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When your net worth depends on the stock value of a company.

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Feb 3 (Reuters) — Mark Zuckerberg lost $29 billion in net worth on Thursday as Meta Platforms Inc’s (FB.O) stock marked a record one-day plunge, while fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos was set to add $20 billion to his personal valuation after Amazon’s blockbuster earnings.

Meta’s stock fell 26%, erasing more than $200 billion in the biggest ever single-day market value wipeout for a U.S. company. That pulled down founder and Chief Executive Officer Zuckerberg’s net worth to $85 billion, according to Forbes.

Zuckerberg owns about 12.8% of the tech behemoth formerly known as Facebook.

Researchers have discovered 23 “high-impact vulnerabilities” affecting any vendors that adopted Independent BIOS Developers (IBV) code into their Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware.

Binarly explained the vulnerabilities in a blog post this week, confirming that “all these vulnerabilities are found in several of the major enterprise vendor ecosystems” including Fujitsu, Siemens, Dell, HP, HPE, Lenovo, Microsoft, Intel and Bull Atos. CERT/CC confirmed that Fujitsu, Insyde and Intel were affected but left the others tagged as “unknown,” urging anyone affected to update to the latest stable version of firmware.

According to the blog, the majority of the vulnerabilities disclosed lead to code execution with SMM privileges and had severity ratings of between 7.5 — 8.2.

One mountain grew 30 feet overnight.

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Recently, the Swiss Alps made the news when scientists found they were growing due to tectonic activity deep beneath Earth’s surface. Now, Mount Everest is also on the rise. Why is there so much, uh, “mounting” altitude?

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Scientists took a critical step towards viable, self-sustaining nuclear fusion by creating so-called ‘burning plasma.’

The road to color e-paper took two decades.

After analyzing the data, the researchers found that 1.27 million deaths across the globe could be attributed to antimicrobial resistance, whereas 4.95 million deaths were associated with antimicrobial resistance.

Western sub-Saharan Africa had the highest rate of deaths attributable to and associated with antimicrobial resistance.

The study authors also found that the entire region of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia had the highest rate of both types of deaths.

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙? 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖… See more.

The Neuro-Network.

𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝘼𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨, 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙠𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨. 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙮𝙤… See more.

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As adults, we are innately aware that some activities are only okay in certain relationships. How do young children grow to understand these relatively complex social arrangements and use them to navigate the world? Saliva might have the answer.