Notices by Gᴇʀᴀʀᴅ Bᴀʀʀʏ (gtbarry@mastodon.social)

DNA firm holding highly sensitive data 'vanishes' without warning

A DNA-testing firm appears to have ceased trading - without telling its customers what has happened to the highly sensitive data they shared with it.

Atlas Biomed users are no longer able to access their personalised reports online and the company has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.

#AtlasBiomed #DNA #genetics #privacy #biotech #business #data #bigdata #technology #tech

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7wl7rpndjo

Teenagers Tell Us About Their Relationship With News

how and why media — online, in print, and on TV — treats news as a product, and how that shapes the way they think and feel. Some said that made them not want to be informed, but many others shared their strategies for navigating the noise

#teenagers #news #journalism #socialmedia #media #MediaLiteracy #LateralReading #technology #tech

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/learning/teenagers-tell-us-about-their-relationship-with-news.html

Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023

Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption

#CTIA #data #mobiledata #smartphone #phone #mobilephone #5G #technology #tech

https://www.reuters.com/technology/americans-used-record-100-trillion-megabytes-wireless-data-2023-2024-09-10/

‘Leadership’s something you got to train’: Inside Oregon football’s leadership retreat

“What I wanted these guys to understand is leadership comes in a lot of different forms. You have your own natural leadership strengths, but if all you ever do is lean into or rely on those strengths, you’re probably missing a huge part of leadership.”

#leadership #management #business #football #sports #OregonDucks #GoDucks

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2024/08/leaderships-something-you-got-to-train-inside-oregon-footballs-leadership-retreat.html

The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore

Every day, 3 trillion dollars worth of transactions are handled by a 64-year-old programming language hardly anybody knows anymore.

It's called COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), and despite the fact most schools and universities stopped teaching it decades ago, it remains one of the top #mainframe programming languages used today

#COBOL #software #coding #computers #computing #technology #tech

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson

Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost

By late October, the devastation of so many halted productions was rippling through the release calendar, threatening to upend an entire season of broadcast television and the whole 2024 movie-release schedule.

The unions’ victory was unambiguous, and also established bulwarks to build upon in future negotiation.

#hollywood #entertainment #SagAftra #AMPTP #hollywood #labor #strike #union

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/11/hollywoods-dual-strike-is-over-and-the-studios-lost/675951/