Why Google, Bing and other search engines’ embrace of generative AI threatens $68 billion SEO industry
Ravi Sen, Texas A&M University - Google, Microsoft and others boast that generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT will make searching the internet better than ever for users. For example, rather than having...
In China, Albanese might find an economy as uncertain as Japan’s 30 years ago
Tim Harcourt, University of Technology Sydney - When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits China later this year he will encounter a nation whose future is about as uncertain as it was 50 years...
Severe Vulnerabilities Discovered in Software to Protect Internet Routing
Frankfurt and Darmstadt (ots) - A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). RPKI is an Internet standard meant to protect Internet traffic from being hijacked by hackers. By now, all affected vendors provided patches for their products. The vulnerabilities could have had devastating consequences: Internet hijacks have already been exploited, e.g., for phishing passwords and other sensitive information, tricking certificate authorities into issuing fraudulent Web certificates, stealing cryptocurrency, distributing malware, and poisoning caches of DNS servers. The ATHENE team consisting of Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann and...
Small farms take centre stage in European push to bolster local food trade
Amid international supply-chain disruptions, the EU is stepping up efforts to ensure the European food system benefits family farmers, Europe’s regions and its consumers. By...
Is the US banking crisis over?
George Kladakis, Edinburgh Napier University and Alexandros Skouralis, City, University of London - The US banking crisis triggered worries about the global banking system earlier in the year. Three...
How to go carbon neutral: Lessons from a Danish island
When fish stocks crashed in the Baltic in the late 1990s, the islanders of Bornholm, Denmark, realised they had to reinvent themselves. Their rocky outcrop, some 200km east of Copenhagen, had been in decline for years. Its 40,000-plus inhabitants needed a new path, and they chose to pursue sustainability. By AISLING IRWIN Now they are more prosperous – but they have...
China’s capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite
Dylan Sullivan, Macquarie University; Jason Hickel, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Michail Moatsos, Maastricht University It has become an article of faith among many economists that China’s pro-market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s...
Recycling tyres and plastics with an ancient heating method
Thermal decomposition is helping to green two major EU manufacturing industries. By Michael Allen - For thousands of years, humans...
