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Investing
Another Study Shows Nicotine E-Cigarettes Help Smokers to Quit
Jeffrey A. Singer Finnish researchers published the results of a randomized controlled trial in today’s JAMA Internal Medicine, comparing varenicline (Chantix)…
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Economy
High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Asus has released updates patching multiple critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely take…
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Economy
Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn’t want…
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Investing
A Cato Plan to Cut Tax Rates to Near 100-Year Low
Adam N. Michel At the end of 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The law included…
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Economy
Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware criminals have quickly weaponized an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the PHP programming language that executes malicious…
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Investing
Friday Feature: Learn Beyond The Book
Colleen Hroncich “I feel like I fell into my mission in life without really knowing that I was going to be doing…
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Economy
Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code
Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a retired software…
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Investing
A Reality Check on US Industrial Policy and the Manufacturing “Boom”
Scott Lincicome On June 12, I testified before the Joint Economic Committee (along with Cato’s own Adam Michel) on the current…
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Investing
House Passes Repeal of Indefinite Detention Provision via Pentagon Policy Bill
Patrick G. Eddington Over a decade ago, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act…
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Economy
“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last month, Wells Fargo terminated over a dozen bank employees following an investigation into claims of…
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