-
Investing
George Will: Overcoming Constitutional Queasiness to Head Off a Fiscal Crisis
Romina Boccia Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will wrote about an idea I’ve been pitching for several months: a BRAC‐like fiscal…
Read More » -
Investing
Defund the Police?
Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on August 10, 2023. The Defund the Police (DTP) movement raises an interesting…
Read More » -
Economy
Using AI to find antibodies is fast and produces unimagined molecules
Enlarge / Researchers use CyBio FeliX workstations to extract and purify DNA samples for testing (credit: LabGenius) At an old…
Read More » -
Investing
New York City’s Two Overdose Prevention Centers Saved One Thousand Lives Since They Opened. Will The Feds Reward Them by Shutting Them Down?
Jeffrey A. Singer OnPoint NYC, the harm reduction organization tasked with opening and operating New York City’s two overdose prevention…
Read More » -
Economy
How an unpatched Microsoft Exchange 0-day likely caused one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever
Enlarge / Building with Microsoft logo. (credit: Getty Images) It’s looking more and more likely that a critical zero-day vulnerability…
Read More » -
Economy
“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more
Enlarge / An 8th-generation Intel Core desktop CPU, one of several CPU generations affected by the Downfall bug. (credit: Mark…
Read More » -
Economy
Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered a suite of vulnerabilities that largely break a next-generation protocol that was designed…
Read More » -
Economy
How we host Ars, the finale and the 64-bit future
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Greetings, dear readers, and congratulations—we’ve reached the end of our four-part series on…
Read More » -
Economy
Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Upon searching Amazon and Goodreads, author Jane Friedman recently discovered a half-dozen listings of fraudulent books…
Read More » -
Economy
Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”
Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko) Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated…
Read More »