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Australia updates law to protect data after Optus hack

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government announced changes Thursday to its telecommunications law to protect vulnerable customers after personal details were stolen in a major cyberattack on the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier. The changes to Telecommunications Regulations allow Optus and…

The FBI’s murder rate mystery

The number of murders rose nationally in 2021, according to new data released by the FBI on Wednesday. Or maybe it didn’t. If the FBI’s estimate is accurate, it would mean there were more murders in the US in 2021…

The Ghostly Songs of Othmar Schoeck

Photograph from Alamy  The Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck, who lived from 1886 to 1957, is little known outside his native land, but his moments of fame have been as striking as they are strange. For one thing, Schoeck gained the…