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The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

Vox

He now works as a threat hunter at the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) in Vietnam, in addition to serving as the co-founder of Chống Lừa Đảo, an anti-scam nonprofit. It also doesn’t seem like there’s much local authorities can do about it. Exactly how hackers go after legitimate accounts varies.

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We need the right kind of climate optimism

Vox

At its extreme, changeable pessimism is susceptible to the sort of ideas advanced by biologist Paul Ehrlich, who has been predicting environmental collapse due to human overpopulation for over half a century. Yes, we’ve made amazing strides in human well-being, but we now have very large, very novel problems to tackle: environmental ones.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She is also the President and founder of the Beijing Academy of Soft Technology, and the author of Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft Technology (2005; 2011). She has authored over 60 journal articles and book chapters, many with a focus on educational futures. Professor Ivana Milojevi? Twitter: @MareeConway.

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New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop source sues Twitter for defamation

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John Paul Mac Isaac was the owner of The Mac Shop, a Delaware computer repair business. In October, the New York Post reported that The Mac Shop had been paid to recover data from a laptop belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and it published emails and pictures allegedly from a copy of the hard drive.

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