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This piece makes the interesting case that accountants can be a first line of defense against cyber threats.
Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
https://theconversation.com/research-r

Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
Researchers found auditors who had dealt with one cyber-breached client became more likely to spot serious weaknesses in systems and controls elsewhere.

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts https://theconversation.com/would-you-use-ai-to-break-writers-block-we-asked-5-experts-271627

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts
A publishing giant believes AI can help break writers’ block. We asked 5 creative writing experts if they’d use it that way – and the range of results surprised us.

Je verdienmodel voor een belangrijk deel baseren op boetes en dan zielig gaan doen als er te weinig geld binnenkomt … bizar!
Eerste elektronische tolweg is financieel fiasco: geen winst, maar miljoenenverlies
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onderzoek/artike…

Donkerrode cijfers voor eerste elektronische tolweg in Nederland: boetegolf blijft uit
De eerste elektronische tolweg van ons land blijkt een financieel drama. De Blankenburgverbinding (A24) in Zuid-Holland levert veel minder tolgeld op dan de overheid had verwacht, mede doordat er ten onrechte gerekend was op een enorme boetegolf. Het ministerie gaat nu zelfs uit van een verlies van 10 miljoen euro, ontdekte RTL Nieuws.

BALD IST WEIHNACHTEN! 😃
#Kinder haben das mit dem Backen Fantasie drauf.
Werbung: Das Rezept ist aus meinem Weihnachtsplätzchenbuch, ISBN: 9783756855209
#plätzchenbacken #weihnachtsplätzchen

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The Knife:
🎵 Heartbeats
#TheKnife
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Mice can be trained to drink water
as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something
https://theconversation.com/gazing-into-the-minds-eye-with-mice-how-neuroscientists-are-seeing-human-vision-more-clearly-…

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly
It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision is shaped by their environment and behavior can clarify the same in people.

"Your next puffer jacket could be made from bulrushes, as carbon-storing peat farming takes off"
#Coats #Fashion #Textiles

Your next puffer jacket could be made from bulrushes, as carbon-storing peat farming takes off
A researcher explains the benefits of a relatively new farming practice called paludiculture.

While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.

"Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?
The viral idea that polite prompts waste electricity is an exaggeration. But it reflects a growing awareness of AI’s enormous infrastructure costs.

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.