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Lapsus$ hackers leaked Microsoft’s Bing and Cortana source code. How bad is that, really?

Posted on Monday 11 Apr 2022. 873 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Some of the comments in regards to Dwayne Haskins' untimely death shows we have a long way to go in how we look at athletes

Hustle uses shortcuts and effort to bend the conventions of society to get more than the hustler’s fair share of attention. Hustle burns trust for awareness. Because it’s a shortcut, hu…

Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the

"Shame on Congress for not sucking it up and doing what needs to be done," the senator told Recode.

Our new project, The Carbon Almanac, is now inviting supporting partners to join us. We are all volunteers and we’re focused on offering institutions a chance to amplify the conversation abou…

Linda Ronstadt had Rupert Murdoch’s number as far back as 1983, three years before he launched Fox News. Appearing on Australia’s Don Lane Show, she said, “You gave us Rupert Murd…

Attitudes to work by younger colleagues could not be more different to those of their predecessors, especially the ones portrayed in two recent TV series.

gilded age and the limits of the sentimental period drama

A fantastic template letter for Florida teachers to send to families of students regarding the implementation of “Don’t Say Gay” is naturally freaking out a conservative group tha…

Life’s a tragedy. It always surprises us, and eventually, we all die. But tragedies don’t have to lead to catastrophes. A catastrophe is a shared emergency that overwhelms our interacti…

The U.S. botches its India diplomacy as it fails to comprehend Delhi’s understanding of the new realities of the emerging multipolar world.

Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype

If you’re among those who can still work remotely at least part of the time, you need to reconsider your wardrobe.

Ars chats with historian Barry Strauss about his book, The War that Made the Roman Empire.

The photo above dates from early 1978, when Hodskins Simone & Searls, a new ad agency, was born in Durham, North Carolina. Specifically, at 602 West Chapel Hill Street. Click on that link and y…

We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.

It’s not a word, but perhaps it should be. If a competitor goes after your customers by offering them faster service, all day and all night, you’ve been anytimed. And if your boss, fear…

Experts say studying those who have not yet caught Covid has become just as critical as studying those who have.

"I am a professional rememberer," writes Nathan Rabin in The Joy of Trash. "It is my duty to remember not just...

Why exploring different hubs of your company’s network will become an increasingly popular option.

What’s the variance in customer service at your organization? Even if there’s just one employee, the question is: If an issue is handled by a committed employee having a good attitude, …