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BAS Moves their Doomsday Clock Even Closer to Midnight [1]

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Date: 2023-01-24

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced their iconic Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before Midnight today, 10 seconds closer than their last update in 2022, and closer than any previous point in its nearly 8-decade history — primarily as a result of Russia’s unprovoked and genocidal war against Ukraine, but also with a nod toward the increasing risks of accelerating climate change and the potential for future pandemics.

And to illustrate the latter problem, they have a very disturbing article up on how researchers managed to hack a lab’s pathogen containment system — and then published a step-by-step tutorial as to how they did it!

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