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How Safe is our Information Online? One Email Changed how I share my data.
On Thanksgiving Monday, I received an email from CIPPIC’s Director, Professor David Fewer, asking me for an urgent favour. The name matched and the tone seemed professional, but something was off—the email had come to my personal email account, not my school account. I immediately realized that it was a phishing attempt. Within a short time, other CIPPIC student interns reported receiving similar messages. This raised a serious question about the source of the informatio
Annie Markarian
Dec 1, 20254 min read


From Preservation to Restoration: How Emerging Biotechnologies Can Strengthen Conservation
Humanity faces an unprecedented biodiversity crisis: our sixth mass extinction . Only this time, it is driven not by natural forces but by human actions such as habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation, and climate change. Extinction rates now exceed natural extinction levels by 1,000 to 10,000 times and species populations across the planet are collapsing at alarming rates. The World Wildlife Fund reports an average global decline of 69% in...
Kristen Neudorf
Nov 26, 20254 min read


Authorship on the Eve of the Neural Age
“Neuralink and I, we’re on the eve of something great, so that works out perfect, too. Also – Adam and Eve. God created Adam, and then gave Adam a helper, who is Eve. I’m Adam, in this scenario, and Eve is my helper. Together they cursed humanity. Maybe I will do the same, with Eve.” Nolan Arbaugh, the first recipient of a Neuralink brain chip After a freak accident left Arbaugh entirely dependent on his family, Neuralink arrived with the promise of a better life – the uni
Rana Sarhan
Nov 24, 20253 min read


BitTorrent, Bad Evidence, and the Boundaries of Norwich Orders
While the film Hellboy: The Crooked Man delivers on-screen horror-superhero thrills, the production company faced drama off-screen over its copyright litigation. In Hellboy Productions v Doe #1 , Associate Judge John Cotter of the Federal Court of Canada rejected a motion by a film studio seeking to compel disclosure of identities of internet subscribers allegedly involved in infringing copyright in its film. The Court dismissed the motion because Hellboy failed to show tha
Selingul Yalcin
Nov 19, 20257 min read
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