"Prevents unconditioned air from entering the home" is more accurate. Passive houses are built with ERVs to provide a constant source of fresh air to the building and remove waste air while keeping the heat in/out.

I was excited for this new step towards a gray goo apocalypse until I saw this part of the article: "Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the ability to develop into different cell types. To make the xenobots, the researchers scraped living stem cells from frog embryos and left them to incubate. There's no manipulation of genes involved. "Most people think of robots as made of metals and ceramics but it's not so much what a robot is made from but what it does, which is act on its own on behalf of people," said Josh Bongard, a computer science professor and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study. "In that way it's a robot but it's also clearly an organism made from genetically unmodified frog cell.""

Converting stolen credentials into actual money is hard. Since banks can repudiate and reverse password-enabled transfers you have to have a mule to be left holding the (empty) bag when the bank reverses the transfer. Microsoft had an interesting whitepaper on the topic a few years back: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

The housing crunch has little to do with the cost of construction and much to do with restrictive zoning and discretionary reviews that prevent projects from happening at all.

The giveaway is that the executives ask way too nicely in the emails.