“Mother had gone to lunch that week with her friends and she said…I may need to move. These people are dying around me. I didn’t realize it was not a joke.” Dozens of older Americans were murdered — in the end, the victims might really number into the hundreds — [Keep reading]
No one knows when an investment bubble will burst, but in retrospect, there’s often a single event that comes to symbolize the beginning of the end — as the Lehman Brothers implosion is now forever intertwined with the collapse of the housing bubble and the Great Recession. It’s understandable that [Keep reading]
Dianna Tannery: “I was more… horrified just knowing that… that she didn’t die peacefully in her sleep. That her last few minutes was struggling and trying to breathe. So I think about that every night.” Loren Adair: “My brother and I both started having nightmares. I would have visions of [Keep reading]
Zelle, a favorite tool for online criminals, *might* begin protecting users from scams soon. Victims who report they’ve been “robbed” by thieves on the service have long been denied dispute rights we take for granted with other kinds of electronic transactions. On Monday, banks leaked a plan to the Wall [Keep reading]
America’s housing market is crazy, which makes most Americans crazy. Fixing it would require something like 4 million new homes to drop out of the sky tomorrow. Or perhaps 7 million. And even that wouldn’t really restore the U.S. social contract with the middle class. If you really want to [Keep reading]
Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and .. well, a lot is going on. One really important development that might be overlooked in the noise and chaos since the acquisition is Musk’s new – and now delayed – attempt to change Twitter’s Blue Check system. Verification online is a very, [Keep reading]
“Do your own research” sounds like a harmless — unassailable? — suggestion. It’s more complicated than that, says today’s guest, UNC professor Francesa Tripodi, author of the new book The Propagandists’ Playbook. In this episode of Debugger in 10, Tripodi discusses the IKEA Effect in research, why Googling is more [Keep reading]
UPDATE: DEC. 19, 2022 — @RustyDogFriendly is back online. Basically, I just kept trying. It seems from the outside as if Meta/Facebook have hired more people to handle these requests and that’s why this account finally got the human attention it needed to be fixed. But I don’t know, perhaps [Keep reading]
Should a company executive face criminal charges after a data breach? That’s one of the questions opened up by the remarkable trial recently of Joe Sullivan, former head of cyber security at Uber, who was recently convicted of essentially hiding a hack from federal investigators. The case has people in [Keep reading]
For decades, American workers and employers had dabbled with the idea of telecommuting — working from home — but only a tiny fraction of workplaces really allowed it. Then the pandemic hit. The world was plunged into a real-time experiment in remote work, and despite an awful lot of ups [Keep reading]
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