2024 Archives - LIEFFIE https://lieffie.com/tag/2024/ Digital News and Development Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:52:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://lieffie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-to-help-ais-understand-the-world-researchers-put-them-in-a-robot-32x32.jpg 2024 Archives - LIEFFIE https://lieffie.com/tag/2024/ 32 32 H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain https://lieffie.com/digital-news/h5n1-bird-flu-spills-over-again-nevada-cows-hit-with-different-deadly-strain/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:52:47 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/h5n1-bird-flu-spills-over-again-nevada-cows-hit-with-different-deadly-strain/ The spread of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cows is unprecedented; the US outbreak is the first of its kind in cows. Virologists...

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]]> It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite https://lieffie.com/digital-news/it-seems-the-faa-office-overseeing-spacexs-starship-probe-still-has-some-bite/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:05:12 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/it-seems-the-faa-office-overseeing-spacexs-starship-probe-still-has-some-bite/ These actions followed pre-established protocols. However, it highlighted the small but non-zero risk of rocket debris falling to Earth after a launch failure....

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]]> Bogus research is undermining good science, slowing lifesaving research https://lieffie.com/digital-news/bogus-research-is-undermining-good-science-slowing-lifesaving-research/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:23:50 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/bogus-research-is-undermining-good-science-slowing-lifesaving-research/ In 2022, Byrne and colleagues, including two of us, found that suspect genetics research, despite not immediately affecting patient care, informs scientists’ work,...

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]]> 3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead https://lieffie.com/digital-news/3d-printed-ghost-gun-ring-comes-to-my-community-and-leaves-a-man-dead/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:05:46 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/3d-printed-ghost-gun-ring-comes-to-my-community-and-leaves-a-man-dead/ It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief...

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]]> WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/who-starts-cutting-costs-as-us-withdrawal-date-set-for-january-2026/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:27:39 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/who-starts-cutting-costs-as-us-withdrawal-date-set-for-january-2026/ “Just stupid” On January 23, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sent a memo to staff announcing the cost-cutting measures. Reuters obtained a copy...

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]]> Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom https://lieffie.com/digital-news/tech-worker-movements-grow-as-threats-of-rto-ai-loom/ Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/tech-worker-movements-grow-as-threats-of-rto-ai-loom/ It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation,...

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