Collaborate Disseminate
Wired’s web site “is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act,” their global editorial director announced this week:
They’re called public records for a reason, after … Continue reading ‘Wired’ Drops Paywalls for Articles Based on Public Records Requests, Urges Other Sites to Follow
Dharma Niles, Krish Dev and Yezen Saadah report: A hacker took over NYU’s website for at least two hours Saturday morning to expose over 3 million applicants’ names, test scores, majors and zip codes, as well as information related to family members an… Continue reading Over 3 million applicants’ data leaked on NYU’s website
Angus Loten and James Rundle report: The Trump administration wants state and local governments to play a bigger role in protecting water utilities, ports and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. In an executive order signed Tuesday, Presid… Continue reading Trump Administration Begins Shifting Cyberattack Response to States
John Beauge reports: Personal information including Social Security numbers may be at risk as the result of unauthorized access and acquisition of data stored on a Pennsylvania county’s computer network. “We determined that the cyber criminals took cer… Continue reading Union County’s computer network breached, personal information accessed
From a March 20 press release from NY Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $975,000 in penalties from Root, an auto insurance company, for failing to protect the personal information of approx… Continue reading Attorney General James Secures $975,000 from Auto Insurance Company over Data Breach
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Ever heard of VENIX? There were lots of variants of Unix back in the day, and VENIX was one for the DEC Professional 380, which was — sort of — …read more Continue reading Booting a Desktop PDP-11
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Critical Veeam Backup & Replication RCE vulnerability fixed, patch ASAP! (CVE-2025-23120) Veeam has released fixes for a critical remote code executi… Continue reading Week in review: Veeam Backup & Replication RCE fixed, free file converter sites deliver malware
Until the late 1990s, the concept of a 3D accelerator card was something generally associated with high-end workstations. Video games and kin would run happily on the CPU in one’s …read more Continue reading Musings on a Good Parallel Computer
NASA is considering “closing its headquarters and scattering responsibilities among the states,” reports Politico, citing two people familiar with the plan.
“The proposal could affect up to 2,500 jobs and redistribute critical functions, including who… Continue reading NASA Considers Eliminating Its Headquarters in Washington D.C.