The Growing Problem of Ransomware
Taking money, time, and even lives, hackers are actively targeting universities
Kent Anderson
Cooking Up a Conspiracy About Security
A recent SNSI webinar is used to spin up a conspiracy theory about publishers
Atlas + Hoover + Stanford = A Mess
A libertarian think-tank + a Silicon Valley university. What could possibly go wrong?
Energizing a Storm of Extremism
Parler is a more extreme platform, utilizing medRxiv amid persistent whiffs of Russia
Top Articles from October
PLOS' CAP model, Projekt DEAL, Research Square, and an FBI warning, for starters
Interview: Josh Nicholson of Scite
Scite's founder about making an idea a core part of scholarly communication
Looking Ahead — Technology in 2021
Apple enters search? Twitter changes CEOs? Consumers embrace safety?
The Alt-Right Is Exploiting Preprints
Preprints appear to systemically fuel conspiracies on the right, but not elsewhere
QAnon — A Game Playing People
Game dynamics are being leveraged to draw people into Q's alternate reality
Is China Already Broken?
Its economic rise has stalled, and the nation seems to be hurting itself