As the threat of ransomware grows, companies have felt pressed to pay massive amounts to hackers holding systems hostage. One business decided not to give in to their attackers’ demands. Cyberattacks like the recent global attack that impacted multiple companies over the Fourth of July weekend, this spring’s disruptive attack on Colonial Pipeline and 2017’s infamous WannaCry virus are only growing in frequency and cost. The last five years especially has shown a marked increase, with attackers holding information and digital architecture hostage while demanding greater and greater ransoms.

The story of Queen Victoria is surprisingly and deeply intertwined with the birth of photography as a medium. In an exhibition opening at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, curator Anne Lyden has organized a comprehensive look at Victoria’s relationship to and influence on photography, from her first encounters with it as a young woman to her seminal Diamond Jubilee portrait. Victoria grasped from a young age what it would take the rest of the world many years to realize: that photography could be both an artistic medium as well as a mechanism of propaganda.

Every day for the past decade, I’ve tried to dethrone the family walking champ: my 67-year-old dad. Despite my youthful advantage—he has more than 30 years on me, as he’s quick to point out—I haven’t logged more steps than him once. I find this to be both mortifying and a point of vicarious pride; his fitness is remarkable. It’s also excellent motivation to find creative ways to finally out-walk him.

I'm not a fan of pot . I have shared a toke with friends a few times over the years, but I don't like to smoke. And I'm already paranoid, so weed seems superfluous. But the recent explosion of the marijuana industry, especially in my home state of California, along with countless testimonials about the medical properties of cannabis made me want to give medical marijuana a try.

Arthur Fournier was worn out when the four-day Antiquarian Book Fair wrapped up on March 8 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. But the 45-year-old rare books dealer knew he should start getting his sales in the mail. More coronavirus cases were starting to spring up around the U.S., and he had a feeling that things were about to get a lot worse. “Maybe there was something in my back of my mind saying, ‘Hey, get these out before this overwhelms everyone,’” Fournier recalls.