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What a lovely day, maybe we should LINK up?
I’ve been trying to learn how to make a good cup of coffee at home (much harder than society makes it seem), and I finally received my certificate for knowing how to use AI to do my homework. That has been my life recently. I’ve had nothing to inspiring me to write, but I’ve got articles piling up. Figured you needed something to read while you wait for your dinner reservation.
In more than two dozen cases, educators were forced to backtrack months—and in some cases more than a year—later after telling their communities that sensitive information, which included, in part, special education accommodations, mental health challenges, and student sexual misconduct reports, had not been exposed. While many school officials offered evasive storylines, others refused to acknowledge basic details about cyberattacks and their effects on individuals, even after the hackers made student and teacher information public.
Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden | Mark Keierleber for WIRED
Inside the Bust That Took Down Pavel Durov—and Upended Telegram | Darren Loucaides for WIRED
What happened to Douglas’ data in the past decade has never before been revealed. It involves a transatlantic transfer to a now-disgraced political firm, questions of illegality and concerns from insiders about the repercussions should authorities discover the secret data sharing. This story, built on interviews and a new cache of internal documents obtained by ProPublica, details for the first time the sophisticated and invasive nature of the gun industry’s electioneering.
How Gun Lobby, Cambridge Analytica Used Customer Data for Political Gain | Corey G. Johnson, Byard Duncan for ProPublica
During a debate in Parliament over amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act, Apple warned in March that the law allowed the government to demand back doors that could apply around the world. “These provisions could be used to force a company like Apple, that would never build a back door into its products, to publicly withdraw critical security features from the UK market, depriving UK users of these protections,” it said in a written submission.
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts | Joseph Menn for The Washington Post
Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams | Jonathon Head for BBC
But, as with Pisa, work on the tower did not stop. It only got more frenzied. “There is a lot of organizational disorder and many uncertainties in decision-making,” Soncini, the Pizzarotti poet, wrote to his muse at the Fortis Property Group. “The situation of One Seaport project is of great frustration for everyone, including myself.” Rather than pausing to fix what had already been done, an attempt was made to straighten the thing out in midair. To compensate for the lean, higher floors were intentionally poured out of alignment, in the opposite direction. This compounded the problem. “What happened was, as the building went up, the parties tried to pull it back and it kind of counterweighted,” a lawyer representing Pizzarotti later explained to a judge. “Your Honor,” the lawyer said, “it’s shaped like a banana right now.”
The Leaning Tower of New York | Eric Lach for The New Yorker
How Zyn Conquered the American Mouth | Emily Sundberg for GQ
Then, one morning after nearly a month in the guesthouse, that routine came to an abrupt end. Gambaryan woke up on the couch after Anjarwalla returned from the mosque, went looking for his colleague, and discovered the shirt with the pillow stuffed in it. The water bottle in a sock. The empty bed. Anjarwalla had escaped.
The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison | Andy Greenberg for WIRED
How big tech's ad systems helped fund child abuse online | Thomas Germain for BBC
The seven-figure costs of Zolgensma and other gene therapies add to the nation’s ballooning bill for prescription drugs, absorbed by all Americans in the form of rising insurance premiums and taxes for public programs like Medicaid.
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing | Robin Fields for ProPublica
A ‘True Crime’ Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated | Henry Larson for 404 Media
Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai for TechCrunch
So why, on the night of Jan. 25, 2023, was Stephen Matthews still on the app? Just four days before, Match Group had been alerted when another woman reported him for rape. A little more than a week later, he was reported for rape again. This time, the survivor went to the police.
Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps | Emily Elena Dugdale and Hanisha Harjani for The Markup
All the silliness in American politics have made me avoid the news. I should use this time productively, instead…have you seen the show Silo on Apple TV? Is it good? I just started reading the book. Between that and my recent relapse with Balatro, my to-do list may have to wait.
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