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So you got the vaccine. Can you still infect people? Pfizer is trying to find out.

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So you got the vaccine. Can you still infect people? Pfizer is trying to find out.
 

The details: There are three things a vaccine can do: stop you from acquiring the disease altogether, stop onward transmission, and stop symptoms. We know that hardly anyone who gets a covid-19 vaccine ends up in an ICU on a respirator, but we don’t yet know how well these vaccines stop transmission. That’s because it’s expensive and complicated to measure. The evidence so far suggests that vaccines should cut the chance of transmission, but may not eliminate it.

What’s happening: Pfizer is recruiting volunteers in Argentina and in the US to help answer that question. These volunteers will undergo a series of nasal swabs to regularly test for the virus. The outcome of this trial is likely to be critical to determining how the pandemic plays out and how soon life goes back to normal.

The significance: Stopping transmission is the only way to get rid of the coronavirus for good. But if vaccinated people are “leaky”—if they can still spread the virus sometimes—it makes it much harder to reach the threshold for “herd immunity”, commonly thought to be about 70% of the population. And that means the pandemic will last longer, and we’ll still have to rely on measures like masks, and social distancing. Read the full story.

—Antonio Regalado


Google says it’s too easy for hackers to find new security flaws

The problem: Security researchers detected similar, previously-unknown flaws, known as zero-day vulnerabilities, in Microsoft products in December 2018, September 2019, November 2019, January 2020, and April 2020. This saga is emblematic of a much bigger problem in cybersecurity, according to new research from Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google: that it’s far too easy for hackers to keep exploiting insidious zero-days because tech companies are not doing a good job of permanently shutting down flaws and loopholes. 

The size of the issue: Over its six-year lifespan, Google’s team has publicly tracked over 150 major zero-day bugs, and in 2020 Stone’s team documented 24 zero-days that were being exploited—a quarter of which were extremely similar to previously disclosed vulnerabilities. Three were incompletely patched, which meant that it took just a few tweaks to the hacker’s code for the attack to continue working.

Why aren’t they being fixed? Most of the security teams working at software companies have limited time and resources— and if their priorities and incentives are flawed, they only check that they’ve fixed the very specific vulnerability in front of them instead of addressing the bigger problems at the root of many vulnerabilities. A big part of changing this comes down to time and money. Read the full story.  

—Patrick Howell O'Neill

We can still have nice things

A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)

  + This man biking down the Dubh Slabs on the Isle of Skye… all the feels.
  + Create your own mandala.
  + Peanut butter noodles = exactly the sort of high-deliciousness, low-stress recipe you want right now. 
  + The groundhog has spoken.
  + A constellation of books and how they are all connected. 
  + Beautiful snaps from a Pakistan-based photographer
  + The world's tiniest reptile. Aww. (Thanks Finn!) 
  + An experiment to trace the emotional waves of the last year. 
  + A suggestion: don't just message the word "hello" to people.

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The must-reads

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 Jeff Bezos is standing down as Amazon CEO
He'll finally have more time to spend with his billions. (CNBC)
  + His choice of successor shows the company is betting big on the cloud. (Wired $)
  + Some background on the new CEO Andy Jassy. (Protocol)
  + Amazon is endlessly bombarding workers with anti-union messaging. (WP $)
  + Amazon is paying $61.7 million to settle claims it stole delivery workers' tips. (NBC)
  + Big Tech is outgrowing even its founders. (Recode)
  + Amazon's next headquarters looks like a grassy poop emoji. (The Verge

2 The AstraZeneca vaccine seems to cut transmission by two-thirds
This is promising news. (The Guardian)
  + Those most likely to get covid-19 are last in line. (Wired $)
  + Moderna has come up with a way to boost its supplies. (Reuters)
  + Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective, according to interim trials. (CNN)
  + Inside the development of Russia's vaccine. (New Yorker $)
  + Ravaged by one covid-19 variant, the UK is racing to hunt down another. (NYT $) 

3 Those Reddit-approved stocks? They've plunged by $167 billion 📉
But some are still striking a defiant tone on the wallstreetbets subreddit. (Bloomberg $)
  + You can console yourself with a little stonks figurine. (The Verge

4 SpaceX's Starship crashed again 🚀
Here's why that's okay. (Ars Technica)
  + Tesla is recalling 135,000 vehicles after pressure from regulators. (Reuters

5 How to fix Facebook groups
Free ideas, Mr Zuckerberg. (NYT $)
  + Facebook is keeping a close eye on events in Myanmar (this time.) (WSJ $)
  + What Facebook's privacy policies don't tell you. (Gizmodo

6 Robots need to learn to get along 🤖🤝
Otherwise, multiple robots from many different manufacturers could be a recipe for disaster. (Wired $)
  + Boston Dynamics' Spot robot has an arm now. Cool, cool. (IEEE Spectrum)

 
7 Looks like China was in on the SolarWinds hack, too
Just when you think we've reached the extent of how bad the situation is, it gets worse. (Reuters)
 
8 Hate groups are becoming harder to track
Deplatforming works, but it has its downsides. (Recode)
 
9 People are bored at home so they're pretending to run marathons
I'm pretending to understand. (WP $)
 
10 Your future home could be made of mushrooms 🍄
Fairytales made real, thanks to science. (The Verge)

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Quote of the day

“We were in the dark. With so few samples, the detective work becomes more like seeing a mirage in the desert.”

—Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at the Louisiana State University, tells The Guardian why the US is virtually flying blind when it comes to detecting new covid-19 variants.

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