising novel mechanism, N. One important detail is t
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scar
Microsoft's announcement of the new AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature has sparked a lot of concern, with many thinking that it has created massive privacy risks and a new attack vector that threat