Tuesday, January 9, 2018

3 Out Of 5 People Who Try Cigarettes Become 'Daily Smokers'

At least three out of five people who start smoking go on to become daily smokers, a pioneering study has found.
 The data of more than 215,000 people, analysed by Queen Mary University of London, found at least 60.9% of people who try smoking repeat the habit daily, at least temporarily.
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YouTube's 'Open Letter' About Logan Paul Isn't Very Open At All

YouTube’s corporate communications team doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of the words “open letter.”


On Tuesday, the video platform released a Twitter thread that it claimed was “an open letter to our community.”


The “open letter” thread appeared to be a response to the recent...

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Public-Private Partnerships Must Survive This Attack On The Public Sector

We are not even a year into the Trump administration, but its reflexive and unthinking attack on the government it supposed to be running is well underway. Inconvenient but life-saving regulations are being eliminated, environmental rules are relaxed or unenforced, key positions are left...

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Brickbat: Banned in Germany - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Zerbor / Dreamstime.comThe German government will start enforcing a law requiring social media site to remove hate speech and fake news. Companies will have 24 hours after being alerted to remove material that obviously violates the law and a week to remove material if there is some question...

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Monday, January 8, 2018

Phishing For Dummies: A How-To Guide 01/05/2018

Tired of the work that goes into being a legitimate email marketer? Phishing is easy and fun, judging by a new report from the threat research lab Comodo.We’re sure Comodo didn’t
intend to offer a step-by-step guide on how to phish. But in essence, that is what we have here.
“You can buy...

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Sunday, January 7, 2018

Laura Dern Calls Out A Culture Of Silencing Victims In Golden Globes Speech

Laura Dern won a Golden Globe on Sunday (7 January) for her role as Renata Klein in ‘Big Little Lies’, and used her moment in front of the microphone to ask those watching to help combat a “culture of silencing” victims. 



“Many...

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