Links 8/14/2024 | bare capitalism
Gaza As an IDF soldier and Holocaust historian, I was deeply moved by my recent visit to Israel Omer Bartov, Guardian. Weekend carnage in Gaza […]
Month: August 2024
Video Games and Appearance – Marginal REVOLUTION
We investigate the relationship between visual appeal and the time people devote to a video/computer game. The average American teenager spends 2.6% of their waking […]
Cybersecurity should get back to reality and ditch the hype
At the same time, organizations must take a prudent approach to investing in cybersecurity, recognizing that real security is not an off-the-shelf commodity. Leaders should […]
Emergent Ventures India, eighth batch
Posted and selected by Shruti Rajagopalan: Lakshay Taneja is an inventor and entrepreneur with a background in blockchain and AI. He received an EV grant […]
Microsoft is closing six vulnerabilities that have been continuously exploited
The proximity of Black Hat and DEF CON may have played a role in that, however, as some of the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities emerged from […]
Six 0 Days Ahead of Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Push – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 90 security vulnerabilities Windows and related software, incl the six biggest mistakes of zero days which are […]
NIST finally agrees on quantum-safe crypto standards
NIST says this algorithm is intended to serve as a backup in case ML-DSA appears compromised. In addition to algorithms In addition to statistical encryption […]
Miter, Microsoft differs in how bad the MS Office bug is
In the security advisory that was last updated on Saturday, Microsoft gave the feature “Exploitation is Less Possible”, which explains in part as follows: “Microsoft’s […]
Finally, the exchange rate models seem to work very well
Exchange models are the best fit for the US dollar in the 21st century. A “standard” model that includes real interest rates and expected US […]
The Great Replacement “Theory” * Comes to Heritage Economics
EJ Antoni of the Heritage Foundation writes in X (August 2): Last year, native Americans lost 1.2 million jobs while employment of immigrants increased by […]