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When the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, many of us who have been studying privacy for vulnerable individuals came to a troubling realization: The marginalized and vulnerable populations whose online risks have been the subject of our attention are likely to grow exponentially. These groups are poised to encompass all women of child-bearing age, regardless of how secure and how privileged they may have imagined themselves to be. In…

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on air when the latter made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, shaved head. Aftermath, Smith has been banned from the Academy for 10 years following the incident and recently made a trip to India, reportedly to visit spiritual leader Sadhguru. His actions have affected his professional as well as his personal life. The projects that he was a part of, have either been postponed or cancelled. There has been a lot of talk about Will Smith on the internet this year since the Oscar 2022…

There are two ways for the job market to cool off. One is for hiring to slow considerably. The other is for more people to enter the labor force. The latter is obviously preferable, but it isn’t clear how much of the latter the U.S. is going to get. The Labor Department on Friday reported that the economy added a seasonally adjusted 428,000 jobs in April—equal with March’s gain and showing employment is growing at a heady clip. The unemployment rate, which is based off a separate survey,…

In 2009, USAID, the US government agency responsible for international development, initiated Predict, a groundbreaking project for its time. The $200 million program was tasked with building other countries’ capabilities to detect new viruses and manage outbreaks, studying the human-wildlife interface and learning about how viruses cross over into humans. Its headline work was viral discovery: directly finding novel viruses in wildlife that posed a risk of a pandemic before they spilled over, and ideally, prevent…

A judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter.But San Francisco federal district court Judge James Donato left the door open for Trump and other plaintiffs to file an amended complaint against Twitter that is consistent with his written decision Friday to toss the lawsuit in its entirety.The social media giant had banned Trump on Jan. 8, 2021, citing the risk of the incitement of further violence on the heels of the Capitol riot by a mob of supporters of the…