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Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

Few organizations have the right tools, people, infrastructure, and processes to protect themselves.

This week, we talk to fitness writer Casey Johnston about getting strong, eating right, and feeling great.

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$30B, ~$3.2B net income, up from a ~$2.6B loss in Q4 2022, and plans to spin off its cloud unit and take others public  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will begin exploring initial public offerings for its logistics and grocery arms …

Dominic Toretto and company have made millions at the box office by doing something no one else has pulled off: Making movies that are truly for the fans.

Polyester is in almost all of your clothing, and it’s almost impossible to recycle. Some innovators are looking beyond turning plastic bottles into fabric.

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Binance Australia can no longer offer Aussie dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, “our payment processor’s partner bank”, and warns of disruptions  —  The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …

Washington Post: A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favored reauthorization of FISA’s Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some kind of change  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  It’s good to be back from Denver.  There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated …

Hannah Gazdus has always been crafty. She started off simple, making things with cardboard and clay. As a kid growing up in the Red Bank area of New Jersey, she would sell bracelets on the beach to fund her LEGO purchases. “My favorite part of LEGOs were the extra pieces that you got in the […]

Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma weigh in on Link’s stink, Ultrahand, and getting lost in the world they created.

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The USPS carries out warrantless surveillance on thousands of parcels every year. Lawmakers want it to end—right now.

CoinDesk: Grayscale says the US SEC warned that the Filecoin token meets the definition of a security and asked Grayscale to withdraw its Filecoin Trust application  —  Grayscale announced last month that the SEC suggested FIL might be a security.  —  CORRECTION (May 18, 2023, 00:25 UTC) …

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: Ovulation tracking app Premom agrees to pay $200K to settle with the FTC and state AGs for allegedly sharing user information with third parties without consent  —  The app allegedly shared sensitive user information with China-based companies known for privacy problems

The advent of generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT has prompted renewed calls for AI in health care, and its support base only appears to be broadening. The second annual MIT-MGB AI Cures Conference, hosted on April 24 by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (Jameel Clinic), saw its attendance nearly […]

Wall Street Journal: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country’s first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024  —  Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation  —  Montana’s governor signed the country’s first bill that outright bans TikTok …

Paula Hammond, a leading innovator in nanotechnology and head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2023-2024 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, was honored for her work designing novel polymers and nanomaterials, which have extensive applications in fields including medicine and energy. […]

Many of our body’s most important functions occur without our conscious knowledge, such as digestion, heartbeat, and breathing. These vital functions depend on the signals generated by the “interoceptive nervous system,” which enables the brain to monitor our internal organs and trigger responses that sometimes save our lives. One second you are breathing normally as […]

Managers should focus on helping employees maintain their passion over time — not just stoking it in the moment.

New services are using research data and anonymized medical records to identify ways to treat conditions that lack care guidelines.

Connecting a project to core principles — and explaining how it will benefit stakeholders — can spark the motivation required for success.

At a congressional hearing senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad.

Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post: An investigation finds some US public housing agencies use surveillance cameras with facial recognition and AI to evict residents, sometimes for minor breaches  —  Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents …

Brands around the world are launching blasters with gaming modes, tactical display screens, and USB connectivity—all geared toward grown-ups.

Zoom did not set us free. But solidarity can strengthen the porous boundary between home and workplace.

Anna Tong / Reuters: A poll of 4,415 US adults finds 61% believe AI could threaten civilization and 66%+ are concerned over negative effects; 70% of Trump voters were concerned  —  The swift growth of artificial intelligence technology could put the future of humanity at risk, according to most Americans surveyed …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Entrepreneur Dean Drako raised $100M for video surveillance startup Eagle Eye and $92M for smart lock startup Brivo from Japanese security giant SECOM  —  Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillance and access control systems …

To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct the currents that transport them. These buoy data are also used to identify “divergences,” which are areas where water rises up from below the surface or sinks beneath it. By accurately predicting currents and pinpointing divergences, scientists can […]

The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a time of profound inequality. Elites captured virtually all economic gains. In Britain, as Canterbury Cathedral soared upward, peasants had no net increase in wealth between […]

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Elon Musk says working from home is “morally wrong” when service workers still have to show up, calling tech workers the “laptop classes living in la-la-land”  —  – Elon Musk called Silicon Valley engineers a part of “laptop classes living in la-la land” …

Now’s your chance to score great deals on some of the best pots and pans on the market.

From Barry to Succession, HBO Max is a streaming paradise of “it’s not TV” television.

Like Hollywood’s striking screenwriters, the outlet’s employees want protections against potentially job-killing automation.

Bill Peters / Marketwatch: Rumble says it has acquired podcasting and livestreaming app Callin, and Callin’s co-founder David Sacks will join Rumble’s board of directors  —  ‘I strongly support Rumble’s unwavering commitment to free speech in the face of growing censorship and government overreach,’ Sacks says in plans to join right-wing video platform

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A federal judge rules the US SEC can’t seal documents tied to ex-SEC official William Hinman, who said ether isn’t a security in a 2018 speech, in Ripple suit  —  The order deals a blow to the SEC in its longstanding procedural fight against Ripple.  —  A federal judge ruled that […]

To improve cybersecurity we need to understand how hackers really think, as well as how they code, says cyber-lawyer Scott Shapiro. That’s why he’s teaching everyone how to hack   

A new high-definition virtual meeting pod by Finnish company Framery aims to recreate face-to-face conversations at a distance. Are these the future of video calls – and can they really reduce the need for business travel?

Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The new sutures are derived from animal tissue, similar to the “catgut” sutures first used by the ancient Romans. In a modern twist, the MIT team […]

The ability to track a product along the supply chain can help companies meet ambitious environmental goals.

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Companies need to do more to understand when and how their software is failing.

Even though the CDC and WHO are downgrading Covid-19, it’s still killing people. Here’s what you should know heading into this new phase.

Multiplayer titles like Minecraft encourage creativity, but prototype games built on the blockchain claim to give players more meaningful independence.

Every web browser offers ways to keep tabs organized, but Vivaldi’s tools have always been superior. The latest update improves them even more.

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Apple announces Assistive Access, a suite of features to improve cognitive, vision, and speech accessibility on iOS and iPadOS, rolling out later in 2023  —  Apple previewed a suite of new features today to improve cognitive, vision and speech accessibility.

James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal: Futu and Tiger Brokers, two Nasdaq-listed online brokerages catering to clients in China, plan to remove apps from Chinese app stores and stop taking on users  —  The online brokerages earlier agreed to stop accepting new customers from mainland China  —  Two Nasdaq-listed online brokerages …

Financial Times: As the European Central Bank prepares to pilot a digital euro in October, consumers, financiers, and politicians are questioning the project’s aims and benefits  —  Europe’s central bank is pushing ahead with the development of electronic currency even as politicians question its purpose

We barbecued for weeks to find the right charcoal and propane grills for road trips—or just for smaller homes.

Algorithms can exacerbate employment discrimination. It’s time for the US Federal Trade Commission to regulate them.

The families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre.