Month: April 2022
shops shutdown after cyber-attack
The Works has been forced to shut shops temporarily and suspend new stock deliveries after a cyber-attack. The retailer said five of its 526 shops have been closed since last week after hackers gained access to its computer systems and caused issues with its tills. Customers are experiencing longer delivery times for online orders as
limit Russian government accounts on Twitter
Currently Putin has two official accounts on the social media site: one in Russian and one in English. They have 3.6 million and 1.7 million followers respectively. Twitter said allowing Russian government officials to post freely on the social media site, whilst simultaneously limiting the platform in Russia “creates a harmful information imbalance”. Twitter has
Russian darknet site
The website was a bastion of cyber-crime, surviving for more than six years selling drugs and illegal goods. Hydra specialised in same-day ‘dead drop’ services, where drug dealers (vendors) hide packages in public places before informing customers of the pick-up location. In the past six months, many high-profile darknet markets have shut down but Hydra
Twitter Edit Button
Twitter has confirmed that it is working on an edit button that would allow users to change tweets after they have been posted. It comes after new board member, Tesla boss Elon Musk, asked his followers in a Twitter poll whether they wanted the feature. The social media firm’s communications team tweeted: “Now that everyone
3D printed fingertips
A 3D-printed fingertip made to help improve prosthetics has a sense of touch like human skin. Researchers found the new fingertip was able to produce artificial nerve signals that mimic those of humans. Eventually researchers hope to be able to make artificial skin that is indistinguishable from real skin. The bumps are made on 3D
Decline in Birthrate
Birthrates have fallen in many developed countries as a result of improved education, health care, and access to contraception. As it stands the countries with the worst sanitation, access to food and water, access to healthcare and education are the countries with the highest birth rates. In many developing countries birthrates are higher in correlation
Sex Without Consent
On 17th December 2020 Denmark’s parliament voted to change the legal definition of rape, from a forced-based definition to defining all sex without consent as an act of rape. Denmark now joins nine other European countries that have updated the legal definition of rape to be based around consent, in order to help fight sexual
Vaccinating Children
Any controversy around COVID-19 vaccines for children revolve around the issues of an increase in myocarditis and pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart, after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in children, but these cases are extremely rare, and the majority that have experienced this side effect have quickly recovered after medication and rest. The side effects of
Nurturing Tolerance in the society and individual
In 1945 Karl Popper addressed the paradox of tolerance in his book, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Popper wrote “if we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance
Vaccines and Autism
In 1998 British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a fraudulent article in a prominent medical journal linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination to autism. Both mainstream and social media allowed this to become a popular modern myth and it fed conspiracy theories and subsequently led to a decrease in the number of parents allowing