Elon Musk is still the Tesla wild card

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here we go again. That must have been the first thought on the minds of many Tesla shareholders this week as Elon Musk waded back into the political fray, declaring his intention to launch a…

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McDonald’s AI recruiting platform had a really embarrassing security flaw – and it left millions of users open to attack

McDonald’s recently introduced a new hiring platform called McHire It uses an AI-powered chatbot that collects resumes, CVs, and contact data Researchers managed to easily log into the backend and obtain all of the data stored by the AI A third-party supply chain vulnerability exposed sensitive data on 64 million people who applied to work…

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Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s

It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps stabilize neurons, but in Alzheimer’s disease, it begins to misfold and tangle inside neurons. It spreads across the brain forming toxic clumps…

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