Column: High anxiety: 9 things that are keeping me up at night

Column: High anxiety: 9 things that are keeping me up at night

A technician inspects the backside of bitcoin mining at Bitfarms in Quebec in 2018. Scam artists love blockchain-based currencies like bitcoin. (LARS HAGBERG / AFP/Getty Images) With a tip of the press fedora to my fellow columnist Mary Schmich, whose lists of nine things she likes periodically grace these pages, here’s a list of nine things that are scaring me these days. In no particular order and with no effort at completeness:

1. Deepfakes. Rapid advances in technology are making counterfeit audio and video easier and easier to produce. Home users now have cheap, easy access to special-effects techniques […]

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