Amazon’s new stores eliminate the cashier.
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Zuckerberg loses $29 billion in net worth, Bezos gains $20 billion
When your net worth depends on the stock value of a company.
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.
UEFI firmware vulnerabilities affecting Fujitsu, Intel and more discovered
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.
Mount Everest and the Alps Are Weirdly Getting Taller
One mountain grew 30 feet overnight.
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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Antimicrobial resistance linked to 1.27 million deaths in 2019
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.