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1 Covid is omitted from death certificates in China
Medical professionals are under pressure to cite other causes of death. (FT$)
+ China cracks down on ‘dark feelings’ related to covid. (The Guardian)
+ There has been a huge jump in covid hospitalizations. (Reuters)
+ The right combination of drugs could help treat the long covid. (Atlantic $)

2 The US Supreme Court ponders the future of the internet
He is set to reconsider whether web platforms are legally responsible for content. (NYT$)
+ The companies’ existing legal protections are unpopular among tech critics from both major U.S. political parties. (FT$)

3 Google cuts 12,000 jobs
The CEO says he wants to focus more on AI. (The edge)
+ ChatGPT makes him nervous enough to call the big guns. (NYT$)
+ The right and very wrong ways to use ChatGPT. (WP$)

4 Sophisticated advertising scam attacked 11 million phones
It is one of the most important and complicated schemes ever discovered. (Wired $)

5 Twitter Is Being Sued By The Experts It Hired To Force Elon Musk To Buy It
The consultancy wants Twitter to shell out $2 million. ($Bloomberg)
+ Elon Musk could appear in court today in a separate legal challenge. (The Guardian)

6 The weather forecast has a hype problem
Weather forecasting startups tend to over-promise and under-deliver. (WP$)

7 Should we think twice before studying ancient DNA?
Extracting DNA from the long dead is an ethical quagmire. (Knowing Magazine)
+ DNA that has been frozen for 2 million years has been sequenced. (MIT Technology Review)

8 It’s Hard To Grasp Just How Massive The Universe Is
But the work of Henrietta Leavitt gave us a yardstick by which to measure it. (voice)
+ NASA’s return to the moon is off to a good start. (MIT Technology Review)

9 Make way for child prodigies podcast hosts
A host started his own show just seven years. (The Guardian)

10 Don’t let this cute dog photo fool you
Toxic ideas can be easily masked behind images of animals online. (Slate $)

quote of the day

“It’s the same criminals, they’re just repainting their getaway cars.”

—Bill Siegel, CEO and co-founder of cyber-extortion response firm Coveware, reflects on how a central group of hackers is behind the vast majority of ransomware attacks, reports Bloomberg.

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