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S3AI Will Increase the Quantity -- and Quality -- of Phishing Scams - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts. Companies need to: 1) understand the asymmetrical capabilities of AI-enhanced phishing, 2) determine the company or division’s phishing threat severity level, and 3) confirm their current phishing awareness routines.
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S5S6How Galaxies Grew In the Early Universey JWST recently caught three of the universe’s earliest galaxies in the act of pulling themselves together from a giant, dark cloud of hydrogen gas.
The three dim spots of red light in a recent batch of JWST data traveled more than 13 billion light years across space to reach the telescope’s mirrors. That ancient light carries a snapshot of what galaxies looked like between 400 and 600 million years after the Big Bang, back when the universe was basically a cosmic toddler. And all three of these early galaxies are shrouded in dense hydrogen gas, which is slowly falling into the galaxies’ gravity wells — where it will eventually help them form new stars.
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S7S8Japan's war on China and the weaponisation of Confucianism | Aeon Essays is a professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Japan. He is the author of Confucianism’s Prospects (2019) and the editor of Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan (2022). He is currently working on a new edited volume titled ‘Confucianism at War: 1931-1945’.
At the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946-48), convened to try Japanese military and civilian leaders for war crimes, one defendant delivered a puzzling explanation for Japan’s 1937-45 war against China. The aim of the struggle, he said, had been to make ‘the Chinese undergo self-reflection’, adding: ‘It is just the same as in a family when an older brother has taken all that he can stand from his ill-behaved younger brother and has to chastise him to make him behave properly.’ That defendant was General Matsui Iwane, commander of the army that devastated Shanghai before perpetrating the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937. According to the Military Tribunal, at least 200,000 were murdered and 20,000 women raped in the first weeks of the city’s occupation.
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S9S10How embracing the cringe can help your dating life We can all agree that dating is hard. Getting to know people can feel vulnerable, but at the same time, exciting! We can also agree that feeling rejected can be one of the worst feelings, especially after we put ourselves out there.
Dating can also expose us to a lot of cringey things, maybe even something we didn’t know we’d consider cringey. Think of cringe like something that makes you uncomfortable, or something about someone else that you don’t find attractive.
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S11What's the difference between shyness and social anxiety? What’s the difference? is a new editorial product that explains the similarities and differences between commonly confused health and medical terms, and why they matter.
The terms “shyness” and “social anxiety” are often used interchangeably because they both involve feeling uncomfortable in social situations.
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S13S14What are nootropics and do they really boost your brain?
PhD candidate studying the effects of nutrients on sleep, University of Canberra
Humans have long been searching for a “magic elixir” to make us smarter, and improve our focus and memory. This includes traditional Chinese medicine used thousands of years ago to improve cognitive function.
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S15S16Orangutan diplomacy: why Malaysia's scheme is attracting criticism before it starts Malaysia plans to gift orangutans to major economic partners, as a way of improving its international image and building alliances. The “orangutan diplomacy” plan was confirmed by the nation’s plantation and commodities minister, Johari Abdul Ghani, at a biodiversity conference in early May.
Malaysia made the controversial announcement days after the European Union, one of Malaysia’s biggest palm oil importers, agreed to ban agricultural imports that cultivate crops on lands that were deforested after 2020. Firms wishing to export to the EU would now need to provide proof, such as satellite images, that crops were not grown in such conditions. This could hit Malaysia’s palm oil industry, which has been accused of destroying the forest habitats of endangered species, including the orangutan.
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S17S18AI is cracking a hard problem - giving computers a sense of smell Over 100 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell asked the readers of National Geographic to do something bold and fresh – “to found a new science.” He pointed out that sciences based on the measurements of sound and light already existed. But there was no science of odor. Bell asked his readers to “measure a smell.”
Today, smartphones in most people’s pockets provide impressive built-in capabilities based on the sciences of sound and light: voice assistants, facial recognition and photo enhancement. The science of odor does not offer anything comparable. But that situation is changing, as advances in machine olfaction, also called “digitized smell,” are finally answering Bell’s call to action.
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S19S20Does your service business need AI? Here are 4 rules to help you decide Artificial intelligence is the big thing right now, with industries from finance to health care to retail scrambling to adopt AI or risk being left behind. But speaking as professors of business, we think some companies might be jumping the gun.
Are you a manufacturer? Then if AI reduces your costs without lowering quality and gives you the return on investment you need, go ahead and try it.
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S21S22Burnt out? This is how your employer can help you return to work for the better Lode Godderis a reçu des financements des differents organisations. Un aperçu du financement peut être trouvé sur https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00005874. Il travaille pour KU Leuven et pour IDEWE.
The working world can be a pitiless one, as competition in the marketplace can put significant pressures on employees. Relentless deadlines, shrinking resources and shifting priorities all take their toll on employees’ well-being and mental health. In my home country of Belgium, more than two thirds (66.4%) of individuals on disability for psychological reasons had cases related to depression or burn-out.
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S23S24We can only dream up a better future when we dig into the unfinished past The US philosopher and literary critic, Fredric Jameson, once claimed that it is “easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. As quotes go, this one captures an important aspect of our times, which is that we seem unable to imagine a world different from the present.
Political scientists describe the age we are living in as “post-political”. This controversial concept refers to a noted lack of political alternatives on a global scale.
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S25Research nation: Nottingham is in the middle of a forest of academic excellence What do you know of Nottingham? A Forest, perhaps. Or a Sheriff. Those not from the fine city on the River Trent might argue over whether it is in the north or south of England – both geographically and culturally. I suspect its residents primarily and proudly identify as neither. Indeed the English region it inhabits asserts such independence from the national binary debate in its name – the “East Midlands”.
Despite some family connections to the wider area, it is a city I’ve had limited knowledge of or exposure to over the years. So, yes, before firing off any complaints to me about any of the above, please consider this a bit of an admission of naivety. That said, corrections and clarifications are always welcome.
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S26A national awakening to the Great Plains' gourmet bounty Once overlooked, new restaurants are embracing exciting foods native to the prairie, as well as nearly forgotten Indigenous recipes, cooking techniques and ingredients.
An ocean of grass blanketing the heart of North America, the prairie (also known as the Great Plains) is the largest ecosystem in the US – 1.4 million sq miles of steppe-like flatlands running from western Ohio to the foothills of the Rockies and from northern Mexico well into Canada. Although hailed as America's breadbasket for its prodigious agricultural output, the Great Plains are sometimes also dismissed for offering food that's more plain than gourmet – think: meat and potatoes, bland flavours heavy on grains and soy.
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S27 The GenAI Blind Spot Leaders Have Now The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
Given the rapid pace at which generative AI continues to advance, it’s natural to worry about the completeness of your implementation plans. To help leaders understand the potential pitfalls better, MIT Sloan Management Review interviewed AI experts and IT practitioners at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
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S28Apple's Best New Sci-Fi Show Just Fixed The Biggest Problem With The Multiverse Assuming the multiverse is real, and infinite timelines do exist, then how could you even navigate any of those various branches? In the Apple TV+ series Dark Matter, the notions of the observer effect and existing in a state of quantum “superposition” are essential to making the fictional science of the series work. But, for the purposes of making a propulsive sci-fi TV series, the ground rules for infinity can’t be too infinite. In fact, in Episode 5, one version of Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) explains how the multiverse works in Dark Matter — and it’s a surprisingly simple bit of world-building that elegantly makes the show feel vividly real.
In the world of Jason 1, the “bad” Jason — known as Jason 2 — clinches his get-rich-quick scheme by showing millionaire Leighton (Dayo Okeniyi) how the box can give anyone access to the multiverse. Because Jason 2 is the one who built the box, he’s the character in Dark Matter who knows the most about how it actually works. No other character has successfully navigated the multiverse as well as Jason 2, and, even though he’s kind of the defacto villain of the series, he’s also the one person most likely to have the answers to the various mysteries of the show.
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S2970 Years Later, The Most Bizarre 'Lord of the Rings' Character Is Finally Getting the Spotlight The most powerful character in all of Middle-earth has never actually made it on screen in any Lord of the Rings or Hobbit adaptation, ever. Until now. In The Rings of Power Season 2, Tom Bombadil — J.R.R. Tolkien’s most mysterious and ridiculous character — will finally make his onscreen debut. Here’s why Tom Bombadil has never appeared in an English-speaking Lord of the Rings movie or TV series before, and why his appearance in The Rings of Power could answer some very old questions about this magical being.
As revealed by Vanity Fair, Rory Kinnear is playing Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s second season, which will hit Amazon Prime Video on August 29, 2024. Vanity Fair shared an exclusive image of Kinnear in character, talking to the Stranger (Daniel Weyman). For English-speaking audiences, this is the first time we’ve seen an actor play Tom Bombadil, ever. In fact, the only other live-action Tom Bombadil actors are extremely obscure.
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S30This Netflix Sleeper Hit Secretly Owes Its Success To 'Baldur's Gate 3' Creator Ryoko Kui put in a lot of gamer hours to make Netflix’s fantasy cooking anime a smash hit.
Delicious in Dungeon, Netflix’s new smash-hit anime series, has been delivering a bountiful feast for longtime manga readers and newfound watchers alike. While the series continues an uptick in invigorating fantasy shows with innovative stories in the anime industry, its manga, created by Ryōko Kui, owes a lot of its inspiration to fantasy video games.
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