Hackers are just one part of a supply chain in a multimillion-dollar black market for stolen data. Peach_iStock via Getty Images Christian Jordan Howell, University of South Florida and David Maimon, Georgia State University It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is
To solve our global problems, we need to evolve into a global collective, taking inspiration from DNA, ants, and our own social success. By Sara Walker Try to imagine the future. What will our world be like? A techno-dream? A chaotic dystopia? You can find endless conflicting models of where we are headed,
by Trip O’Dell, UX Mastery We were very excited to chat recently with Trip O’Dell who, among his other impressive roles, has been a product design lead at Amazon where he worked on the future vision for their virtual assistant, Alexa. Our discussion with Trip was full of juicy insights about Voice UI
Twitter users who are fleeing to the social media platform Mastodon are finding it to be a different animal. Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Brian C. Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging
In 2021, 108 individual ransomware attacks affected 2,302 medical organizations, which impacted 19.76 million patient records. We estimate that these attacks cost medical entities almost $7.8 billion in downtime alone. Since 2016, ransomware attacks have been a well-known threat to medical organizations. We saw a massive influx of attacks from the pandemic onwards.
The Reface App on a smartphone. Italy stock images / Alamy Stock Photo Dominic Lees, University of Reading In the second season of BBC mystery thriller The Capture, deepfakes threaten the future of democracy and UK national security. In a dystopia set in present day London, hackers use AI to insert these highly
A systematic procedure is proposed for better understanding the evolution laws of black holes in terms of pure quantum states. We start with the two opposed regions I and II in the Penrose diagram, and study the evolution of matter in these regions, using the algebra derived earlier from the Shapiro effect in
Our WordPress plugin, built on top of Shlink, lets editors generate short URLs without compromising user privacy By: Dan Phiffer About the LevelUp series: At The Markup, we’re committed to doing everything we can to protect our readers from digital harm. We’re constantly working on improving digital security, respecting reader privacy, creating ethical
Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) for telecommunication sites operate by providing reliable power supply at 100% uptime and billing the mobile operators accommodated on their sites for power usage. To achieve this, there is a need for them to accurately meter the power consumed by connected telecommunication equipment. Method: This work focused on the
Temperate oysters have hogged the limelight, but heat-loving species have enormous potential to feed people, create economic opportunities, and rehab habitat in the tropics. Humans have enjoyed slurping oysters’ salty, slippery insides for millennia. The knobbly bivalves grow in oceans and estuaries around the world, where they filter water, shelter baby fish, and