Crime bust

Nice one!

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68838977

Cybersecurity industry boom

Helpful when arguing it doesn't work. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/0bnqbzec5

Crispy article

Add the DefCon Intel Doc

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/crispr-dangers.html

Bhramari Pranayama (Humming Bee Breath)

Scientifically Proven to Calm Your Mind: Here's How to Do It + What to Know

https://www.leahsugerman.com/blog/bhramari-pranayama-humming-bee-breath#:~:text=When%20we%20strive%20to%20find,known%20as%20the%20relaxation%20response. 

UK firms crap at security?

Need more motivation?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/uk_biz_response_to_cybercrime/

WHO Warns Cancer Cases Will Jump 77% by 2050. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert

WHO Warns Cancer Cases Will Jump 77% by 2050. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert


https://www.sciencealert.com/who-warns-cancer-cases-will-jump-77-by-2050-heres-why

The 1.6 million-year-old discovery that changes what we know about human evolution | The Independent

The 1.6 million-year-old discovery that changes what we know about human evolution | The Independent


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/human-evolution-language-origin-archaeology-b2517744.html

Getting people to take cybersecurity seriously

Collect examples and show none factor in customer angst:
https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/how-cisos-can-make-cybersecurity-long-term-priority-for-boards

Broadband for oldies

Check out this…
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/money/older-people-reduce-broadband-bill-32494060

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica

Add to the list... https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/ 

Loneliness, loss and regret: what getting old really feels like – new study

Maybe... https://theconversation.com/loneliness-loss-and-regret-what-getting-old-really-feels-like-new-study-157731 

Brain stim for fatigue

Check it out.  
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33598767/

Google News - Comatock

Could become critical.,,
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4560476-fears-grow-over-comstock-act-justices-thomas-alito/

Childless People Die Sooner, Study Says

Childless People Die Sooner, Study Says: "Researchers in Denmark found death rates were two to four times higher among childless couples, even after taking age, education, income and other health problems into account."

We are all unwell

Unwellness: We need structures of care that address the actual forces that make life feel unbearable.

Loneliness, loss and regret: what getting old really feels like – new study

Read... https://theconversation.com/loneliness-loss-and-regret-what-getting-old-really-feels-like-new-study-157731 

The Long-Term Realities of Being Childless | Next Avenue

Read... https://www.nextavenue.org/the-long-term-realities-of-being-childless/ 

Security search tools

Longest sustained rise in people too sick to work since 1990s, says thinktank

Longest sustained rise in people too sick to work since 1990s, says thinktank
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/23/uk-adults-too-sick-to-work-resolution-foundation-covid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Cyber Harm: Concepts, Taxonomy and Measurement

by Ioannis Agrafiotis, Maria Bada, Paul Cornish, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Eva Ignatuschtschenko, Taylor Roberts, David M. Upton :: SSRN

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2828646 

Nomics lingo

Download and read…

Exposome stuff

Read…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743443/

St. Augustine history

Haunted?
https://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/st-augustine-haunted-by-ghosts-of-civil-rights-turmoil-50-years-ago/2186250/?outputType=amp

Cyber grand challenge

R. Ford perspective…
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7397726/

State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs

State%20Medicaid%20offices%20target%20dead%20people%u2019s%20homes%20to%20recoup%20costs%20%7C%20AP%20News: a routine process the federal government requires of every state: to recover money from the assets of dead people who, in their final years, relied on Medicaid, the taxpayer-funded health insurance for the poorest Americans.

Crochet Ravelry

Find crochet makers 
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/circle-button-hat

Health Co. Says Future Harm Risk Falls Short In Breach Suit - Law360

Health Co. Says Future Harm Risk Falls Short In Breach Suit - Law360: 

By George Woolston

"New Jersey healthcare provider Capital Health System urged a Garden State federal judge on Wednesday to toss a proposed class action seeking damages as a result of a 2023 data breach, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to allege their personal identifying information was actually misused."

Colon cancer

Blood test…
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/health/colon-cancer-blood-test.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I’m an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad

I%Medium: Previous major advancements in Computer Science and its applications always felt empowering to me, AI feels different.

Trump super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic

Trump logic: "The far-right worldview is incomprehensible until you realize that devotees believe truth flows from authority rather than reality"

Capacity crunch on National Grid is delaying new homes in UK by years

Power and water and more besides,,, 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/10/capacity-crunch-on-national-grid-is-delaying-new-homes-in-uk-by-years 

The UK's workforce crisis is deepening

Relate to other factors... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/02/26/uks-workforce-crisis-is-deepening/ 

The UK's workforce crisis is deepening

Dig deeper... 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/02/26/uks-workforce-crisis-is-deepening/ 

Seriously!

No good viruses…
https://www.xda-developers.com/8-memorable-harmless-viruses/

AT&T says cell outage cause was technical error, not cyberattack

AT&T says cell outage cause was technical error, not cyberattack - The Washington Post: "The company blamed ‘application and execution of an incorrect process’ for an outage that affected well over a million customers"

Agree

Deadlock is dead good. 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/02/21/deadloch-is-one-of-the-best-mysteries-in-years/

Gmail not working on iPhone

Brazilian isation

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/

Woman told to leave UK despite court ruling she has right to live with family | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Home Office Hostility in action: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/15/woman-told-leave-uk-court-ruling-right-live-family-malwattege-peiris 

Sora

Is a mess. https://gizmodo.com/openais-sora-is-a-giant-f-ck-you-to-reality-1851261587

Deaptation

In here …

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/

Meta future

Zucker future
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/04/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-ai-future-accountability

Aural Diversity - Google Books

Amusia and tinnitus:  https://books.google.com/books/about/Aural_Diversity.html?id=LOR9EAAAQBAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false 

FB badness

Agree!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/04/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-ai-future-accountability

Bitcoin bizarre

Biggest cryptocurrency scam ever:
https://news.sky.com/story/bitcoin-worth-1-4bn-seized-after-ex-takeaway-worker-tried-to-buy-23m-mansion-court-hears-13059926

Self publish

Up to date?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-i-self-publish-my-books/

Fraud falls 13% but remains most dominant crime - Which? News

Fraud falls 13% but remains most dominant crime - Which? News
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/fraud-falls-13-but-remains-most-dominant-crime-adxVQ5e8Ak0O

Exposome

Handy lingo…
https://hhearprogram.org/what-exposome-and-exposomics

What happens when a charity is insolvent? - Begbies Traynor Group

What happens when a charity is insolvent? - Begbies Traynor Group: "But in the same way that, under certain circumstances, a limited company’s directors may be held responsible for some or all of the company’s debts on liquidation, directors of these charitable structures can also become liable if they have failed to maximise creditor interests due to negligence or wrongful behaviour, including:

Transactions at an undervalue

Wrongful trading

Breach of trust

Fraud