The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of 281 suspects in connection with email scams and wire transfer fraud. The action is the biggest of its kind yet against this type of digital scammer, and is a strong symbol of law enforcement’s sense of urgency in trying to contain a rapidly growing threat. Wired reports: You’re familiar with crimes like…
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Robocalls Are Overwhelming Hospitals and Patients, Threatening a New Kind of Health Crisis
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the heart of Boston, Tufts Medical Center treats scores of health conditions, from administering measles vaccines for children to pioneering next-generation tools that can eradicate the rarest of cancers. But doctors, administrators and other hospital staff struggled to contain a much different kind of epidemic one April morning last year: a wave of thousands…
Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969)
Millions of kids grew up with the groovy yet educational cartoon comedy of Fat Albert, and millions of adults may find it difficult or impossible now to watch the show without thinking of the crimes of its creator. Such is life in the 21st century, but so it was too at the end of the […]
Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the…