7/26/24 CYBERSECURITY Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The WARN notice gets filed, and among the hundreds of workers who will get the proverbial pink slip, one spiteful ex-employee performs a hack that triggers a massive leak of confidential data ranging from bank account information to social security numbers. It sounds like the trappings of a plot out of your favorite crime drama, right? read more ..read more

7/26/24 QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Illinois Grainger Engineeringphysics professor Brian DeMarco stood on stage in Chicago on Tuesday when Illinois Governor J.B. read more ..read more

7/26/24 DEMOCRACY WATCH Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Consider a typical morning routine: coffee in hand, you peruse Twitter (now rebranded as X) to catch up on the news. Headlines appear among a flurry of tweets on everything from memes about political leaders to cultural Marxism, free speech, making America great again and draining the swamp. read more ..read more

7/24/24 CONSPIRACY THEORIES Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Thanks to algorithms, social media platforms can generate content that feels like it’s made just for you. And while you may acknowledge that technology is what delivers the content, you may sometimes feel that a higher power is involved. read more ..read more

7/24/24 PROTECTING THE PARIS OLYMPICS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments There has been considerable media attention on threats to the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games as identified by French security services and law enforcement. read more ..read more

7/24/24 CRITICAL MINERALS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Have depressed rare earths prices been engineered by the Chinese state to snuff out non-Chinese rivals before they get going? Or do they simply reflect a weak market, with demand rising more slowly than was expected by the promotors of a slew of new projects? The chief executive of Australian mineral sands miner Iluka, Tom O’Leary, argues that the Chinese government is manipulating the market. read more ..read more

7/7/24 FLOODS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Government agencies, insurance companies and disaster planners rely on national flood risk models from the private sector that aren’t reliable at smaller levels such as neighborhoods and individual properties,according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine. read more ..read more

7/24/24 OUR PICKS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  0 The Thomas Crooks Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Going Anywhere  (Tim Marchman, Wired) read more ..read more

7/24/24 AI & PRIVACY Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments As congressional sessions have passed without any new federal artificial intelligence laws, state legislators are striking out on their own to regulate the technologies in the meantime. read more ..read more

7/24/24 EXTREMISM Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments An analysis by the ADL Center on Extremism identified five influencers on X whose engagement spiked in the days and weeks after Hamas’s attack on Israel, with content that included virulent anti-Zionism alongside antisemitic tropes, disinformation and other forms of hateful or harmful rhetoric. read more ..read more