An interview with Peter Daszak, an animal disease specialist, just after his return from an investigative research mission to Wuhan, the site of the original Covid outbreak, and surrounding areas. A team of experts selected by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the …
Read More »David Katzenstein, AIDS Researcher With Focus on Africa, Dies at 69
He honed methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and made them accessible to underserved populations in sub-Sahara Africa. He died of Covid-19. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Dr. David Katzenstein may have been a dreamer, …
Read More »Researcher reveals Mac privacy bug, blasts Apple for ‘security theater’
When Apple announced its Security Bounty Program last year, researchers lined up to locate potentially dangerous bugs in the company’s platforms, keeping them secret in exchange for potentially large payouts. But after developer Jeff Johnson told Apple about a zero-day exploit that gives malicious actors access to a Safari user’s private …
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