tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Tons of great Sophos research is dropping today which I’ll link in thread. China goes brrr.

I want to give them particular credit for directly talking about the cyber industry elephants in the room, both in the research and during media interviews

e.g. insecurity in appliances, need for industry change, monitoring threat actors through telemetry etc etc.

It’s really refreshing as they’re talking about what is *actually happening* - not all vendors do this.

https://www.wired.com/story/sophos-chengdu-china-five-year-hacker-war/

I hesitate to offer "biggest takeaways" because the case is so convoluted, but one key observation is that the duo's legal victories in Western courts seem to rely more on the ill repute of Russia's justice system (which would love to arrest Z&L) and not the merits of the bankers' case, per se. Amplifying this is the fact that several of the FSB officers and regulators who eventually cracked down on Probusinessbank are suspects in the Magnitsky case.

Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.

#weather #wx #ClimateChange

#PPOD: Little moon Daphnis making waves inside the Keeler Gap of Saturn's rings; a view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on June 3, 2010. Daphnis' dimensions are: 9.8 × 8.4 × 5.6 km. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS

#space #science #scicomm

EU and UK agree on cooperation in antitrust investigations

The agreement is the first that would allow national competition authorities from EU countries to cooperate directly with a competition authority outside the bloc.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-and-britain-agree-on-cooperation-in-antitrust-investigations/

Jag recenserar Alexej Navalnyjs postuma självbiografi "Patriot": https://www.gp.se/kultur/litteratur/litteraturrecension/recension-patriot-av-aleksej-navalnyj.6c48cb02-80ea-460a-b8e7-8979f7546b52

Bank of Finland report on Russian economic statistics

In addition to increased uncertainty related to Russian statistics since the invasion of Ukraine, some observers have raised doubts about the quality of Russian statistics. Applying simple analytical tools to detecting irregularities in Russian economic data that could implicate data manipulation, our analysis reveals irregularities. We find, however, no compelling evidence of extensive systematic data manipulation.

https://publications.bof.fi/handle/10024/53847

It's amazing to think that there are more galaxies in the observable universe than there are episodes of Midsomer Murders.

Jensen vill öka antalet skolplatser i Göteborg med 700 platser som inte behövs förrän om tio år. Göteborgs stad kan välja: lägga ner kommunala skolor till dess platserna behövs igen, eller betala för tomma skolplatser i tio år.

https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/sa-knacker-koncernerna-den-kommunala-skolan-i-goteborg/

A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.

Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.

https://www.facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography

Some institutions have already indicated that this will mean the elimination of numerous programs, particularly in language studies (the government party PVV has already indicated that the study of useless small languages like Hebrew and Aramaic is a woke left-wing hobby). Additionally, most English-language teaching will be prohibited (!), forcing many international faculty members, who moved here with their families, to quit.

@danderson And the machine with address 1 has the nickname of 'sex', literally the first thing on the internet.

I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.

If nothing else, a trivial thing I hadn't considered: tides. Coastlines aren't a constant feature even on a day timescale. OpenStreetMap standardizes on the coastline feature being "mean high water springs", the high tide line in spring averaged over the past 19 years.

There's a dedicated path in the OSM rendering pipeline just for producing the coastline+ocean backdrops, completely separate from the entire rest of the mapping logic, because it's just its own cursed little problem.

@glyph eg, "In the USA, once the Trump administration and Republican elites expressed skepticism regarding COVID-19 prevention behaviors—thus tagging them as counter-normative for the in-group—partisan elites and news sources amplified this belief and polarized Republicans readily accepted it"

insanely courageous. Very clear commentary on conservative policies with very specific examples

A vote for Harris is a vote for genocide (which isn't up for a vote); a vote for Trump is a vote for protestors against genocide being deported or gunned down in the streets (which is).

Elon Musk has spent the past couple years railing against “illegal” immigrants, but new reporting confirms what we’ve long suspected: Musk himself worked illegally in the United States and deceived officials when investors finally forced him to get a visa.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/

#tech #elonmusk #immigration #politics

Perfect encapsulation of our big tech-dominated internet:

Me asking if a friend’s house in south #Lebanon is among those detonated by #Israel.

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