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The creator economy needs a Universal Basic Income — here’s why Keeping creativity alive in the digital age Why does the creator economy need a UBI? Employment opportunities are significantly shrinking, even in traditionally middle-class, high-income nations such as the United States. The vast majority of the world’s population is living in a system based on scarcity. We are also seeing more workers being replaced by automation. It is projected that by 2025, 47% of US jobs will be automated....

The creator economy needs a Universal Basic Income — here’s why Keeping creativity alive in the digital age Why does the creator economy need a UBI? Employment opportunities are significantly shrinking, even in traditionally middle-class, high-income nations such as the United States. The vast majority of the world’s population is living in a system based on scarcity. We are also seeing more workers being replaced by automation. It is projected that by 2025, 47% of US jobs will be automated....

The crypto collapse is a good thing for the climate Is crypto’s loss climates gain? Crypto’s loss, climate’s gain? The most polluting “proof-of-work” cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, ethereum, and dogecoin, together use around 300 terawatt-hours (TW/h) ofmainly fossil-fuelled electricityeach year. Bitcoin has an annual carbon footprint of around 114 million tonnes. That’s roughly comparable to 380,000space rocket launches, or the annual carbon footprint of the Czech Republic. Proof-of-work mining can be thought of as a controlled way of wasting energy....

The curious case of the Ubiquiti employee-whistleblower-hacker Full stack cybercriminal: Employee, hacker, whistleblower, extortionist Who is Nikolas Sharp? Sharp was a cloud lead at Ubiquiti Networks from August 2018 to March 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile. Prior to this, he worked at companies like Amazon and Nike. What was the big Ubiquiti security incident? In January, the company,sent an email to its customerssaying that a hacker had gained access to its systems hosted on third-party services —such as AWS — and some customer data including names, email IDs, addresses, and phone numbers may have been exposed....

The curious case of the Ubiquiti employee-whistleblower-hacker Full stack cybercriminal: Employee, hacker, whistleblower, extortionist Who is Nikolas Sharp? Sharp was a cloud lead at Ubiquiti Networks from August 2018 to March 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile. Prior to this, he worked at companies like Amazon and Nike. What was the big Ubiquiti security incident? In January, the company,sent an email to its customerssaying that a hacker had gained access to its systems hosted on third-party services —such as AWS — and some customer data including names, email IDs, addresses, and phone numbers may have been exposed....