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Ransomware attacks – in which hackers lock up computer networks and/or threaten to leak stolen data – have become a global epidemic, said A.J. Vicens in Mother Jones. The cybersecurity group Emsisoft estimates that more than $18.6bn was paid in ransoms in 2020, and that at least 2,354 US-based government, healthcare and education institutions faced some level of ransomware attack last year. The real number is no doubt higher, as some companies prefer not to reveal they’ve been targeted. A...

A decade ago I submitted to the famed Oxford English Dictionary the word, "Pandeism," with about a half-dozen references to writings using the...

A decade ago I submitted to the famed Oxford English Dictionary the word, "Pandeism," with about a half-dozen references to writings using the...

Without a trade strategy, Biden can’t win the contest with China Chinas president, Xi Jinping, gives an online speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on April 20, 2021. Photo via Kyodo and Reuters. The biggest hole in the Biden administration’s otherwise encouraging efforts to better compete with China—a void that could undermine all the other pieces—is the lack of an international trade strategy. While President Xi Jinping’s China accelerates his efforts to negotiate multilateral and bila...

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everests North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britains finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepa...

END OF YEAR REVIEW: The best books from 2020  | Updated: 12:55, 07 January 2021 Stratford Literary Festival (SLF) folk and other local reading enthusiasts share their favourite reads from Gill Sutherland (43827353) Wine Girl by Victoria James made very interesting if dangerous reading. Subtitled “A sommelier’s tale of making it in the toxic world of fine dining”, James gives amazing insight into what goes on behind the scenes in fancy restaurants. Her love of wine is contagiou...

The pop culture that got us through 2020 In 2020, we leaned on pop culture more than ever for moments of levity, distraction — and sometimes even clarity — during a chaotic year. Looking back, here are some of the pop culture moments that stuck with us. Listen to the story. People in their cars and on outdoor chairs watch the movie "Tolo Tolo" July 9, 2020, at the Paolo Ferrari drive-in cinema in Ostia, on the Romes seaside. The drive-in cinema opened during the summer with social dis...

Off Again, Gorgeous Day: One man’s impossible mission to climb Mount Everest Ed Caesar’s new book, The Moth and the Mountain, is an engrossing and probing account of British mountaineer and aviator Maurice Wilson, who is known for his ill-fated attempt to climb Mount Everest alone in 1934. December 20, 2020 / 07:24 AM IST What makes a person give up everything to chase a daunting dream? Rash self-confidence, the desire to go down in history, being driven by an idea larger than oneself, o...

The world’s parcel delivery services are slammed beyond capacity, but it’s not too late to give the gift of knowledge this holiday season. Just call up a local bookstore near your giftee’s address and have them put aside a copy of one of the books below. Or better yet, order a few for yourself. This winter, more than any other, is the right time to curl up on the sofa next to a big stack of books and stay the heck inside (other than during your daily workout or adventure, of course). The ...

IN 2011 Ed Caesar read a paragraph about a Yorkshireman who, in the 1930s, decided to mount an ambitious expedition to climb Mount Everest. The man planned to fly a plane from London to the lower slopes of the mountain and walk the rest of the way to the summit - despite having no flying or mountaineering experience. When news of his outlandish scheme became public he was forbidden from carrying it out, but defied authority and embarked on a mammoth trek, flying thousands of miles, walkin...