WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Nearly two decades ago, my local newspaper at the time, Newsday, ran a front-page story in its Money & Careers section titled “A Domain Name Is Born.” The article spotlighted a fascinating emerging trend: forward-thinking parents reserving web addresses for their newborns - sometimes before the child was even born. I snapped a photo of the front cover back in 2007, struck by how the digital world was starting to influence even baby names. I grabbed … [Read more...]
Experts: 23andMe Hack Is DNA Catastrophe; Leaked Millions of Genetic Profiles
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Earlier this week, in a startling revelation, 23andMe conceded that a hack in October was significantly worse than initially reported. Affecting nearly 6.9 million people, the scale of this data breach was shockingly larger than the initially stated figure of 14,000 users. Regrettably, the stolen data contained not only sensitive information such as full names, but genetic profiles. Yet, the severity of the situation was met with indifference by some … [Read more...]
Surgeon General Upset Young People Not Visiting “SurgeonGeneral.com” – Parked
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coronavirus outbreak is nothing to joke about, so this short article is not intended to embarrass or make fun of the fact that the web address was misspoken; it is to point out that it keeps happening, and that even younger people continue to just assume that their website is a dot com, just on basic instinct. This morning, I was surprised to hear during a breaking news video on the TODAY show, that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, told … [Read more...]