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23andMe 'failed to take basic steps' to protect private information, investigation finds

DNA testing company 23andMe didn't have adequate data protections and ignored warning signs ahead of a massive data breach almost two years ago, an investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner found.

From the CBC News-2025-6-17:20:6:1


23andMe 'failed to take basic steps' to protect private information, investigation finds

DNA testing company 23andMe didn't have adequate data protections and ignored warning signs ahead of a massive data breach almost two years ago, an investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner found.

From the CBC News-2025-6-17:20:6:2


New species of dinosaur discovered that 'rewrites' T.rex family tree

The dinosaur skeletons, found hidden in a museum collection in Mongolia, is an ancestor of the mighty tyrannosaurs.

From the BBC News-2025-6-12:14:6:1


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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Jun 7).

Hierarchical Evolutionary-Development Theory: Towards a New Theory of Evolution, by Carlos Ochoa, from Springer Nature. (May 31).

Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transfrom our Lives, Work, and World, by Jamie Metzl, from Timer Press. (May 24).

Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution, by Ted Anton, from Columbia University Press. (May 17).


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Jun 18 20:00An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize - Regina A. , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Collective artificial intelligence and evolutionary dynamics - Udari Madhushani , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03European mammal turnover driven by a global rapid warming event preceding the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum - Rodolphe Tabuce, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Deep mechanism design: Learning social and economic policies for human benefit - Andrea Tacchetti, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Collective cooperative intelligence - Wolfram Barfuss, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Tabula rasa agents display emergent in-group behavior - Raphael Köster, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Humans program artificial delegates to accurately solve collective-risk dilemmas but lack precision - Inês Terrucha, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Unilateral incentive alignment in two-agent stochastic games - Alex Mc, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 17 16:03Picking strategies in games of cooperation - Julian García, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 16 14:03Impact of Phylogenetic Method Choice on Indel Analyses in HIV-1 Subtype B by Micka=EBl Seppey and others (GBE)
Jun 16 14:03Mitonuclear coevolution in bumblebees (Bombus): genomic signatures and its role in climatic niche adaptation by Leonardo Tresoldi Gon=E7alves and others (GBE)

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