BuzzFeed, After Gutting Its Newsroom, Asks Reporters to Produce Even More | Vanity Fair
juddlyBuzzFeed continues its rather astonishing fall from grace.... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/buzzfeed-news-profit-strategy
Hackers Can Access Exynos Chip Phones with Just a Contact Number. Google has Reported 18 Vulnerabilities.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. Like, this is pretty intense stuff. 4 of the 18 vulnerabilities allow access at the baseband Level, meaning a threat actor could hijack pretty much anything off…
Toronto Blue Jays introduce $20 ‘outfield district’ tickets
I really don't care all that much for the actual sport of baseball, as in I wouldn't watch a game on TV, but there is still something to be said…
Ancient dormant viruses found in permafrost, once revived, can infect amoeba
OK, so this is a truly terrifying side of global warming. As the permafrost melts, we are exposing all sorts of long-dormant viruses and microorganisms to the open air for…
Congress’ Social Security Numbers Leaked in DC Health Link Hack
Wow. Looks like DC Health Link, the default healthcare "marketplace" for the folks who work in Washington, got hacked. I'm searching online for more details on exactly what went down,…
Al Jazeera English: NASA says asteroid has small chance of hitting Earth in 2046
Ok, so we just discovered this thing in February, so the modeling prob isn't fully accurate yet, which they touch on in the article. But by "small" chance, they mean…
BBC News: UN buys huge ship to avert catastrophic oil spill off Yemen
Holy fuckballs!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64904985
Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole (not really as “mysterious” as title implies…)
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mysterious-object-sucked-milky-way-black-hole Yeah, the lead is a bit clickbait, because it makes you think of an actual physical object (or maybe that's just me) getting dragged into the black hole at…
Machine Learning Models: A Dangerous New Attack Vector
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/machine-learning-models-dangerous-new-attack-vector So, the name of this article should really be "The Ghost In The Machine", but that's been taken for than a few times, so we'll move on. What this…
BBC News: Two members of far-right militia guilty of US sedition
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63802649 Holy shit!!! Like, they don't just trot out the sedition charges for nothing. Wow