The C-Suite Is Becoming Obsolete: What Should Replace It?

With AI advancements upending the role of senior executives, the question is what the C-suite transformation should look like ...
The Lancet

Prevalence and incidence of chronic kidney diseases in Hong Kong: a 12-year territory-wide retrospective cohort study

The deceleration in CKD prevalence growth after 2012, along with the declining incidence trends may reflect the impact of the ...

Woman wins $154,168 after using same lottery numbers for six years

A North Carolina woman learned the value of persistence when playing the same set of lottery numbers for six years resulted ...
The Assembly NC

A Genius Among Us

Nabarun Dasgupta, a senior scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and expert on fatal drug overdoses, was awarded a 2025 MacArthur ...

FEATURE U.S. renters fall foul of algorithms in search for a home

Candice's latest rejection email for a housing rental in Washington D.C. looked much like all her others - a generic response ...
TidBITS

Canva’s Affinity Combines Photo, Designer, and Publisher into One Free App

The new Affinity app from Canva replaces Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher, which already shared most of their core code. It’s free to use, requires a Canva account, and ...
Sporting News

What do Wales need to qualify for World Cup 2026? Permutations, results required for FIFA finals

With three matches left in the 2026 World Cup UEFA qualifying cycle, Wales find themselves in a promising yet complicated position in a highly competitive Group J. Craig Bellamy's side sit third in ...
The New York Times

L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities

As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections. By Charlie Savage Reporting from Washington, D.C. A ...
The Washington Post

National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties

The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Software Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way ...
New Scientist

The real reason why we lost the ability to make vitamin C

According to the textbooks, we lost the ability to make vitamin C because our diet meant that we didn’t need it. But studies in animals suggest losing this ability actually helped our ancestors fight ...
IEEE

Quantum Key-Recovery Attacks on Permutation-Based Pseudorandom Functions

Abstract: Due to their simple security assessments, permutation-based pseudo-random functions (PRFs) have become widely used in cryptography. It has been shown that PRFs using a single n-bit ...