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Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime | Scientific American #psychology #health #longread A new study published in Science Advances by Sacktor, Fenton and their colleagues plugs these holes. The research suggests that PKMzeta works alongside another molecule, called KIBRA (kidney and brain expressed adaptor

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Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious • The Register #internet In the past eight months, however, Google has lost two major US competition lawsuits: One brought by Epic Games over Google's grip on the Android ecosystem, the other brought by the Department of Justice over

Computer security is a political struggle #security #privacy #politics #longread Most of Western society now depends on digital technology. Yet we have a technology industry that is at war with its own customers. Much of our technology is broken, and it is broken by design. because this is profitable and

“What happens when that information is baked into large language models and the source of that information is not live on the web anymore?” --T.Cooper

An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut #literature #history #longread One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack. We had called Kurt, earlier; and asked to interview him, whereupon he said, “I’d rather interview Bob Caro.” Needless to say,

How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy | Smithsonian #privacy #copyrights #history Early photographers sold their snapshots to advertisers, who reused the individuals’ likenesses without their permission. In 1904, a widow named Elizabeth Peck had her portrait taken at a studio in

eHammurabi #history #law #longread The Law Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest legal texts from ancient Mesopotamia. The artifact, a basalt stele, is believed to have been created between c. 1792–1750 BCE. It was discovered by Jacques Jean Marie de Morgan's team around 1901 in