What’s the point of a PhD now?

Why should bright young students work for years to get a PhD if senior academics won’t engage them for research projects as its cheaper and easier to autogenerate slop with ChatGPT?

Protecting our privacy from criminals – and corporations

Corporations extract and keep huge amounts of personal information from their customers, then allow hackers to steal it through lax security. Reducing the amount of information they can hold would therefore limit the damage caused by criminal and state sponsored cyber-criminals.