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WorkCyber "chaos" warning issued for 2024 election
 Former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump recently claimed that his campaign had been hacked, following Microsoft's announcing that a group of Iranian hackers had broken into the account of a presidential campaign "high ranking official" in June. Work
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WorkScientists Are One Step Closer to Demystifying 'Aphantasia' - The Atlantic (No paywall)
Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein realized she didn’t have a mind’s eye. The vision scientist was sitting in a seminar room, listening to a scientific talk, when the presenter asked the audience to imagine an apple. Shomstein closed her eyes and did so. Then, the presenter asked the crowd to open their eyes and rate how vividly they saw the apple in their mind. Work
WorkIs it possible to be fully authentic?
Anyone who has spent time around teenage girls or formerly was one understands the brutal insult of being called “fake.” The accusation implies a person is two-faced, duplicitous, or concealing their true self in some way: They’re inauthentic. WorkYes, Inflation Is Going Down. But Here's Why Prices Aren't
The July consumer-price index shows an annual inflation rate of 2.9%, slightly below expectations and the smallest increase since March 2021. The slowing inflation rate may be a welcome change for American consumers feeling the pinch from fast-rising prices over the last few years— but experts say it’s unlikely to cause a drop in grocery store prices.
WorkWorkHow This Company Helps World Governments and Corporate America From Going Offline - Inc.com (No paywall)
Aaron Frost founded HeroDevs to provide ongoing end-of-life support for open-source software products such as AngularJS, a JavaScript framework released by Google in 2010 to speed up software development. AngularJS had millions of active users worldwide, including governments and Fortune 500 companies, when Google discontinued it in 2021--ending updates and patches and leaving it vulnerable to decay and attacks. That's where Frost, 45, stepped in to serve a critical need, which rocketed HeroDevs to 4,105 percent growth in three years.
WorkWorkThe perfect storm that led to the Jonestown massacre - History (No paywall)
The Jonestown massacre remains one of the largest mass murders in American history. In a single day, 901 Americans and 8 Guyanese died from Jim Jones’ actions. Met with criticism rather than compassion, victims and survivors of the 1978 tragedy were often blamed and seen as “crazy” for joining the movement. WorkThe Historical Forces Behind the Student Rebellion in Bangladesh - The New Yorker (No paywall)
Last week, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, was forced to resign from her position and flee the country. Throughout July, she had been cracking down on mass protests, led largely by college students, against her increasingly authoritarian rule. More than three hundred people were killed, and thousands were jailed. The protests continued to intensify, and Hasina soon lost the support of the country’s military and left for India. An interim government has been sworn in. It is led by Muhammad Yunus, an economist who, in 2006, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and includes some of the student protesters who had risen up to oppose Hasina; many of these same students can be seen directing traffic on the streets of Dhaka, the capital. WorkSeeking Calm, Columbia University Asks a Doctor to Lead
Now Dr. Armstrong is tasked with leading another community through the aftermath of a different kind of trauma, as Columbia grapples with the consequences of protests, accusations of antisemitism, an unwelcome turn in the global spotlight, and now the resignation of its president, Nemat Shafik. WorkWorkThe British Have Finally Learned to Love Peanut Butter
Britain is not the first European nation to take up the sticky baton — the Netherlands outpaces even the United States in peanut butter consumption, according to Mr. Krampner. Yet it is the most recent European country where the product has taken off, with sales skyrocketing in Britain over the last half-decade as it’s popped up in brownies, bakes and burger relishes and as a topping for curries and crumpets. WorkWorkWorkWhat to Know About the State of the Cease-Fire Talks
The United Nations Security Council on June 10 adopted a cease-fire plan backed by the United States, with 14 nations in favor and Russia abstaining. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said that the United States would work to make sure that Israel agreed to the deal and that Qatar and Egypt would work to bring Hamas to the negotiating table. WorkOpinion | Kamala Harris Needs to Seize the Narrative on Abortion
Ms. Harris, who has worked to connect Mr. Trump to Project 2025, the plan created by conservative groups and former Trump officials as a blueprint for the next Republican president, must remind voters that many key conservative proposals for reproductive rights in a second Trump administration would not require congressional approval. Mr. Trump, she must emphasize, could do a great deal of damage through the use of executive power alone. WorkOpinion | The Intensification of JD Vance
Mr. Vance talks a lot about the decline in American manufacturing and the increase in trade over decades and the state of the border and the inflow of drugs into the United States today as growing out of financial incentives and the disregard that people in power had for the rest of the country. “We believe that a million cheap knockoff toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job,” he said in Nevada recently. WorkOpinion | America's Plan in the Middle East Is Unraveling
At the same time, Mr. Biden was directing targeted military strikes against Iran’s proxies, which ramped up attacks on U.S. forces after the war in Gaza began. In the following months, the president ordered unilateral strikes, first against Iran-affiliated infrastructure in Syria, then Iran-affiliated facilities in Iraq, and finally against Iran-aligned militia leaders in Iraq. WorkWorkGaza death toll hits 40,000 with thousands more yet to be counted
“I always say we should go to stay in my mother’s house. But my son refuses because he has developed a phobia of buildings and walls, and he is afraid of the dark because the building collapsed on top of us when it was bombed, and people had to pull him out from under the rubble.” WorkWorkNevada Senate Race Now Favors Democrat, Report Says
Notably, Ms. Rosen leads Mr. Brown by a wide margin, even as Cook’s presidential swing state poll found former President Donald J. Trump with a slim lead over Ms. Harris in Nevada. Ms. Taylor noted that she was surprised by just how much Ms. Rosen was outperforming Ms. Harris in her own race. WorkSan Francisco Moves to Lead Fight Against Deepfake Nudes
Several states have enacted measures criminalizing A.I.-generated sexually explicit depictions of minors, but Mr. Chiu says that requires going after the people creating and distributing the images, one by one. The new lawsuit out of San Francisco asks a judge to order the sites used to create the content to shut down altogether. WorkTim Walz's Bumpy Road to Gun Control
The answer lies in his bumpy transition from an unabashed small-town gun guy to a statewide candidate facing an electorate with starkly different views. It was a change propelled in part by high-profile mass shootings that also became a campaign issue. WorkWorkWorkKennedy Sought a Meeting With Harris to Discuss a Cabinet Post
The Post reported last month that Mr. Kennedy had held talks with Mr. Trump about a possible cabinet job, proposing a role in public health leadership, in exchange for his support. And in a leaked video of a phone call between the two men, Mr. Trump tried to cajole Mr. Kennedy to exit the race and endorse him. WorkWorkWorkUK economy continues recovery with 0.6% growth
The ONS said that the pace of decline in the sector was easing, but a survey of businesses conducted by the Bank of England found that “any improving sentiment is not expected to translate to activity until later this year”. WorkWorkTata Steel:
WorkWho's Up Next in Japan? Here Are 5 Potential Leaders.
Mr. Kono, a graduate of Georgetown University, is Japan’s digital minister. He came within a hair’s breadth of becoming prime minister in 2021, narrowly losing a runoff vote to Mr. Kishida despite a surge of public support for his more progressive stance on issues like legalizing same-sex marriage. WorkIn South Korea, Documenting a Divide Over Work-Life Balance
Another key element for my article would be to speak with someone who had worked in South Korea before and after 2004, when workweeks were capped at five days. I wanted to find someone who could speak about the nation’s work culture at a time when many people were accustomed to working more than five days a week. WorkU.K. Economy Buoyed by Reports on Growth, Inflation and Jobs
At the same time, the government warned it would make “difficult” fiscal decisions later this year because the public finances are stretched, implying potential spending cuts and taxes increases. Many economists have said Britain needs significantly more investment to grow its economy; the government has said it will rely on the private sector to deliver much of it. WorkWorkHarris Will Back Federal Ban on Price Gouging, Campaign Says
The officials also said Ms. Harris would authorize the Federal Trade Commission to impose “harsh penalties” on corporations that fix prices. They said that she would direct more resources toward investigating price-gouging in the supply chain for meat and that she would push federal officials to closely scrutinize proposed grocery mergers. WorkUkraine's Incursion Into Russia Flips the Script on Putin
To opposition-minded politicians, including some of the few remaining inside Russia, Ukraine’s incursion has offered a rare chance to puncture the Kremlin’s narrative that Russia is steadily heading toward victory — even if it was far from certain that Russians would blame Mr. Putin for their ills. One opposition figure, Lev Shlosberg, in the western city of Pskov, compared the state of Russian society to magma gathering beneath a volcano in which it was unclear when or how it would burst to the surface. WorkWorkOpinion | It's Too Late for Summer Now
I haven’t been to the beach or the pool or the lake. The Weber grill is covered in dead leaves and there’s a wasp nest back there that I’ve been meaning to call someone (who?) to remove. I’ve spent no time on a boat, on an outdoor chaise or nestled in a hammock. I’ve worn neither gingham nor seersucker nor floppy hat. I forgot to obsess over Lyme disease, but it doesn’t matter because I have yet to venture into a summer meadow or grassy field. WorkWorkGena Rowlands, Actress Who Brought Raw Drama to Her Roles, Dies at 94
But it was “Faces” (1968), in which she starred as a young prostitute opposite John Marley, that first brought the Cassavetes-Rowlands partnership to moviegoers’ attention. Critics spread the word; Renata Adler described the film in The New York Times as “a really important movie” about “the way things are,” and Mr. Ebert called it “astonishing.” |
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