Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
It's strange to think that the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into lockdown seven years ago never ended. It continues to kill and cripple us, to this day. We…
Relatively major culture-maker Boing Boing is running the headline:
COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight
and the article is not ableist, not bullshit, not denying reality. Nice!
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/covid-pandemic-enters-seventh-year-with-no-end-in-sight.html
#BoingBoing #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences
TL;DR: A massive data breach in Finland exposed the personal therapy notes of 33,000 individuals, leading to extortion demands from hackers. This incident highlights the severe consequences of cybersecurity risks in the mental health sector. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No...
The philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked that the fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
I think the discourse has broken this relationship. It's not that intelligent people have become stupid. It's that the incentive structure of public conversation rewards cocksureness regardless of actual intelligence...
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...
Sixty-eight years of highly defective people
What life is like in Minneapolis now
Scientists sequenced the genome of an extinct woolly rhinoceros that was found in a wolf belly that lived 14,400 years ago.
“Incredibly, scientists were able to sequence the genome of the rhino, which revealed that this individual still had a high level of genetic diversity in its lineage, and no signs of inbreeding. Considering that woolly rhinos vanished from the fossil record around 14,000 years ago, this study suggests that they may have experienced a very sudden population collapse, rather than a gradual demise.”
https://www.404media.co/scientists-make-stunning-find-inside-prehistoric-wolfs-stomach/
Do you love reviewing code other people wrote? Do you get a tickle of pure joy to find and criticize the mistakes and problems in sloppy code? Me neither.
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