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Coinhive harnesses the resources of 500 million people with no questions asked. Ars TechnicaA surge of sites and apps are exhausting your CPU to mine cryptocurrency Dan Goodin | Security Editor at Ars Technica

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. It’s a puzzle why more people don’t use long-acting reversible contraceptives like IUDs or hormone shots. Berk Ozler reports on qualitative findings from Cameroon about why adolescent girls don’t seem interested in them. A new working paper suggests that how refugees fare economically in the U.S. is heavily dependent on at what age they arrive, perhaps because learning English is easier if they come earlier. The authors estimate...