The credit scores of millions of Americans were left exposed online when a lender misused an API belonging to the credit reporting agency Experian. As first reported by Krebs on Security, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi was shopping around for student loan vendors online when […]
Month: May 2021
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Hits Hard in Covid-Era America
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The Handmaid’s Tale’s gift is prescience. From Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book being a harbinger of the conservative politics of the Reagan era, […]
A Fund Cleans Up by Betting on Clean Energy
Barron's: World leaders just met on global warming. What does this mean for the sectors you cover? Lucas White: Political outcomes are notoriously …
Week’s Best: NFL Tight End Goes Deep … on Bitcoin
… base salary into Bitcoin. It's another example of the exploding enthusiasm for the cryptocurrency, which has gone on a stratospheric rally this year. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over
Tech companies in Silicon Valley, the geography, have had an incredible year. But one indicator points to longer-term changes. The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. A big new analysis by AngelList showed aggregate IRR […]
First lecture in new speaker series focuses on AI and machine learning AI & Surroundings
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are the topics of a lecture 10 a.m. to noon Friday, May 21, as part of the new Data Analytics Certificate Program Speaker Series at Youngstown State University. The lecture features Quentin Fisher, founder and chief technology officer of Health […]