Author: Charles Pineda

The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council of the Federal Capital Administration has clarified the demolition of a mechanic shed and a building at Plot 1765 in the Games Village area of the FCT, on Thursday. The AMMC said the plot was allotted to the council in 2012 for the construction of Senior Staff Housing Estate. Addressing […]

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Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, is currently under siege from a large-scale and sophisticated cyberattack. Users are urged to exercise extreme caution when using the platform until the issue is fully resolved. The attack involves a vast botnet, consisting of over 140,000 compromised machines, which is bombarding Electrum’s servers with Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The attackers’ aim is to disrupt the legitimate service and redirect users to malicious versions of the Electrum software specifically designed to steal Bitcoin. Worryingly, the attackers have also deployed numerous servers hosting these compromised versions of the Electrum client. If a user unknowingly synchronizes their vulnerable…

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Over 72 million Americans are obese—a condition associated with a plethora of negative health outcomes including diabetes, cancer, and heart problems. But Americans’ eating habits aren’t obesity’s only cause, and we’ve suspected as much for a long time now. In 1932, the California Medical Association noted that “the inborn disposition to obesity may be very […]

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In his 2003 book, Being No One, Thomas Metzinger contends there is no such thing as a “self.” Rather, the self is a kind of transparent information-processing system. “You don’t see it,” he writes. “But you see with it.” Metzinger has given a good amount of thought to the nature of our subjective experience—and how […]

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