2:00PM Water Cooler 7/2/2024 | bare capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I keep needing to leave notes like this, which is embarrassing. I promised a long Water Cooler today, but […]
CocoaPods flaws leave iOS, macOS apps open to supply chain attacks
A newly patched vulnerability in a software dependency management tool used by app developers for Apple’s iOS and MacOS platforms, could have opened the door […]
Tuesday various links
1. A case study of how the RAND Corporation succeeded. 2. Watch out for the phrase “cheap labor” (me of Bloomberg). 3. Can EdTech take […]
AI agents can detect and exploit known vulnerabilities, research shows
First, the agents were able to find new risks in the test environment – but that does not mean that they can find all types […]
Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Need to Be Extended Because They Don’t Expire
In Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen quotes from a news article on Financial Times: There are many implications of Trump’s investment in the White House,” said […]
A new campaign uses the ‘cluster bomb’ malware to great effect
Based on the origin of the analyzed samples, the study concluded that the campaign is mainly targeting the US, Germany, and Russia. Malware nest for […]
Links 7/2/2024 | bare capitalism
Revealed: Secret 428-year-old letter reveals Elizabeth I’s spy network Guardian (Kevin W) The Secret, Magic Life of Lithium Nomea (Micael T) Snowball Earth and the […]
Event research of sorts
Big, sudden swings in election chances are not uncommon in American politics, although it seems we’ve had one recently. Here are some results, as reported […]
Singapore, Inc.
In a recent interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair discussed the principles of Lee Kuan Yew—the father of modern […]
Facing the NATO Military Summit in Washington
Yves here. While NATO plans to escalate the conflicts of the Collective West to the point where they are too wide to win, it is […]