Hal Triedman News Today

From using open-source encryption software to registering as South Dakota nomads, some privacy zealots go to great lengths to delete their “digital doubles.” Privacy engineer and writer Hal Triedman explains.

A team of Brown journalism and computer science students produced a series of stories, some published and broadcast by prominent outlets, providing new insights into the Ocean State’s opioid epidemic and its human toll.

In spite of a crackdown on prescription opioids that began during the Obama administration and ramped up during the Trump administration, the U.S. saw a record number of opioid-related fatalities during the pandemic. Providence was not immune.

Rhodes Technologies and Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, subsidiaries of Purdue Pharma, produced pills and raw opioid ingredients out of a factory complex in Coventry.