đ Articles: Sunday 19.May.2024
9to5Mac: Security Bite: Most common macOS malware in 2024 so far
It is a long-standing misconception that Macs are impervious to malware. Unfortunately, this has never been the case. While Apple might hope people continue to overlook the severity, Mac users continue to be caught off guard by cybercriminalsâ advanced attack methods. Below, you can find the most common macOS malware in 2024 so farâŠ
Guardian: Ex-ministers warn UK universities will go bust without higher fees or funding
Vice-chancellors and former ministers are warning that the cash crisis facing universities is so serious that the next government will have to urgently raise tuition fees or increase funding to avoid bankruptcies within two years.
They said the state of university finances was more dire than revealed in last weekâs report by the Office for Students, which forecast 40% of Englandâs universities would end this year in the red.
Vice-chancellors said that increases of between ÂŁ2,000 to ÂŁ3,500 a year for each student would be needed to stabilise the sector.
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Another former higher education minister, the Labour MP Margaret Hodge, said raising fees was “politically impossible” but that the funding system needed to be made more progressive.
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Vivienne Stern, the chief executive of Universities UK, the sector’s main lobby group, said there were two big things the next government could do: reinstate raising tuition fees in line with inflation each year, and for ministers to stop using international students as a political football in the immigration debate.
Recent visa changes have led to a slump in international student applications, depriving universities of a lucrative source of revenue.
Disappointing how all the debate is about costs and revenues, and not about why people, either domestic or foreign, should be going to university. Total lack of vision.
Guardian: Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention
During a bombastic speech in Dallas, GOP frontrunner asks: âAre we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?â
Chilling.
Guardian: âOne hell of a storm is comingâ: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage
A graphic novel investigating Indigenous identity in Canada has prompted outrage from MĂ©tis groups, who say the book undermines their history and represents an attack on their sovereignty.
The work is the result of a third-year history seminar at Dalhousie University, where students collaborated on a book examining thorny questions over ancestry and identity.
Guardian: Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: âUltra-processed products are food that lies to usâ
The author on how his mission to improve our national diet began â and where it needs to go.
Globe: Canada suffocates our teams, then blames them when they come up short
The inaugural Professional Womenâs Hockey League season was a North American project, but it had a national purpose. It was going to prove that Canada can win a top-level pro-hockey championship.
There were three Canadian teams in a six-team league â a 50-50 shot. During the regular season, Toronto and Montreal were the best teams by far.
The postseason set-up was rigged to benefit the top finisher. Toronto was allowed to pick its first-round opponent. The playoffs would be a quick-and-dirty affair â two best-of-fives â presumably favouring the in-form squads.
This is as close as you can get to fixing the system, but Canada still couldn’t get anywhere near closing it out.
Montreal was swept by Boston. Toronto wishes it could have got off that easy. It’s one thing to lose. It’s another thing to lose to a team you don’t rate, because you asked to play them.
ChangeCreator: Lessons For a Simpler Sustainable Life By Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard
Axios: What to know about Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash
Raisi and other officials were returning from a ceremony to open the Qiz Qalasi Dam, located on the border of Iran and Azerbaijan, with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Three other helicopters were traveling with Raisi’s aircraft, but lost contact before the crash.
ScienceAlert: High-Potency Cannabis Linked to Dramatically Higher Risk of Psychotic Episodes
Consuming higher-potency cannabis between the ages of 16 and 18 doubles the likelihood of psychotic experiences between the ages of 19 and 24, compared with lower-potency cannabis â according to a new study of 1,560 UK adults.
NewsNation: More women, children joining drug cartels: Reports
Armes says a good example is Michelle Angelica Pineda, known as âLa Chely,â who has a reputation for extreme brutality. When she was recently arrested in El Paso in February, police found weapons, drugs and other material needed to set up a drug trafficking operation in her motel room.
âShe would cut out the heart of her victims and offer them to the patron saint of the drug traffickers ⊠Santa Muerte.â
But it isnât just women who are being recruited by Mexican cartels. A recent report from The Borgen Project claims 350,000 children have been recruited by Mexican criminal organizations. They often promise those kids money and a sense of belonging.
Cabel Sasser: The Forged Apple Employee Badge
At first, it looked good. The plastic was scuffed with age, the tape on the map was yellowed, the logo was (mostly) correct, and Sherry Livingston really was Employee #10.
But it also felt a little off. The scuffing looked⊠sandpapery. The splotches on the map felt overcooked. And I couldnât stop looking at the âtypewrittenâ partâŠ
With comments from Randy Wigginton, Cabel Sasser, and Chris Espinosa!
Guardian: Horizon: An American Saga â Chapter 1: Costner casts himself as wildly desirable cowboy
After three saddle-sore hours, Kevin Costnerâs handsome-looking but oddly listless new western doesnât get much done in the way of satisfying storytelling.
Admittedly, this is supposed to be just the first of a multi-part saga for which Costner is director, co-writer and star. But it somehow doesnât establish anything exciting for its various unresolved storylines, and doesnât leave us suspensefully hanging for anything else.
In fact, the ploddingly paced epic ends by suddenly accelerating into a very peculiar preview montage of part two, with Costner speeding around punching people weâve never seen before â as if someone had accidentally leant on the fast-forward button and we got to watch the whole of the second section in 25 seconds.
Waterworld on land?
Last Updated: 19.May.2024 23:33 EDT