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Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time
A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
Berk Bytes security snapshot:
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
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Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
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Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.
This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
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The suicide rate for veterans is 50 per cent higher than that of the general population, and a quarter of V.A. workers are veterans. Nonetheless, Veterans Crisis Line employees were among the workers targeted for termination by the Trump Administration.
Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
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The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. resulted in the closing of 16 agricultural-innovation labs on the campuses of 13 U.S. universities. “By killing these programs,” an agricultural economist said, “you’re putting America at a competitive disadvantage.”
Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
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Data from the BOND Trends–Artificial Intelligence May 2025 report.
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
US stocks underperform rest of world by widest margin since 1993
https://www.ft.com/content/f3a7d677-bdf1-4a85-8ae3-aaea668d8c07
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I fought damn hard to create the 988 Hotline because help should not be hard to get – regardless of who you are or where you live.
This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff policies have unsettled the venture capital world, further darkening an already gloomy outlook for IPOs. www.wired.com/story/tariff...
“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months”
Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
Tweet from @OdedRechavi showing a seagull sitting in the middle, on a broken fence link with the words "Correlation Vs. Causation"
ahahaha brilliant
As anyone who followed the stock market during the 2008 financial crisis can tell you, big swings up-and-down are a bad sign, not an indication that things are about to start steadily rising again.
US treasury yields are the only adult in the room at this point
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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“While the new tariffs may eventually be negotiated down, we should prepare for a fundamental shift in trade and capital flows. This is not a change in policy; it’s a structural change."
- Citi CEO Jane Fraser
I’ve spent eight long years helping women access capital. Can you imagine what would happen if they suddenly didn't need to?
...I believe we're about to find out.
My latest for @fortunemagazine.bsky.social - seedstrapping, tiny teams, and how AI will blow the doors of entrepreneurship wide open.
In just 10 weeks, @buildwithtori.com & @reedharmeyer.bsky.social built a tiktok alternative, got the investment @mcuban.bsky.social, and grew their beta so fast that it no longer fit on testflight.
I'm proud to be the second check in.
Congratulations @skylight.social!
Before “software engineer” was a title, six women programmed the first general-purpose computer—ENIAC—without code, manuals, or precedent. Their legacy shaped modern computing and reminds us that the story of technology begins with human ingenuity.
The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
