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"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension

How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.

✈️ Once high-flying bankers in Hong Kong become a lost generation
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Once high-flying bankers in Hong Kong become a lost generation
The damage is underscored by the barrage of layoffs, the retreat of global capital, and the city’s diminishing role as an international financial center.

UK Defense Ministry: Russia likely grounds its A-50 aircraft fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/02/uk-defense-ministry.html

Findings, published Jan. 17 in Cell Stem Cell, show that dopamine neurons infected with SARS-CoV-2 stop working and send out chemical signals that cause inflammation.
Normally, these neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in feelings of pleasure, motivation, memory, sleep and movement.
Damage to these neurons is also connected to Parkinson’s disease.
“This project started out to investigate how various types of cells in different organs respond to …

SARS-CoV-2 infection causes dopaminergic neuron senescence
Yang and colleagues demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 can infect hPSC-derived midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons and induce cellular senescence. Several drug candidates were identified to rescue SARS-CoV-2 infection and DA neuron senescence. Inflammation and cellular senescence were also identified in substantia nigra tissue of COVID-19 patients.

Microsoft's lax security blasted by investigators after serious breach
Cascade of failings allowed Chinese hackers to access government emails, says US review board
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4192192/microsofts-lax-secu…

Microsoft's lax security blasted by investigators after serious breach
A damning report by the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), has revealed a "cascade of errors and security failures" at Microsoft which allowed a major breach of its systems last year.

👍 New York judge denies Trump’s immunity claim in hush money case | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-trial-hush-money-immunity-merchan-b2522961.html

New York judge denies Trump’s immunity claim in hush money case
In denying the motion to delay the criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan also scolded former president for filing late

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04971 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

A Survey on Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) shifts the modeling of user preferences from flat to stereoscopic by integrating and learning interaction information from multiple domains at different granularities (ranging from inter-sequence to intra-sequence and from single-domain to cross-domain). In this survey, we first define the CDSR problem using a four-dimensional tensor and then analyze its multi-type input representations under multidirectional dimensionality reductions. Following tha…

Deposition of highly-crystalline AlScN thin films using synchronized HiPIMS -- from combinatorial screening to piezoelectric devices
Jyotish Patidar (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, D\"ubendorf, Switzerland), Kerstin Thorwarth (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, D\"ubendorf, Switzerland), Thorsten Schmitz-Kempen (aixACCT Systems GmbH, Aachen, Germany), Roland Kessels (aixACCT Systems GmbH, Aachen, Germ…

Deposition of highly-crystalline AlScN thin films using synchronized HiPIMS -- from combinatorial screening to piezoelectric devices
Fueled by the 5G revolution, the demand for advanced radio frequency micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) based on AlScN is growing rapidly. However, synthesizing high-quality, textured AlScN thin films is challenging. Current approaches typically rely on high temperatures and expensive compound targets. In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of ionized physical vapor deposition to deposit highly oriented AlScN films with minimal defects at lower temperatures. Using metal-ion synchroni…

👍 New York judge denies Trump’s immunity claim in hush money case | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-trial-hush-money-immunity-merchan-b2522961.html

New York judge denies Trump’s immunity claim in hush money case
In denying the motion to delay the criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan also scolded former president for filing late