Deceptive AI content and 2024 elections – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Video As the specter of AI-generated disinformation looms large, tech giants vow to crack down on fabricated content that could sway voters and disrupt elections taking place around the world this year 01 Mar 2024 As a record number of people across the world will go to the polls this year, concerns rise about the […]
StanChart exec predicts $200K Bitcoin by 2025-end as demand continues to outpace supply
Standard Chartered head of crypto research Geoffrey Kendrick predicts Bitcoin will continue to rally over the coming 24 months to culminate in a $200,000 price per coin by the end of 2025. Kendrick made the statement during a CNBC interview on Feb. 29. He said that macro and fundamental indicators all point to a sustained rally […]
Long term care spending around the world – Healthcare Economist
A great paper by Gruber et al. 2023 looks at the evolution of long-term care for ten countries: Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain and the United States. Long-term care is divided into three categories: institutional care, formal home care, and informal care. For the 10 […]
CDC ditches 5-day COVID isolation, argues COVID is becoming flu-like
Enlarge / A view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. COVID-19 is becoming more like the flu and, as such, no longer requires its own virus-specific health rules, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday alongside the release of a unified “respiratory virus guide.” In a lengthy background […]
A German In Kyoto: The Coutner BMW E24 635CSi
Sometimes, looking out of place just can’t be helped. A pineapple at a BBQ; a Mini Cooper in the Sahara; or a mariachi band at a funeral might raise an eyebrow. But a German in Kyoto? Right at home. Of course, I’m talking about this E24 BMW 635CSi, as built by Kyoto-based E24 specialist Coutner. Somehow, Shiro Watanabe’s […]
3D Printing Virtual Reality Products in MJF PA12
Experimenting with virtual reality is an exciting — and somewhat unnerving — process. It often requires much trial and error, which is precisely why the team at Spaces needed to find a final stage prototyping process to aid them. That’s where Shapeways stepped in. Spaces loves Shapeways’ dimensional accuracy and durability and has used 3D […]
UK’s NCSC Issues Warning as SVR Hackers Target Cloud Services
Russian state hackers are adapting their techniques to target organizations moving to the cloud, an advisory from the UK National Cyber Security Centre and international security agencies has warned. The advisory details how cyber espionage group APT29 is directly targeting weaknesses in cloud services used by victim organizations to gain initial access to their systems. […]