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IMF: “Cyberattacks have more than doubled since the pandemic. While companies have historically suffered relatively modest direct losses from cyberattacks, some have experienced a much heavier toll. US credit reporting agency Equifax, for example, paid more than $1 billion in penalties after a major data breach in 2017 that affected about 150 million consumers. As …
How to Geek: “Key Takeaways To grab all images, go to File > Download > Web Page, unzip the download, and browse the “images” folder. If you only need one image, right-click it, select View More Actions > Save to Keep, then download the image from Google Keep. For a quick and dirty method, take …
Mashable: “Whether you’re trying to manage screen time and avoid certain websites, or whether you’re setting some boundaries on your kid’s device, there’s an easy way to block sites on your iPhone. If it’s specifically the latter, you can also set up parental controls on your iPhone — just know they’re not the full answer. …
Futurism: “It’s a big day for bookworms: scientists studying how reading fiction affects your brain say the news is very good. In an interview with PsyPost, Lena Wimmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s Maximilian University, explained that she and her colleagues wanted to lay the groundwork for quantitative studies about fiction’s effect on thinking — and …
The New York Times [unpaywalled]: “The insurance turmoil caused by climate change — which had been concentrated in Florida, California and Louisiana — is fast becoming a contagion, spreading to states like Iowa, Arkansas, Ohio, Utah and Washington. Even in the Northeast, where homeowners insurance was still generally profitable last year, the trends are worsening. …
“New InfluenceMap analysis finds that negative lobbying by the world’s largest automakers is putting global climate targets at risk and threatening the transition to electric vehicles. This report analyses the climate policy engagement strategies of fifteen of the largest global automakers in seven key regions (Australia, EU, Japan, India, South Korea, UK, US). It shows …
Washington Post [read free via MSN]: “As the tech giant gears up for Google I/O, its annual developer conference, this week, creators like Matherne are worried about the expanding reach of its new search tool that incorporates artificial intelligence. The product, dubbed “Search Generative Experience,” or SGE, directly answers queries with complex, multi-paragraph replies that …
The Federal Trade Commission will host an online compliance webinar to provide an overview of the FTC’s final rule banning noncompetes. The webinar will include information on how to comply with the rule after its effective date. Members of the public can submit questions ahead of the webinar by emailing [email protected].
NPR: “The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail Recently, the USDA updated its plant hardiness map for the first time in 11 years. If you’re a gardener — and everybody can be a gardener, even on a balcony or a stoop — this is a big deal! The updated map opens …
VentureBeat: “Today at its Spring Updates event, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati announced a powerful new multimodal foundation large language model (LLM), GPT-4o (short for GPT-4 Omni), which will be made available to all free ChatGPT users in the coming weeks, and a ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS (later for Windows) that will allow …
