Month: March 2021

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Can’t take a hike: more economic turmoil in Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just does not like interest-rate rises. So he has again sacked a central-bank governor given to imposing them—again, to his own peril. America’s love of free markets extends also to the business of sperm donation; our correspondent discusses the risks that come with so little regulation. And the opera composer who is shaking up stereotypes.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Did Shakespeare Write the Works of Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare is widely considered one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of the English language. However, over the last two centuries many people have begun to wonder if William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon, England was indeed the person who wrote the works which have been attributed to him. If you look at the evidence or the lack thereof, they aren’t necessarily crazy for thinking it.

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The Best One Yet - 🎮 “Ready Gamer One” — GameStop’s earnings. GoPuff’s $9B bodega. Hipster antitrust.

For the 1st time since January’s GameStop stock pop, we actually got GameStop’s earnings report. GoPuff hits a $9B valuation for bringing the bodega to you. And Lina Kahn is bringing the “hipster antitrust movement” to the 4 tech companies you use most. $GME $AMZN $GOOG $AAPL $DASH Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Migrant Families Are Still Being Separated

After four years of President Trump’s harsh immigration policies, many advocates for Central American migrants welcomed a change in administration. But after two months in office, President Biden has given a clear message to people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border: “don’t come.” Still, thousands of people, including an increasing number of unaccompanied children, are making the trek and forcing Biden to face his first big immigration test.


Guest: Adolfo Flores, national security for immigration correspondent at Buzzfeed.


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Short Wave - Meet The ‘Glacier Mice’

(Encore episode.) In 2006, while hiking around the Root Glacier in Alaska, glaciologist Tim Bartholomaus encountered something strange and unexpected on the ice — dozens of fuzzy, green moss balls. It turns out, other glaciologists had come across glacial moss balls before and lovingly called them "glacier mice."

NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce and Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong talk about glacial moss balls and delve into the mystery of how they seem to move as a herd.

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NBN Book of the Day - Sean R. Roberts, “The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority” (Princeton UP, 2020)

There are currently eleven million Uyghurs living in China, but more than one million are being held in so-called reeducation camps. A cultural genocide is taking place under the guise of counterterrorism. 

In this profound and explosive book, Sean Roberts shows how China is using the US-led global war on terror to erase and replace Uyghur culture and persecute this ethnic minority in what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world. In The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority, Roberts contextualises these harms in the PRC's colonial legacy of the region. He demonstrates how the Chinese government was able to brand Uyghur dissent as a dangerous terrorist threat which had links with al-Qaeda. He argues that a nominal militant threat was a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'; the limited response to more than a decade of harsh repression and surveillance. 

This is the humanitarian catastrophe that the world needs to know about now. Beyond the destruction of Uyghur identity and culture, there are profound implications for the global community by this cultural genocide. 

Dr. Sean R. Roberts is an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, International Development Studies Program at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

He is is a cultural anthropologist with extensive applied experience in international development work. Roberts conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Uyghur people of Central Asia and China during the 1990s, and has published extensively on this community in scholarly journals and collected volumes. In 1996 he produced a documentary film on the community entitled Waiting for Uighurstan. You can find him on twitter at @robertsreport 

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - How COVID and HIV/AIDS Can Help Us Get Ready For (or Avoid) the Next Pandemic

Dr. Bob calls up AIDS researcher Carlos del Rio and longtime AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves to explore what the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the ‘80s and ‘90s can teach us about COVID-19 today. They discuss the politicization of both viruses, how the role of activism compares, and how the 30-plus-year quest for an HIV vaccine helped advance the COVID-19 vaccines. Plus, what HIV/AIDS can show us about what it means to return to “normal.”

 

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Security Unlocked - Identity Threats, Tokens, and Tacos

Every day there are literally billions of authentications across Microsoft – whether it’s someone checking their email, logging onto their Xbox, or hopping into a Teams call – and while there are tools like Multi-Factor Authentication in place to ensure the person behind the keyboard is the actual owner of the account, cyber-criminals can still manipulate systems. Catching one of these instances should be like catching the smallest needle in the largest haystack, but with the algorithms put into place by the Identity Security team at Microsoft, that haystack becomes much smaller, and that needle, much larger.

On today’s episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla invite back Maria Puertos Calvo, the Lead Data Scientist in Identity Security and Protection at Microsoft, to talk with us about how her team monitors such a massive scale of authentications on any given day. They also look deeper into Maria’s background and find out what got her into the field of security analytics and A.I. in the first place, and how her past in academia helped that trajectory.  


In this Episode You Will Learn:

  • How the Identity Security team uses AI to authenticate billions of logins across Microsoft
  • Why Fingerprints are fallible security tools
  • How machine learning infrastructure has changed over the past couple of decades at Microsoft


Some Questions that We Ask:

  • Is the sheer scale of authentications throughout Microsoft a dream come true or a nightmare for a data analyst?
  • Do today’s threat-detection models share common threads with the threat-detection of previous decades?
  • How does someone become Microsoft’s Lead Data Scientist for Identity Security and Protection?


Resources:

#IdentityJobs at Microsoft

Maria’s First Appearance on Security Unlocked, Tackling Identity Threats with A.I.

Maria’s Linkedin

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn


Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

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What A Day - Colorado Mourns Again

Boulder police have identified a suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting in Colorado, which killed 10 people. President Biden addressed the nation and called on Congress to not wait "another minute" before working to act gun control laws, including a ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines. 

An independent oversight board accused Astrazeneca of choosing data that was “most favorable” instead of the most updated and complete info. 

And in headlines: attacks on AAPI people continued in New York City in spite of protests, jurors selected for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, and Prince Harry scores his first 9-5 gig.

Show Links:

"Boulder shooting victims: Identifying the 10 lives lost"

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/23/boulder-shooting-victims/


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