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1 Covid is missing death certificates in China
Medical professionals are under pressure to cite other causes of death. (FT $)
+ China is cracking down on “gloomy sentiment” related to covid. (guard)
+ There has been a jump in the number of hospitalizations due to covid. (Reuters)
+ The right combination of drugs can help in the long-term treatment of covid. (Atlantic $)

2 The US Supreme Court is weighing the future of the Internet
It is open to review if the web platforms are legally responsible for the content. (NYT $)
+ The companies’ existing legal protections are unpopular with tech critics in both major US political parties. (FT $)

3 Google cuts 12,000 jobs
The CEO said they want to increase their focus on AI. (precipice)
+ ChatGPT is making it nervous enough to call big guns. (NYT $)
+ The right and very wrong ways to use ChatGPT. (WP $)

4 Sophisticated ad scams hit 11 million phones
It was one of the largest, most complex schemes ever discovered. (Wired $)

5 Twitter is being sued by experts hired to force Elon Musk to buy it
The consulting firm wants Twitter to make $2 million. (Bloomberg $)
+ Elon Musk could appear in court today in a separate legal case. (guard)

6 Weather forecasts have an exaggeration problem
Weather prediction startups tend to over-promising and under-performing. (WP $)

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

8 It’s hard to grasp just how big the universe really is
But the work of Henrietta Leavitt has given us a yardstick to measure that. (Vox)
+ NASA’s return to the moon got off to a rough start. (MIT Technology Review)

9 Make room for prodigy podcast hosts
A presenter starts her own show at just seven years old. (guard)

10 Don’t let that cute dog picture fool you
Toxic ideas can be easily concealed online behind animal images. (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 core group of hackers is behind the majority of ransomware attacks, Bloomberg report.

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