An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?

An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?

To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics of citation and wealth inequality are surprisingly similar. Rankings are ubiquitous: every week, lists of best-selling records, movies, and books are released, and in sports like…

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Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images

Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images

Try taking a picture of each of North America’s roughly 11,000 tree species, and you’ll have a mere fraction of the millions of photos within nature image datasets. These massive collections of snapshots — ranging from butterflies to humpback whales — are a great research tool for ecologists because they provide evidence of organisms’ unique behaviors, rare conditions,…

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Phishing platform Rockstar 2FA trips, and “FlowerStorm” picks up the pieces

Phishing platform Rockstar 2FA trips, and “FlowerStorm” picks up the pieces

Editor’s note: Sophos MDR’s Johua Rawles, Mark Parsons, Jordon Olness, and Colin Cowie contributed to this report.   One of the Internet’s most prolific cybercrime-as-a-service operations recently suffered a setback: In November, Sophos MDR noticed that detections for the Rockstar2FA “phishing-as-a-service”(PaaS) platform had suddenly gone quiet. Based on telemetry gathered by Sophos MDR, it appears…

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