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Investing
Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day!
Scott Lincicome Thirty‐four years ago tomorrow, Boris Yeltsin — then a newly elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet…
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Economy
How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security company is calling out a feature in Google’s authenticator app that it says made…
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Economy
Private AI summit with Senate, titans of tech garners controversy
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrive to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight…
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Investing
After 50 Years, the FDA Finds Out Oral Phenylephrine Doesn’t Work
Jeffrey A. Singer On September 12, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel reported that oral phenylephrine hydrochloride, an ingredient in…
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Economy
A phone call to helpdesk was likely all it took to hack MGM
Enlarge / Gamblers and hotel guests at MGM casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, including the Bellagio, were affected by…
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Economy
With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) End users, admins, and researchers better brace yourselves: The number of apps being patched for zero-day…
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Investing
U.S. Food Aid for Poor Countries
Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong Congress is scheduled to reauthorize farm programs this fall, which provides an opportunity to cut…
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Economy
AI can now generate CD-quality music from text, and it’s only getting better
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Imagine typing “dramatic intro music” and hearing a soaring symphony or writing “creepy footsteps” and getting…
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Economy
SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million
Enlarge / SpaceX Starlink satellite dish at Pelican Beach on Willard Bay Reservoir in Willard, Utah, in October 2022. (credit:…
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Investing
Introducing Defending Globalization, a new Cato Institute Project
Scott Lincicome Today we’re launching a new multi‐year, multimedia Cato project — Defending Globalization. The last few years have witnessed renewed…
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