Public health: China’s “ZeroCovid” strategy can not work forever
The strict policies saved lives, but cannot be sustained, said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. “They do not have a…
Anonymous steals 800 GB of emails, documents from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Internet censor
Best’s Wikileaks-esque entity published what it claimed was a huge trove of files stolen by a member of the Anonymous hacktivist collective from Russia’s censorship agency, Roskomnadzor. That includes a…
My thought too: “Bitcoin ‘may not last that much longer,’ academic warns”
Bitcoin is computationally intensive - which translates into enormous consumption of electricity. There are now hundreds of competing cryptocurrencies, many of which are computationally more efficient.
NSA gives secret $10B contract to Amazon
Imagine Amazon will data mine the NSA repository to figure out how to market more stuff to all of us: The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing…
Hmmmm: “Apple removes Fakespot from App Store after Amazon complains”
Like all social media with user generated content, Amazon’s reviews have tons of fake reviews: Apple has removed Fakespot, a well-known app for detecting fake product reviews, from its App…
Windows 365 – cloud-based
Perhaps for those with genuine high speed, affordable network connections Windows 365-cloud-based computing has value. For those lacking such connections, this may not add value. I am not yet seeing…