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Economy
Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts
Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Cisco’s Talos security team is warning of a large-scale credential compromise campaign that’s indiscriminately…
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Investing
Not Indentured: Most New H-1B Hires Are Changing Jobs
David J. Bier Critics of the H‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured”…
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Economy
UK targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes with new law
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually explicit…
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Investing
New Defending Globalization Content: Tariffs, Climate Change, and the Moral Case for Globalization
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Separating Tariff Facts from Tariff Fictions, by Erica…
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Economy
Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
Enlarge (credit: Joan Cros via Getty) When Microsoft revealed in January that foreign government hackers had once again breached its…
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Investing
Will Big Sky Country Redefine Climate Policy?
Travis Fisher Montana has become an unlikely frontier in the climate movement. Last August, Montana District Court Judge Kathy Seeley…
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Economy
Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two…
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Investing
Another Negative of Occupational Licenses
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Occupational licensing — for doctors, lawyers, plumbers, barbers, and innumerable other trades — claims to…
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Economy
Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we’ve…
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Economy
Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible
Enlarge (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) For months, Change Healthcare has faced an immensely messy ransomware debacle that has…
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