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Economy
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Image) On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1,…
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Investing
More on Free Trade’s “Pro-Poor Bias”
Scott Lincicome Among the research I commended in the 2024 Economic Report of the President (ERP) last week was a solid section on…
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Investing
Ninth Circuit: Prop 65 Warnings Can Count As Compelled Speech
Walter Olson Under the Supreme Court’s commercial speech jurisprudence, businesspeople do not check their First Amendment rights at the gate…
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Economy
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
Enlarge / Internet Backdoor in a string of binary code in a shape of an eye. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers…
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Economy
OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed…
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Investing
Friday Feature: Eyes and Brain STEM Center
Colleen Hroncich Eric Eisenbrey was a middle school science teacher for 10 years, but he often felt like he couldn’t really help…
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Investing
Are Policy Nudges Cost Effective?
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter An important strand of economic analysis suggests that nudges — non‐coercive policies like providing relevant…
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Investing
States Pursue Alternative Licensing Pathways for Lawyers
Marc Joffe Jokes about the abundance of “ambulance chasers” aside, the fact is that some parts of America face a shortage…
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Economy
PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack
Enlarge / Supply-chain attacks, like the latest PyPI discovery, insert malicious code into seemingly functional software packages used by developers.…
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Economy
Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams
Enlarge / One thing you can say about this crypto wallet: You can’t confuse it for any other. (credit: Getty…
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