Pipedream Malware: Feds Uncover 'Swiss Army Knife' for Industrial System Hacking | WIRED
The malware toolkit, known as Pipedream, is perhaps the most versatile tool ever made to target critical infrastructure like power grids and oil refineries.
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google. The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links. We need new thinking to create something much better than what came before.
Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy | Vanity Fair
Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
L’hibernation de la bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy, ou l’hiver culturel? – William Pépin
Une réflexion sur le rôle des bibliothèques à l’heure actuelle. Je me questionne notamment sur ce qu’est l’archivage du savoir (la question du patrimoine matériel et immatériel) e…
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that benefits society. But I still encounter people who balk at the possibility of a smart, engaged adult
In the early days of the company, MindGeek (the parent of Pornhub) struggled to effectively moderate its content. Nathan Munn, a former employee in charge of take-down requests, reveals the origins of the issues that would eventually plague the fast-rising porn site.
Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.
Summary: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it. It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe. In particular, I conclude that it’s plausible that at least acute sleep deprivation is not only not …