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mmm The 2017 Trustwave Global Security Report

https://www2.trustwave.com/CPN-2017-06-GSR_GSR-Success-Page.html?aliId=176633756 An increasingly common mindset in the cybersecurity eld often is summed up with the phrase assume breach. In other words, rather than focusing your e orts on keeping criminals out of your network, it’s better to assume they will eventually breach through your defenses or may already be in your network. Therefore, it’s more important to concentrate on quickly identifying intruders and limiting the damage they can do. While that sounds pessimistic, it’s also realistic. If you manage an internet-facing infrastructure of just about any size, a cybercriminal will attack and probably will breach your systems. 
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mmm Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 Nic Newman with Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

mmm   Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 Nic Newman with Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen  This year’s report comes amid intense soul-searching in the news industry about fake news, failing business models, and the power of platforms. And yet our research casts new and surprising light on some of the prevailing narratives around these issues. The internet and social media may have exacerbated low trust and ‘fake news’, but we nd that in many countries the underlying drivers of mistrust are as much to do with deep-rooted political polarisation and perceived mainstream media bias. Echochambersand lterbubblesareundoubtedlyrealfor some, but we also nd that – on average – users of social media, aggregators, and search engines experience more diversity than non-users. Thoughtheeconomicoutlookformos...
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mmm 2017 Report Global Nutrition Report

2017 Report A better nourished world is a better world. Yet the 2017 Global Nutrition Report shows that, despite the significant steps the world has taken towards improving nutrition and associated health burdens over recent decades, nutrition is still a large-scale and universal problem. Too many people are being left behind from the benefits of improved nutrition. Yet when we look at the wider context, the opportunity for change has never been greater. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by 193 countries in 2015, offer a tremendous window of opportunity to reverse or stop these trends.
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mmm Annual Report 2017

Annual Report 2017 FULL REPORT (  view  |  download  ) [6.53 MB] Section 1: About IFC (  view  |  download  )  [1.4 MB] Section 2: Year in Review (  view  |  download  )  [665 KB] Section 3: Private Sector Impact (  view  |  download  )  [3.7 MB] Section 4: Measuring Up (  view  |  download  )  [47 KB] Section 5: Our Expertise (  view  |  download  ) [172 KB] Section 6: Our People and Practices (  view  |  download  ) [286 KB] Section 7: Financial Summary (  view  |  download  ) [97 KB] Vol 2 Financials (  view  |  download  ) [2.34 MB]
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READING LIST FOOTBAL

Reading: The Guardian https://lnkd.in/gF_-zPz The Independent https://lnkd.in/gPDAVME Four Four Two https://lnkd.in/gC-yyUP Football 365 https://lnkd.in/g8KGAAi Football Paradise https://lnkd.in/gGMhFNW Tifo Football https://lnkd.in/g8Ca-wN ESDF Analysis https://lnkd.in/gt3xMYS These Football Times https://lnkd.in/g6X__bf InBedWithMaradona https://lnkd.in/gHiceS5 Goal http://www.goal.com When Saturday Comes http://www.wsc.co.uk/ Listening: Football Writers Podcast https://lnkd.in/gstKnZu The Game Podcast https://lnkd.in/gys-3PG Sunday Supplement https://lnkd.in/g8Hj5cn La Liga Weekly  https://lnkd.in/g_sHNBy On the Sporting Couch https://lnkd.in/g9QBK-6 Inside Football https://lnkd.in/g2KgAmN The Spanish Football Podcast https://lnkd.in/gAPp8D2 European Football Show https://lnkd.in/gifBdfe Guardian Football Weekly https://lnkd.in/gvFX2pQ 5-Live World Football Phone-in https://lnkd.in/ggPqbYk World Football Index ...
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The World Economic Forum's 2018 Global Risks Report suggest climate change, natural disasters, and cybersecurity are humanity's biggest threats — Quartz

The World Economic Forum's 2018 Global Risks Report suggest climate change, natural disasters, and cybersecurity are humanity's biggest threats — Quartz : Every year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) asks its community of experts what keeps them up at night. Their answer is a collage of our greatest fears. For the year ahead, environmental risks top the list, climate foremost among them, alongside cybersecurity, in the wake of massive corporate data breaches, as well as election meddling and cyber-sabotage around the world.
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[1801.01239] How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks

[1801.01239] How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks James Owen Weatherall In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the "tobacco strategy", which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy makers regarding the health risks of tobacco products. The strategy involved two parts, consisting of (1) promoting and sharing independent research supporting the industry's preferred position and (2) funding additional research, but selectively publishing the results. We introduce a model of the Tobacco Strategy, and use it to argue that both prongs of the strategy can be extremely effective--even when policy makers rationally update on all evidence available to them. As we elaborate, this model helps illustrate the conditions under which the Tobacco Strategy is particularly successful. In addition, we show how journalists engaged in "fair" r...
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Democrats Blink in Shutdown Impasse, Hoping for a Bargain - The New York Times

Democrats Blink in Shutdown Impasse, Hoping for a Bargain - The New York Times : But over the course of the weekend, Democrats increasingly came to realize they had maneuvered themselves into a difficult position that made many of the party’s moderate senators uncomfortable. Republicans were not distancing themselves from the president despite his erratic swings on immigration policy. And while the Dreamers may be a highly sympathetic group, using them as a rationale for shuttering the federal government was not playing well. The president, top Republicans and their allies had some success in framing the showdown as a case of Democrats putting the interests of “illegal immigrants” ahead of American citizens, a line of attack Democrats felt they could not weather.
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We Might Need To Redefine 'Planet' Again | Gizmodo Australia

We Might Need To Redefine 'Planet' Again | Gizmodo Australia : At present, there's confusion regarding whether the biggest planets really are planets, or whether they're actually ultra-light stars. The working border set by the IAU is that a star should be massive enough for heavy hydrogen, called deuterium, to undergo nuclear fusion. That's around 13 times the mass of Jupiter. But researcher Kevin Schlaufman from Johns Hopkins points out that this isn't a clear cutoff point - and sometimes objects smaller than that definition just float around on their own, not orbiting any star as a typical planet would. He suggests there's a better way to define maximum planet size, and proposes an update to the definition based on how planets form. "Objects more massive than [around 10 times the mass of Jupiter] should not be thought of as planets," he writes in the study, which is slated for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
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A Russian Went Inside A Chinese Click-Farm: This Is What He Found | Zero Hedge

A Russian Went Inside A Chinese Click-Farm: This Is What He Found | Zero Hedge : As we concluded previously, the bottom line is simple: "The illusion of a massive following is often just that," said Tony Harris, who does social media marketing for major Hollywood movie firms, said he would love to be able to give his clients massive numbers of Twitter followers and Facebook fans, but buying them from random strangers is not very effective or ethical. And once the prevailing users of social networks grasp that one of the main driving features of the current social networking fad du jour is nothing but a big cash scam operating out of a basement in the far east, expect both Facebook and shortly thereafter, Twitter, to go the way of 6 Degrees, Friendster and MySpace, only this time the bagholders will be the public. Because "it is never different this time." The only certain thing: someone will promptly step in to replace any social network that quietly fades into the ...
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Transfer (association football) - Wikipedia

Transfer (association football) - Wikipedia : 2014: Co-ownership ends[edit] In May 2014, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) announced it would be ending co-ownership of players to bring Serie A in line with the other European leagues.[138][139]
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Taliban claims responsibility for Benazir Bhutto's murder

Taliban claims responsibility for Benazir Bhutto's murder https://goo.gl/7jMhne -via inshorts Igor Masnjak igormasnjak@me.com +41 79 328 39 05 Rue de l'Epondaz 17 St-Prex  1162 Switzerland
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The CES secret few talk about: Past hits can fizzle with consumers

The CES secret few talk about: Past hits can fizzle with consumers : The most popular tech products of 2017 were not introduced nor shown at CES. Those included the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 phones, Amazon’s Echo Dot speaker, the Apple Watch and the Nintendo Switch, which were all debuted at their own, private, company media events.
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Central banks are preparing for the next crash. Sadly nobody else is

Central banks are preparing for the next crash. Sadly nobody else is : The underlying argument of the report is that “near-term risks to financial stability continue to decline”, but “medium-term vulnerabilities are rising”. The return of global economic growth, combined with comfortable monetary and financial conditions, together with sluggish inflation, strengthens investors’ reach for yield and appetite for risk. With market and credit risk premiums at decade-low levels, asset valuations are vulnerable to a “decompression” of risk premiums - in blunter words, a crash.
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The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos | WIRED

The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos | WIRED : At the time, he was working at a Colorado-based tech company called Loronix. The video was shot at Loronix, and the computer he smashed belonged to the company, but he wasn’t a frustrated cubicle drone. Loronix was actually a fun place to work, the kind of tech startup where coworkers stay late to play Quake online over the company’s coveted T1 line. They weren’t usually going full barbarian-horde on their office equipment. But Loronix was developing DVR technology for security-camera systems and needed sample footage to demonstrate to potential clients how it worked. So Licciardi and his boss, chief technology officer Peter Jankowski, got an analog video camera and began shooting. They filmed Licciardi using an ATM and pretended to catch him robbing the company’s warehouse. Licciardi decided he wanted to be a “disgruntled employee,” which gave his boss an idea. “It was pretty ad hoc,” Jankowski says. “W...
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Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? - MIT Technology Review

Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? - MIT Technology Review : The Mobile Phone Was Truly Global How rapid is the spread of smart phones globally? For the rest of the world, historical adoption rates of technologies such as TV, radio, and the Internet aren’t as generally available. Further, in many regions, like Africa, smart phones are a recent phenomenon. That makes comparisons difficult. However, the unprecedented spread of simpler “feature” models of mobile phones in the developing world appears to put smart phones on a global fast track.
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Karl Hartig: Data Visualization

Karl Hartig: Data Visualization : Business Cycles The charts illustrate data from 1960 to 1996 for five economic indicators reflecting cycles in business and the economy. Dow Jones Industrial Average Real Gross Domestic Product Consumer Price Index Unemployment Rate Federal Funds Rate
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TUNING IN: Communications technologies historically have had broad appeal for consumers

I F YOU LOOK AT the history of tech- “But I guess I see it as a gradual, Chicago station WGN broadcast from the In the early 1950s, color television times faster in performing calculations In the 1980s, other products such as the Apple Macintosh, CD-ROM, the laptop computer and Windows software helped to revolutionize the industry, making com- puters easier to operate and more conve- nient for personal use. By 1998, about 43% of U.S. homes had computers — and access to the Internet suddenly seemed to be the thing every- body had to have. Household penetration of the Internet stood at 24%, well below the level many people believe it eventual- ly will reach. Other hot products in 1998 were the pager, with penetration of 31%, up from 1% in 1993, and the cellular phone, which rose to 48% from 1% in 1987. nology, said high-tech guru George Forrester Colony in 1995, “there is a threshold where one day, you h...
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Designing with Data: Nicholas Felton | Create

Designing with Data: Nicholas Felton | Create : Nicholas Felton is an icon in the world of data visualization and an information-design expert. He has spoken at countless conferences, he co-designed Facebook’s Timeline, and in 2011 Fast Company named him of the 50 most influential designers in the United States.
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LCD Soundsystem Is Even Older | The New Yorker

LCD Soundsystem Is Even Older | The New Yorker : Murphy had peculiar, wide-ranging tastes at a time when amassing a huge, eclectic record collection indicated a compulsive, cooler-than-thou personality. But he also understood that putting together unlikely things could produce interesting emotional friction. He tinkered with dance music’s maximalist tendencies, pairing huge, community-moving beats with introspective, almost twee lyrics. And his intense, theatrical sense of self-awareness short-circuited criticisms that his music was unoriginal—that seemed to be the point.
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