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Yesterday (Sept. 7) Equifax, one of the three major US credit bureaus, reported a security breach that may have compromised 143 million customers‘ personal data, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s license numbers. Equifax found out about the hack on July 29, according to the company, despite only announcing it yesterday. The […]

Despite US president Donald Trump’s repeated claims that Obamacare is dead, or that it will implode, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) isn’t going anywhere yet. But you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the amount of enrollment outreach and information circulating. Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spent over $100 million in […]Read More

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas, Hurricane Irma has ransacked the Caribbean islands, killing at least 24 people and impacting an estimated 1.2 million more as it barrels toward the southeastern US. Current predictions show Irma reaching the Florida Keys and South Florida by early Sunday (Sept. 10) as at least a […]

You may have bottles of ketchup in your fridge older than new chief financial officer of Kraft Heinz. David Knopf, 29, will assume the role Oct. 1, the company said today (Sept. 8), making him the youngest CFO to lead one of the US’s largest companies. (The next youngest, at 27, is Andrew Power of […]

Correction: An earlier version of this article said the vulnerability exploited by the hackers who broke into Equifax was the one disclosed on Sep. 4. It’s possible that the vulnerability that was targeted was one disclosed in March. We will update this post when we’ve confirmed which vulnerability it was. The credit reporting agency Equifax […]

1. This is a shirt hole Question: How can you pay $13 for a nice, new shirt without someone getting hurt? Answer: You can’t. The LA Times provides an in-depth look at the way (often remarkably) inexpensive clothes get made, who’s doing the work, and how sweatshop workers can get paid $4 an hour, right […]

Imagine for a moment that you were Equifax, forced to disclose to 143 million US consumers that their sensitive personal information had been compromised in a data breach that took place from mid-May to July. It is an unenviable position to be in. You would, of course, issue a public apology, as chairman and CEO […]

Wild dogs aren’t totally wild, it turns out. As in any society, there are complex rules in their packs, plus powerful types who disproportionately influence the group. Yet the will of the many does at times prevail. A new paper in the journal Proceedings of Royal Society B reveals that when wild dogs in Botswana […]

Earlier this week, doctors at the Mayo Clinic and the Scripps Research Institute published a review article in the Journal of American Geriatrics calling and outlining designs for human clinical trials on the first class of drugs developed specifically to treat aging. The “geroscience hypothesis” is relatively new to the world of accepted science. It […]

It’s a bit of a mythical beast, like a unicorn: the Silicon Valley Libertarian. Sure, they exist. There is Peter Thiel, a dyed-in-the-wool believer. He holds that humanity’s hope lies in floating cities beyond the reach of needling bureaucrats and high marginal tax rates (see the Seasteading Institute). There are also groups such as the […]

Silicon Valley’s elite is decidedly liberal, according to a new paper out from researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. A survey of more than 600 well-to-do technology leaders and founders—most of them millionaires—revealed that these people overwhelmingly identify as Democrats and supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. They value being cosmopolitan, […]Read More

Ahead of Hurricane Irma’s landfall in Puerto Rico, a Delta Air Lines flight from New York was able to burn into San Juan this afternoon, load up passengers, and squeak out again, threading its way through a rain band as the hurricane approached. Jason Rabinowitz, an aviation industry observer, tracked the flight all along the […]