Security: Lily Collins Facebook hack garnering media coverage
The hack swipes 2FA authentication tokens from the user’s computer and then uses those to login to their FB account, change their password, change the account name to Lily Collins,…
Public health: WHO proposes to end state sovereignty on public health issues
They would hardwire into international law a top-down supranational approach to public health in which the WHO, acting in some cases via the sole discretion of one individual, its Director…
Demographics: 3/4 of young adults say having kids is not very important
Gloomy: Only 23% of adults under age 30 said that having children was very important and of the total 1,019 respondents, 78% say they aren’t confident that their children’s lives…
Education: Costs of attending elite universities now up to $90,000 per year, or $360k for 4 years
This illustrates the broken college market: For lower and middle income students, with an average household income below $125,000, the price to attend highly selective universities has actually gone down,…
Business: Disney lays off entire virtual reality “metaverse” team
Disney has cut its metaverse division as part of the layoffs that will begin this week. Source: Disney cuts metaverse division under Iger’s restructuring It kinda, sorta looks like FB’s…
Security: Details on one of the Lily Collins Facebook Hack Methods
So far, at least 3 Chrome extensions contained compromising code to do these attacks. Plus it looks like a FB ad network delivered add did a drive-by install of a…
Climate Yes!: “Why climate doomerism is wrong”
Spot on: I don’t want to talk about whether pessimism is accurate. I want to focus on whether it’s useful. People might defend doomsday scenarios as the wake-up call that…
Health care: Cigna insurance denies claims without even looking at the patient’s medical record
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1639586525825441792
Public health: “How Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard Masked America” #MasksForAll
Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than…
Climate oops: Largest seller of carbon offsets accused of being a scam
The world's largest seller of carbon offsets is accused of being a scam, possibly selling 30x more offsets than were actually realized.