Today Briefly

Today Briefly

To Lena Health: You stored 2,134 patients' complete PHI in an unencrypted database export sitting in a public-facing S3 bucket. You stored 19,542 audio recordings of vulnerable elderly patients discussing erectile dysfunction, incontinence, gangrene, heart surgery, opioid prescriptions, and other deeply embarrassing medical conditions. Also in the Twilio data there are the transcriptions of all these calls, but we are holding off to post these until we can fully redact the last names.

As you gear up for Valentine's Day gifting, we're excited to share details about the exceptional new packages from Peter Luger Steak House -a legendary, family-owned steakhouse that has been serving New Yorkers since 1887. For those unable to visit the restaurant, Luger's Butcher Shop offers renowned dry-aged steaks and burgers for national shipping, perfect for transforming an at-home Valentine's Day dinner into a truly special occasion.

The real issue is data fragmentation. Each social platform runs its analytics in isolation. And that's not even counting complementary tools such as Google Analytics for tracking conversions or a CRM for customer data. Pulling it together takes manual work (and guesswork). Even worse: attribution complexity. When a customer discovers you on TikTok, reads your LinkedIn post weeks later, visits your site, talks to sales, then converts. Which touchpoint gets credit? Most platforms default to "last click," undervaluing awareness-stage content.

Separate studies from the IAB and Nielsen this week suggest that while digital advertising is in the rudest of health, the number of media owners benefiting from the spend are few, with the industry's West Coast behemoths seemingly the biggest winners. The latest IAB quarterly spending figures were published this week with the trade body claiming this year was the biggest Q3 ever for digital ad spend, with the numbers hitting $17.6bn during the period.

Dell, the narrator of this tragicomic novel, lives in a tiny apartment that used to be a walk-in closet. She also has a sister who's in a coma. When Dell loses her job at a smoothie shop, after throwing a jar of almond butter at a customer, she decides to start live-streaming, asking viewers to fund her sister's life support.

People might think I'm dumb for correcting typos too late or not at all, especially in the days of auto-correct. But I have embraced the typo. It'll be there, maybe next to a comma that's in the wrong place, but instead of thinking I'm no skilled writer, I hope you appreciate that I actually did write that. I didn't tell a machine to. It came out as intended. It lived a little.

"Have exported this grief. Some three thousand times," Abraham Lincoln thinks in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, contemplating the death of his young son as the Civil War rages in the background. "A mountain. Of boys. Someone's boys." It's one of the most moving passages in the novel, which was published in 2017 to near-universal acclaim. Racked by pain he can hardly tolerate, the 16th president realizes he is the source of such anguish for scores of others - an agent of death.

"Go, litel book," he bids the manuscript that's soon to be out of his hands. "That thou be understonde I god beseche!" Had Chaucer stuck around to witness the ensuing six hundred-plus years of literary discourse-and the past few decades in particular-he might have concluded that, when it comes to being understonde, the litel books aren't the ones you have to worry about. It's the big ones that'll get you.

The history of winemaking in Oregon dates back over 150 years, but it wasn't until the 1960s that things really started to take off. The state - particularly the Willamette Valley region - became known for producing pinot noir, and more vineyards were planted to expand the local wine industry. While California produces the lion's share of American wine, Oregon is still considered a leader in the domestic industry, ranking fourth nationally for wine production by volume.