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David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: Cybersecurity and privacy firms, many of which raised hundreds of millions, have laid off ~1,400 workers since May; OneTrust axed 950, Lacework laid off 200  —  Security startups hunker down and stockpile cash as they prepare for a bear market  —  Companies that help businesses battle hackers …

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Flexe, which provides software that allows retailers to optimize their supply chains, raised a $119M Series D at a $1B+ valuation  —  The news: Flexe is the latest to join Seattle’s unicorn club.  The 9-year-old company just raised a $119 million Series D round to push its valuation past $1 […]

Artificial intelligence can transfer artistic styles onto a 3D scene, including turning a bulldozer into the style of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting

Facebook’s owner Meta has created an AI model that can translate dozens more languages than the biggest current tools, and the company also claims the results are better than those of competitors

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revealed the next generation of algorithms that will keep our private data safe from snoopers

Norman Magnuson’s MIT career — culminating in his role as manager of grounds services in the Department of Facilities for the past 20 years — started in 1974 with a summer job. Fresh out of high school and unsure of his next step, Magnuson’s father, Norman Sr., a housing manager at MIT, encouraged him to […]

The plumes of smoke that rose from East Campus one sunny May day could easily have been mistaken for a barbecue taking place in the courtyard. And indeed, burgers were on the grill. But the smoke was coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: a […]

Though they are discrete particles, water molecules flow collectively as liquids, producing streams, waves, whirlpools, and other classic fluid phenomena. Not so with electricity. While an electric current is also a construct of distinct particles — in this case, electrons — the particles are so small that any collective behavior among them is drowned out […]

Four research-backed strategies to help you balance going the extra mile at work and being a good partner at home.

Done well, virtual learning can be even more impactful than in-person learning.

Price swings signal important information to investors — and build previously unseen levels of transparency into the system.

Stock up with these iHealth at-home antigen tests.

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

The Limits to Growth argued that rampant pollution and resource extraction were pushing Earth to the brink. How does it hold up 50 years later?

Ryan Browne / CNBC: The UK’s CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a September 1 deadline for its initial decision  —  – It marks one of the first probes by a major antitrust enforcer into the $68.7 billion deal, which was announced in January.

Emily Flitter / New York Times: As crypto markets tumbled, strict US regulatory rules on risky bank assets largely insulated Wall Street from the chaos, while retail investors were hit hard  —  As cryptocurrency prices plunged and funds failed, strict rules on risky assets helped Wall Street companies sidestep the worst.

Sky News: The UK’s CMA opens an investigation into whether Amazon distorts competition by favoring its own retail business and sellers using its Prime services  —  Amazon is being investigated by Britain’s antitrust watchdog over concerns that some of its practices in the UK may be anticompetitive and result in a worse deal for customers.

Receptors found on cell surfaces bind to hormones, proteins, and other molecules, helping cells respond to their environment. MIT chemists have now discovered how one of these receptors changes its shape when it binds to its target, and how those changes trigger cells to grow and proliferate. This receptor, known as epidermal growth factor receptor […]

At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would take three months to see a dermatologist. When the mole was finally removed and biopsied, doctors determined it was cancerous. At the time, no one could be sure the cancer hadn’t spread to other […]

The National Grid is testing computer-manned drones that can save millions in maintenance work.

Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities.

Cities of the future will likely be even more segregated by income, hostile to pedestrians, and designed to line the pockets of tech giants.

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is lobbying the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling some of its older deep ultraviolet lithography systems to China  —  The US is pushing the Netherlands to ban ASML Holding NV from selling to China mainstream technology essential in making a large chunk of the world’s chips …

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: The Senate Intelligence Committee asks the FTC to investigate whether TikTok misled lawmakers about China-based ByteDance employees accessing American user data  —  China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, repeatedly accessed sensitive U.S. user data …

Derek B. Johnson / SC Media: NIST selects four encryption algorithms designed to withstand future quantum computing hacking threats to be part of its post-quantum cryptographic standard  —  For years, the National Institute for Standards and Technology have been working on a project to identify and vet a handful …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is about to reveal the next generation of algorithms that will keep our private data safe from snoopers

The world’s third largest carbon emitter after China and the United States, India ranks seventh in a major climate risk index. Unless India, along with the nearly 200 other signatory nations of the Paris Agreement, takes aggressive action to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius relative to preindustrial levels, physical and financial losses […]

A new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a prenatal and early child home visiting program, did not improve birth outcomes for low-income mothers in South Carolina. In the coming years, researchers will continue to evaluate other outcomes related to child health and development and the spacing […]

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Tips for managing emotions and staying focused even when the news is terrible.

With the shift towards stakeholder capitalism, companies have to redefine what success looks like — and how to achieve it.

With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.

Those using IVF can see which embryo is least likely to develop cancer and other diseases. But can protecting your child slip into playing God?

When temperatures rise, plants mysteriously lose their ability to defend against invading pathogens—but there may be a fix.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but enforcement could be hamstrung by limited resources  —  EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …

Financial Times: China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police data breach that exposed over 1B records; “data leak” and other terms are banned on Weibo  —  Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000

Paul MacInnes / The Guardian: FIFA will introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup, using 12 cameras and a custom soccer ball to track players and make offside calls  —  – Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second  — Fifa claim average decision time will fall from 70sec […]

The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by 2054

Independence Day is here, and so are the savings. We’ve rounded up plenty of sales on air purifiers, office chairs, massage guns, and more.

I texted her Joni Mitchell, she sent me songs of her own. Slowly, my daughter began to open up to me again.

Whether you need a travel-friendly slate or something affordable for the kids, we tested every model to find the right one for everybody.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google releases a Chrome update for Windows to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, its fourth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022  —  Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild …

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: After a pandemic frenzy to buy laptops and other gadgets, Intel, Nvidia, Micron, and others suggest crypto mining, PC gaming, and smartphone demand is weakening  —  Intel and Nvidia are among the semiconductor makers warning of rockier times ahead after two years of surging demand

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Crypto lender and exchange Vauld pauses withdrawals, trading, and deposits and says it’s exploring a restructuring, after users withdrew $197.7M+ since June 12  —  Vauld, a Singapore-headquartered crypto lending and exchange startup, has suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits …

Pioneering reparations programmes meant to address decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers could get a boost from AI decision making

DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game – but they also warn against “AI government”

Three strategies to ensure yours isn’t an expensive waste of time.

Three ways to increase the chance that top talent sticks around.

With friends like these, you definitely won’t need enemies. Or the main story campaign, for that matter.

The first generation to grow up on Instagram and Snapchat is already taking stock.