Month: January 2022
Good Ad-cookie Replacement
Third-party cookies use people’s browsing history to target ads that then follow them from site to site. Google’s “indecision” over what system it wants to replace cookies has been criticised by some in the ad industry. It comes as the technology giant said an interest-based user-tracking system, Topics, would now replace its earlier proposal, Federated
El Salvador urged to remove Bitcoin as legal tender
In September, El Salvador became the first country to allow consumers to use the cryptocurrency in all transactions, alongside the US dollar. The decision led to large-scale protests over fears it would bring instability and inflation to the impoverished Latin American country. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged El Salvador to reverse its decision
Crypto money laundering
Criminals laundered $8.6bn of cryptocurrency in 2021, up by 30% from the previous year, a report by blockchain data company Chainalysis says. The company previously estimated criminals received a record $14bn in cryptocurrencies in 2021. Chainalysis says it tracks cryptocurrency wallets controlled by criminals such as ransomware attackers, malware operators, scammers, human traffickers, dark net
quantum apocalypse
A number of countries are working hard and investing huge sums of money to develop these super-fast quantum computers with a view to gaining strategic advantage in the cyber-sphere. Every day vast quantities of encrypted data – including yours and mine – are being harvested without our permission and stored in data banks, ready for
Neil Young removed from Spotify
Spotify has begun removing music by Neil Young after the rock star called for the streaming platform to choose between him and podcaster Joe Rogan. Rogan has been criticised for interviewing an infectious disease specialist who opposes Covid-19 vaccines for children. The Canadian-American musician behind classic rock hits such as Harvest Moon and Heart of
earthquakes prediction
after decades of failed attempts and unsubstantiated claims about earthquake prediction, a certain scepticism is warranted and Paul Johnson, a geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is indeed playing down the predictive potential of what he is up to it is nevertheless the case that, as part of investigations intended to understand the science of
Malaria Resistance Test
Malaria is most often a problem in poor countries, where such laboratories are scarce, and so is money to pay for tests and to maintain the machines needed to conduct them. A better way for doctors and paramedics in the field to be able to tell, for a particular patient, which drugs the infection is
Inflammatory Response to Covid-19
Long Covid. Defined by the persistence of physical and neuropsychiatric symptoms over a period of 12 weeks or longer, the exact causes of long Covid-19 remain largely elusive as many Covid-19 patients, the end of the acute stage of infection . In long Covid patients they have uncovered evidence of sustained inflammation and activation of
Adding Suspicious Files on Google Drive
A simple new feature that’s been added to Google Drive will help its users avoid becoming these insidious attacks. Files that Google’s advanced malware detection finds sketchy will be flagged. What is this new layer of defense? It’s a simple, brightly-colored banner across the top of the page. These banners will start rolling out across
Treatment of Opioid Addiction
Food and Drug Administration has approved an investigational new drug application for a clinical trial to evaluate CBD as an adjunctive method to treat opioid use disorder. The FDA’s approval for the clinical trial evaluating Nantheia ATL5, an investigational drug using CBD as an adjunctive treatment for opioid use disorder. Nantheia ATL5 is an oral