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Nov 24, 2022

Ransomware attacks on US healthcare organizations cost $7.8bn in 2021

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.

Nov 18, 2022

Deepfakes are being used for good – here’s how

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

Nov 10, 2022

Quantum Clones inside Black Holes

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

Nov 9, 2022

Introducing Smol Links: Shorten URLs Without Tracking

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

Nov 1, 2022

Design And Development of a Remote Monitoring Agent For Energy Service Companies In The Telecommunication Industry

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

Oct 28, 2022

Tropical Oysters’ Time to Shine

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

Oct 20, 2022

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.

by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, with data analysis by Haru Coryne, ProPublica, and Ryan Little ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a

Oct 20, 2022

Percent change versus percentage-point change: What’s the difference? 4 tips for avoiding math errors

by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist’s ResourceOctober 5, 2022 When you’re reporting on changes in numbers such as state funding, crime rates and opinion poll results, it’s important to tell audiences how much a number has risen or fallen over time. Before you can do that, though, you need to know the difference between

Oct 19, 2022

A New Eye on the Deep Sea

The developers of a new, easy-to-use, low-cost device are looking to make the deep sea accessible to everyone. Deep-sea exploration has long been largely a privilege of billionaires, fossil fuel companies, and a select few scientists from wealthy nations. This exclusivity has left the vast majority of the deep sea unexplored, its natural

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