As a series of massive fires continues to blaze through the Los Angeles area, blanketing neighborhoods with smoke and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, air quality remains unhealthy throughout many parts of the county. Wildfire smoke is a mixture of water vapor, gases, and microscopic particles known as particulate matter. The smallest […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new measure on Friday that could protect your Robux from scammers and hackers. The proposed rule would interpret terms in the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, or EFTA, which has traditionally been used to protect consumers from unauthorized debit transactions, to include some virtual currencies supplied by gaming and […]
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Nature, Published online: 30 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04230-3 Apply the legal ‘true malice’ principle to protect research-misconduct sleuths
Lily-Rose Depp has no desire to be famous and will do anything to protect her privacy. The actress, daughter of Johnny Depp and French singer and model Vanessa Paradis, has recently carved a place for herself in Hollywood, thanks to her roles in HBO’s The Idol and director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. However, she recently opened […]
Sporting aviator sunglasses and standing in front of a lectern last month in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon, outgoing President Joe Biden spoke of the importance of safeguarding the world’s carbon-rich forests — a message he delivered numerous times throughout his tenure. “The most powerful solution we have to fight climate change […]
Earlier this month, a group of professors from the normally stodgy world of tax law wrote to President Joe Biden calling on him to free the IRS contractor who leaked the tax returns of Donald Trump and thousands of millionaires and billionaires. Charles Littlejohn’s five-year sentence was six times the recommended maximum, the professors said, […]
Hackers have gained sweeping access to U.S. text messages and phone calls — and in response, the FBI is falling back on the same warmed-over, bad advice about encryption that it has trotted out for years. In response to the Salt Typhoon hack, attributed to state-backed hackers from China, the bureau is touting the long-debunked […]
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers including California Sen. Alex Padilla are urging President Biden to take action now to protect immigrants with temporary legal statuses and work authorizations. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to move quickly to crack down on immigrants once he takes office, including mass deportations. The lawmakers said during a news conference Wednesday that […]
A year from now, children under the age of 16 in Australia will be barred from many social-media platforms — the highest minimum-age limit in the world. Other countries or regions have introduced similar bans and more say they’re considering them, owing to parents’ concerns that children are exposed to cyber-bullying, scams and adult content […]
