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Unlock the Editorâs Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The UK Serious Fraud Office and Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation have given themselves 24 hours to settle a dispute over the agencyâs conduct during a probe into the Kazakh mining group. ENRCâs civil trial against the SFO, which was due to start on Monday, has been put on hold for a day while the settlement talks take place.The lawsuit is one part of a legal battle waged by ENRC against the agency over its conduct during the 10-year probe, which has left the…
Our longevity may actually turn out to have a hard limit. In a new study this week, scientists show that the long rise in our collective life expectancy seen during the 20th century has started to slow down as of late. The findings suggest that focusing on simply expanding our lifespan might be short-sighted, the researchers say. Life expectancy at birth is a commonly used metric of an areaâs overall health. It estimates how long the average person born in a particular year (2024, for example) would be expected to survive, given current trends in mortality among different age groups.…
Getty ImagesReleased in this week in 1959, Pillow Talk challenged Hollywood’s conservative morality, cleverly navigating restrictions on how bedroom activities could be portrayed. In the 1980s its stars talked to the BBC about how the film mirrored the attitudes of a nation on the cusp of sexual revolution.”It seemed risquĂ©, but isn’t it funny when you think what they’re showing now?” Doris Day’s playful observation in a rare 1989 BBC interview perfectly encapsulates a film that once pushed Hollywood’s boundaries of acceptability. Released in 1959, Pillow Talk flirted with the themes of modern romance and desire in ways that now feel…
Este artĂculo tambiĂ©n estĂĄ disponible en español. Crypto analyst CobraVanguard has suggested that the Solana-based meme coin MYRO could be the next to reach a $1 billion market cap. This follows his prediction that the meme coin could enjoy a 200% price surge from its current level. Why MYRO Could Enjoy A 200% To $0.2 CobraVanguard mentioned in a TradingView post that the meme coin is forming a falling wedge on the daily timeframe. He claimed that MYRO could enjoy massive upside moves if it breaks out from its current resistance. The analyst added that he expects the price to…
Decades from now, there will be many stories to tell about the early days of Ethereum. We will remenisce about how a peculiar and powerful technology began to change the landscape of trust on the internet. Some will remember being skeptical, while others may claim to have known all along that it would change the world. Those future stories are out of reach for us â obscured as all things are by the challenges and uncertainties of the present moment. But there are other stories out there, right now, that we need to listen to. Stories of people; of their…
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When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldnât make it home that night, his partner wasnât happy. It was September 6, 2023, a Wednesday, and the 56-year-old, a keen hillwalker, had left the house that he shared with Emer Kennedy in Tillicoultry, near the Scottish city of Stirling, before she went to work. His plan was to climb Creise, a 1,100-meter-high peak overlooking Glen Etive, the remote Highland valley made famous by the James Bond film Skyfall.The weather was unusually mild for the season, and Kelly thought he might even have time to âbagâ a second Munro, as the Scottish…
Politics / October 4, 2024 Kamala Harris is trying to appeal to centrist Republicans, but what if they donât exist? And what if the search for them leads her to abandon the Democratic base? Ad Policy Liz Cheney, former US representative and daughter of Dick Cheney, greets Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris during a rally at Ripon College on October 3, 2024, in Ripon, Wisconsin.(Jim Vondruska / Getty Images) The Democratic consultant classâthe immortal swamp things of DCâonly ever seem to have one idea: pitch your campaign to the political center. In 2024, this means trying to win over what…
As artificial intelligence agents become more advanced, it could become increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-powered users and real humans on the internet. In a new white paper, researchers from MIT, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other tech companies and academic institutions propose the use of personhood credentials, a verification technique that enables someone to prove they are a real human online, while preserving their privacy.MIT News spoke with two co-authors of the paper, Nouran Soliman, an electrical engineering and computer science graduate student, and Tobin South, a graduate student in the Media Lab, about the need for such credentials, the risks…
âPhishing using HTTPS is not completely new,â Krishna Vishnubhotla, vice President for product strategy at Zimperium. âLast yearâs report revealed that, between 2021 and 2022, the percentage of phishing sites targeting mobile devices increased from 75% to 80%. Some of them were already using HTTPS but the focus was converting campaigns to target mobile.â âThis year, we are seeing a meteoric rise in this tactic for mobile devices, which is a sign of maturing tactics on mobile, and it makes sense. The mobile form factor is conducive to deceiving the user because we rarely see the URL in the browser…