Websites shut down globally after AI finds cybersecurity flaw affecting 70% of the internet | CNN Business

October 23, 2026October 22, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70% of the world’s websites.

Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced Wednesday.

The US National Security Agency and Europe’s cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate action to address two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites.

‘We could not beat this description of gravity’: Lightest known pair of neutron stars proves Einstein right yet again | Live Science

October 22, 2026October 21, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Astronomers have discovered the lightest known pair of neutron stars — two ultradense stellar remnants that circle each other every 2 hours, 22 minutes, veering toward an inevitable collision about 82 million years from now. By timing radio pulses from one of the stars, the researchers detected three subtle effects predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and found that the theory describes the pair’s motion to within about 1% — proving the visionary physicist right yet again.

The researchers published their findings Sept. 15 in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars that exploded as supernovas. Each packs more mass than the Sun into a ball roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. Some, called pulsars, spin rapidly and sweep beams of radio waves across the sky like cosmic lighthouses. Their rotation is so steady that their pulses work as extraordinarily precise clocks.

Could ‘body clocks’ play a role in depression? Study proposes a new ‘circadian’ subtype | Live Science

October 22, 2026October 21, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Some people with depression sleep far more than average, wake up exhausted, habitually stay up late, and experience mood shifts with the seasons. A new study suggests that these symptoms may cluster in a distinct subtype of depression that’s tied to the body’s internal clock.

While research has long linked a scrambled circadian rhythm to a risk of mood disorders, neuroscientists are now proposing that these disruptions define a specific form of depression that they call “circadian depression.” First conceptualized in 2021, the body-clock subtype may affect about 1 in 4 people with severe, recurrent or persistent depression, the researchers estimate.

In their new study, published Wednesday (Oct. 21) in The British Journal of Psychiatry, the team identified the subtype in about 2,600 people out of over 11,000 evaluated.

How to Use Your College Alumni Network for Success | Business News Daily

October 20, 2026October 19, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Just because you’ve graduated from college doesn’t mean your alma mater needs to become a distant memory. By staying connected with your college through an alumni organization, you can build relationships with students who are studying to enter your field and other alumni who are professionals and potential partners, and even boost your brand profile by sponsoring events and becoming a presence on campus. This guide offers ideas for how to engage with your college’s alumni network for the benefit of your small business.

What is an alumni network?

An alumni network is an organization created by either a college/university or alumni to keep graduates connected with other alumni, current students, and the school’s faculty. Alumni networks allow people with shared experiences and similar interests to network on an ongoing basis. That could mean introducing employers to graduating students, connecting potential business partners with one another, or helping to mutually promote the school and alumni brands. Alumni networks can be a powerful tool and useful resource if you know how to leverage them correctly.

How to Show Qualifications With Limited Work Experience | businessnewsdaily.com

October 20, 2026October 19, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

If you’ve just graduated from college and are heading into the job hunt with limited experience, take the following steps to increase your chances of getting hired.

1. Create different resume variations.

By tailoring your resume to the job instead of using a generic version for each application, you improve your chances of standing out in a stack of resumes. Spend time adapting your resume to each job while noting the position’s broader category and the job description’s keywords. When creating resume variations, here are some elements to keep in mind:

Highlight relevant experience. For example, if you’re applying for a management position, include relevant leadership experience in clubs or internships that show you’d be a strong fit to become a first-time manager. On the flip side, sharing that you were a food columnist at your college’s student newspaper likely has no relevance to the position and doesn’t merit space on your resume. If you’re applying to be an entry-level chef, however, your food column may regain relevance and demonstrate your culinary knowledge.

Nervous System Reset: What 2 Minutes Can and Can’t Change | Life Hack

October 19, 2026October 18, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

A nervous system reset is a short practice, usually some form of slow breathing, that lowers your physical arousal for a stretch of time. It works, within limits. What it does not do is change where your body settles back to. That is why the calm you found at 2:40pm is gone by 3:05, and why the problem is almost never that you picked the wrong technique.

You know the sequence. Something lands badly in a meeting. Your chest tightens, your jaw sets, and you run the thing you read about: four in, seven hold, eight out. It helps, for roughly as long as it takes to open the next tab. By the time the 3pm starts, you are back where you were, and now you also feel like the breathing failed.

It didn’t fail. It did the only thing two minutes can do. The gap between what these practices deliver and what readers expect of them is where the frustration lives.

Retirement Depression: Start With Who Set Your Last Day | Life Hack

October 19, 2026October 18, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

For a lot of people, it shows up on an ordinary weekday, some months after the last day. Not grief. Not anything you could point at and name. The house is quiet, the coffee is fine, and nothing in the day is pulling hard enough to get you out of the chair.

Look for an explanation, and you land on the phrase retirement depression, attached to either a symptom checklist or a list of hobbies.

We would start somewhere else: how much of this retirement did you actually choose?

Nintendo just made an unusual decision—and it’s going to be good for business | Fast Company

October 15, 2026October 14, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Sony sparked a backlash among gamers with its decision to phase out physical game discs. Now Nintendo is reassuring its customers that it has no plans to follow suit anytime soon.

“We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very heavily,” Bill van Zyll, VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America, said in a recent interview. “We also have a platform that was just launched. We’re barely just over a year into [Nintendo Switch 2]. It’s got both digital and physical—that capability. There are no plans to ditch physical.”