@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-29 15:15:54
Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach
affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information.
In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations.
TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim.
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-29 23:15:55
Filing: Intel says its funding deal with the US loosens its requirements under the CHIPS Act, including removing the need to meet certain project milestones (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/t…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-07-30 20:39:11
Needless to say, don’t let these fuckers scan your face. https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-Sz4wqO5-S2O_A8Yxqr6d1A:a:4082434389-/0
@playinprogress@assemblag.es2025-06-29 10:57:06
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-06-28 13:30:10
In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-08-27 21:12:10
The underground “Jiangmen Underground #Neutrino Observatory" (JUNO) near Jiangmen city in the Guangdong Province has successfully completed the filling of its 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and begun data taking: https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/juno-completed-liquid-filling-and-begins-data-taking/ - JUNO will tackle one of this decade’s major open questions in particle physics, the ordering of neutrino masses i.e. whether the third mass state (ν₃) is heavier than the second (ν₂).
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2025-08-29 14:22:07
"The Wager-a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder", by David Grann. You get exactly the history lesson you expect: the hardship of life at sea in the 18th century, the lack of medical understanding, and the collapse of civil behaviour under life-threatening situations. And the incredible survival of some of the crew, and the following courtmarshall.
#book
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-30 12:14:20
Guide to the NFL's rookie class: Who is flying under the radar? Who will win OROY, DROY? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45979912/2025-nfl-rookies-guide-fantasy-picks-stat-projections-top-qbs-roy
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz2025-08-29 02:21:34
FYI, here’s the exact language of 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) which spells out how media mail is exempt:
https://kind.social/@wbwolf/115103183358864928
