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Tech execs: “3 in 4 say that recent layoffs, and the future risk of AI replacing their roles, have negatively affected their health.” [PDF] - while there’s a call to rethink psychedelics.

• Infra: Olsztyn, Polan, a city under cyberattack. French law 2030-2040 defense budget - and cyberdefense. Retroengineering the STINGER and its supply chain - a lost knowledge. US incentives for cybersecurity in energy. CASCADES, for mapping cascading climate risks. Satellite “sandboxes” for cybersecurity.

• People: The letter circle. GenZ financial behavior. Orcas culture of sinking boats is spreading. Lawyers targeted by hackers. Vatican AI Ethics handbook. Automating being human (Mech Turks & AI). Darpa and bloodstream infections.

• Econ: Doordash goes to hourly wages. Entertainment and media slowing down, a lot. North Korea revenue from hacking. Domino Pizza finds its clients anywhere. Deep sea mining. Failure of the Metaverse.

• Tech: Cybersecurity for employees. French advice against DNS blocking. How to do great work. Tokenized assets? Quantum light? Another open-source maintainer impacted by lack of funds (libjpeg-turbo). Hackers and law firms. Barcodes in aviation. Worldcoin Orb has been hacked. Furries strike again.

• AI: Self-healing code. AI and elections. Cryptography and AI. ChatGPT against telemarketers and scammers. Is AI making white-collar jobs obsolete ? Remaining relevant then.

• Futures: Hiberfolks. TED-Ed (with EC) Futures Forward course. Using SciFi to write the future.

• DIY: LLM to help building ontologies. AI agents and knowledge base. Finetuning your LLM.