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Despite record investments in cybersecurity, data breaches tripled in 2024. Why are we losing ground on data privacy?

A #cybersecurity expert explains the three pillars needed for solid personal privacy protection:
https://theconversation.com/your-data-privacy-is-slipping-away-heres-why-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-251768

 

“It is no longer enough for elections to be secure − voters must also perceive them to be secure.”

Cyberattacks don’t need to break voting machines to break democracy. Just the idea of a breach is enough to shake public trust.

https://theconversation.com/cyberattacks-shake-voters-trust-in-elections-regardless-of-party-259368
#USPolitics #cybersecurity #stopthesteal

 

It’s called the Internet of Things – connected cars, smart fridges, wearables. Devices like these and more don’t just collect data on their users, but also on the people around them.

Data from these devices is already starting to be used in court (and can be sold to commercial data brokers).

https://theconversation.com/how-internet-of-things-devices-affect-your-privacy-even-when-theyre-not-yours-251592
#tech #AI #privacy

 

In some of the most remote places on Earth, tags attached to seals collect data in near real-time to help advance ocean science.

https://theconversation.com/tagging-seals-with-sensors-helps-scientists-track-ocean-currents-and-a-changing-climate-234242
#science #animals

 

A class is using video games like "Black Myth: Wukong" and "Raji: an Ancient Epic" to get students excited about studying #religion.

https://theconversation.com/video-games-teach-students-in-this-class-how-religion-works-in-the-modern-world-257511
#gaming #PCGaming

 

#TikTok was in court today to overturn a U.S. law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned.

It’s the latest development in a lengthy saga over the app that many politicians in Washington fear is a security risk.

But why is TikTok controversial?

Here’s a quick rundown of reads from #cybersecurity, #socialmedia and legal experts:

https://theconversation.com/tiktok-ban-goes-to-the-court-5-essential-reads-on-the-case-and-its-consequences-239160
#news #technology

 

Curators from the Smithsonian will be diving for balloons, scooping up signs and hoping to score some hot dish at the #DNC this week.

We talked to three of them about how they select items to be used in the future to explain what's going on now (republished on @medium) https://medium.com/@ConversationUS/how-smithsonian-curators-scavenge-political-conventions-to-explain-the-present-to-the-future-d90a8cb99f80 #News #USPolitics #DNC2024 @histodons

 

The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half.

The pharmaceutical company Teva sells QVAR RediHaler, a corticosteroid inhaler, for $286 in the U.S.

In Germany, Teva sells that same inhaler for $9.

https://theconversation.com/asthma-meds-have-become-shockingly-unaffordable-but-relief-may-be-on-the-way-222858
#health

 

17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide.

That’s long enough to wrap Earth 10x at the equator – and is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza COMBINED.

https://theconversation.com/new-england-stone-walls-lie-at-the-intersection-of-history-archaeology-ecology-and-geoscience-and-deserve-a-science-of-their-own-216701
#agriculture #history @histodons #Histodons

 

The UN’s Genocide Convention, in its 75 years, has not stopped genocide.

Far from it.

But there is some value to the international treaty.

https://theconversation.com/the-landmark-genocide-convention-has-had-mixed-results-since-the-un-approved-it-75-years-ago-219296
#history @histodons #Histodons #humanrights #genocide

 

1957: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, and there's concern of the U.S.' shortage of Russian speakers to monitor Soviet activity

1958: Congress authorizes funding to strengthen education in foreign language

2023: A new report shows the study of languages other than English experienced an unprecedented drop of 16.6% since 2016

“This creates greater risks for national security,” explains a professor:
https://theconversation.com/fewer-u-s-college-students-are-studying-a-foreign-language-and-that-spells-trouble-for-national-security-198135

@academicchatter #academicchatter #HigherEd #ForeignPolicy

 

Henry #Kissinger is dead at the age of 100.

Here's one Cambodian's verdict
"I’m a scholar of the political economy of Cambodia who, as a child, escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge regime with four siblings...
In both a professional and personal sense, I am aware of the near 50-year impact Kissinger’s policies during the Vietnam War have had on the country of my birth."

That impact was destruction, death and trauma.

https://theconversation.com/henry-kissingers-bombing-campaign-likely-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cambodians-and-set-path-for-the-ravages-of-the-khmer-rouge-209353
@histodons #News

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