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On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/scattered-spider-hacker…

Remember the disastrous way Columbus handled its breach two years ago? The city's IT director, who is partially responsible for the mess, is retiring and will be lauded by the city council.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-g…

Columbus' IT director retiring nearly two years after major cyber attack exposed citizens' data
Soon after the city first noticed something was wrong on July 18, 2024, officials shut down systems to thwart the attack. The action shut down the city's systems for months, leaving some systems not fully operational until 2025.

Wrote about this a while back, and it just arrived. This is the violet vinyl of one of my favorite LPs of 2024 (and my all time favorite dungeon synth record), Warlock Corpse's 'Bloody Tears of the Desert'. So damn beautiful!
There were only 200 of these made, and there's still some available here:

"Hot take: Learning from Google Scholar and why a tool does not need to be flawless to be useful" by Aaron Tay
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/learning-from-google-scholar-and
"I consider the idea of tools that are considered flawed because they…

from my link log —
Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10981
saved 2024-02-18 https://dotat.at…

Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT
Inspired by the method of smoothed asymptotics developed by Terence Tao, we introduce a new ultra-violet regularisation scheme for loop integrals in quantum field theory which we call $η$ regularisation. This allows us to reveal a surprising connection between the elimination of divergences in divergent series of powers and the preservation of gauge invariance in the regularisation of loop integrals in quantum field theory. In particular, we note that a method for regularising the series of na…

75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).

Former 6th Round Pick Named ‘Biggest Surprise’ for Cowboys https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wide-receiver-ryan-flournoy-biggest-surprise/

Sichtung in Lustenau - Asiatische Hornisse: Erste Nester in Österreich #News #Nachrichten

Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

In honor of the current over-the-top #HeatWave in Western Europe here is #DavidGilmour performing the 1970 #PinkFloyd piece "Fat Old #Sun" in #Rome in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvP1sQGKREM. Other recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5x6WBylnw (2024, same tour), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTplhld7Ro (2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGn6hvhuso and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqlI-HYuCA (both 2006).

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024) - An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024)
An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

Democrats are seeing positive signs in a South Texas congressional seat that looked, on paper, like one of the harder places for the party to win back in 2026.
Democrat Bobby Pulido leads Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District, according to a new House Majority PAC-sponsored poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Associates, and shared with Newsweek on August 4.
Donald Trump carried the redrawn district by nearly 18 points in 2024,

Democrats Favored to Flip Texas House Seat Trump Won by 18 Points
A new poll has put Democrat Bobby Pulido ahead of Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District.

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Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/guilty-plea-snowflake-hack-connor-riley-moucka…

Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.

H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 29 Jun 2026 - 06 Jul 2026
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
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Titans waive QB Will Levis, ending 3-year tenure with franchise: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7550710/2026/08/30/will-levis-titans-waive-nfl/

"Out of Bib – Lernen auf dem Campus: Eine vergleichende Analyse zu Ergebnissen aus einer Studie der Nicht-Benutzung in Kooperation mit ausgewählten deutschen Hochschulbibliotheken" von Miriam Wildermuth in den Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft des @…:

Author of DNC's 2024 "autopsy" says he concluded Gaza war hurt Harris (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/dnc-2024-autopsy-author-gaza
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p129#a260806p129

from my link log —
A history of Psion and Symbian.
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian
saved 2024-06-23 https://

Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android

Elon Musk Accused Of Meddling In 2024 Election - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/09/elon-musk-accused-of-meddling-in-2024-election/

DOOM ports for various early digital cameras: https://archive.org/details/doomd_202406

Voor wie niet slapen kan.
Westend – Nord bei Nordost - #ARD
Trailer:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/nord-bei-nordost/trailer-nord-bei-nordost-westend/ard/Y3JpZDovL2FyZC5kZS92aWRlby0xNTU2NA
Uitzending:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/nord-bei-nordost/westend-nord-bei-nordost/ard/Y3JpZDovL2FyZC5kZS9wbGFuQVJEXzkwMTNmODNmLWMzMTktNDdhYi05ZjM3LTc4YWZiMjQ2MWVkZF9nYW56ZVNlbmR1bmc (2024, 89min)
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