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The back-to-school shopping season hit its stride in August, according to the latest Shopify data shared first with Retail Brew. While an eclectic mix of school supplies and fall wardrobe items sold well in July, those trends sharpened in August as parents got serious about stocking their kids’ desks. Sales spiked for label clips (up…

An attacker handed an unknown corporate victim a comprehensive, 80-page security audit on Wednesday — not as a service, but as a postscript to the ransomware attack that had just consumed the victim’s enterprise. According to Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence unit Unit 42, whose researchers documented the September 2 incident, the audit was generated…

A sweeping study of 588,322 American workers, published in the journal Science last June, found that workers in remote-capable jobs spent roughly one additional waking hour alone each workday after the pandemic — and did not compensate afterward. They socialized less outside of work hours too. That finding — combined with a landmark UK survey…