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A lot happened in the infosec world over the weekend, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Europol expert platform breached, IntelBroker claims theft of classified data
-- Half of Christie's annual revenue jeopardized by 'technology security issue,'
--Former US Marine pilot wanted by US 'unknowingly' worked with Chinese hacker,
--Lazarus group stole massive amount from S. Korean court computer network,
--British Columbia cyberattack likely state-sponsored,
--Embargo group leaks 500GB of Firstmac data,
--Dell hacker claims he brute-forced portal to scrape data,
--Feds warn of Black Basta activity following Ascension hack,
--Hacker returns $68m in stolen crypto,
--Alleged Russian hacker attacks UK news sites,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/europol-expert-platform-breached-intelbroker-claims-theft-classified-data

Nice SEO Land Article about going green following a survey they did end of last year. Useful links for everyone not just #seo folk!
https://searchengineland.com/climate-c…

EU law enforcement cooperation reaches new level in Trackathon held at Europol HQ.
90 participants from 33 countries and Europol took part in the first edition of the Trackathon.
The #ENFAST #Trackathon resulted in new leads on 50 cases.

‘Nobody saw this coming’; California dairies scramble to guard herds against #bird #flu
There is no single federal or state agency responsible for following this disease
— one that affects wildlife, agriculture and public health.
Some experts say it’s a flawed silo-like approach for a virus that concerns mul…

California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu
As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?

Another great example of (charitably) Kruger-Dunning (or more realistically, towering naivity) among the vljmstoligy community.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
The reason GHG emissions still aren't falling far or fast enough to avoid global catastrophe is "lack of political will" and "corporate vested interests". The fact is that governments of even nations with undemocratic and tyrannical regimes are in the hands of the populace in the medium to long term. How long would, say, Putin remain in power if he announced a ten year programme to tax meat to the point it's a rare luxury reserved for the wealthy, to transition from petrol and diesel fuels, a crash programme to dump coal and gas for power generation and heating and roll out renewables, abolishing hidden subsidies for concrete manufactures to ensure the the emission externalities are priced in, virtual bans on civilian aviation and so on? Certainly there'd be an interesting Keynesian multiplier effect from all the expenditure and investment*, but he'd still be dangling from a metaphorical lamppost within a few years.
*actually the debt incurred would cause huge inflation.
The other big problem, still, is lack of public understanding. There's "awareness", but here are still huge misapprehension. Eg., many people still seem to think thst net zero would mean a return to mid-20thC climates; people still don't grasp the consequences of passing major tipping thresholds, or that many climate elements (ice sheet melting, ocean circulations,..) have multi-decadal or multi-century lags before reaching a final equilibrium. And they still have no clue how fragile civilisation is, or what life in 2100 -- or 2050! - will be like.
I remain more optimistic than I was 25y ago when I first started taking an interest, though. 2.5°C still looks plausible to me, if current reductions continue to accelerate, given a few weather megadisasters to chivvy us along.

I sure hope that he knows that this is utter bullshit. I mean, his entire government must realize that they are failing at education, environment, seniors, autism support, healthcare, public transit, housing, and pretty much anything they touch. Otherwise, he's delusional and and things will get worse while they spend millions in advertising telling us that we all live in Ontopia...
#DougFordFailedOntario #onpoli
https://twitter.com/fordnation/status/1778755155334226355?t=qf2b0KU7Z_odSs6FavTihg&s=19

ASD, emotional memory, fears
Emotional memory is a bitch, and people in the spectrum are particularly vulnerable to it.
Let's say that something triggers the emotion of fear in you. You may be consciously recalling some bad memories, you may be imagining a possible outcome. However, when emotional memory comes into action, things are much worse. Your nervous system immediately brings the deep feeling of fear that is associated with the memory. You may even no longer be able to recall the memory, forget it entirely, yet your mind will ceaselessly keep hitting you with a whole set of emotions that you can't control, every single time it happens.
What's even worse, these things add up. Bad memories create fear. Fear creates more bad memories. These memories amplify the emotional reaction — and the wheel turns.
But the worst is the lack of understanding. People telling you that you are being irrational, that you are being an embarrassment to your family, that they have to give stuff up because of you. So the emotional memory becomes richer with the feelings of embarrassment, guilt and low self-esteem. All coalescing into a huge ball of emotion.
Today, you know it's not true. The fear wasn't irrational at all, it's pretty understandable in people who are #ActuallyAutistic, even "typical". Yet, what's the point of knowing that, if these emotions are deeply seated in your memory, and they will haunt you forever, and prevent you from ever having an illusion of normal life?

“Simply, there is no way to be cool,” [Pissed Jeans singer] Korvette concludes, “especially when you’ve hit a sixth album. We’re clearly not new; we’re old, we don’t care. It feels cool to not want to be cool. It’s the best. It’s the beauty of not feeling inclined to impress anyone, no need to show that you deserve anything, that you are punk or edgy. It’s embarrassing to try too hard. We're more comfortable in our own skin.”

Pissed Jeans Don’t Try Too Hard and Do Music For Fun | Feature Interview — POST-TRASH
During our 33-minute conversation, Matt Korvette, the 42-year-old vocalist of Pissed Jeans, says “fun” eleven times and “fan” six times. The Sub Pop mainstays out of Philadelphia dropped their sixth album, Half Divorced , and Korvette has it on repeat. Approaching two decades as a band, Pissed Jean

1/ „Numerous experts said they had been left feeling hopeless, infuriated and scared by the failure of governments to act despite the clear scientific evidence provided.“
I feel hopeless, infuriated and scared.
Andererseits findet demnächst ne Party statt, bei der der Ausbau der Erneuerbaren gefeiert wird. Das war 2023 wohl wirklich enorm. Stay tuned. Ich werde dabei sein und berichten.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07241 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Context-Aware Planning and Environment-Aware Memory for Instruction Following Embodied Agents
Accomplishing household tasks requires to plan step-by-step actions considering the consequences of previous actions. However, the state-of-the-art embodied agents often make mistakes in navigating the environment and interacting with proper objects due to imperfect learning by imitating experts or algorithmic planners without such knowledge. To improve both visual navigation and object interaction, we propose to consider the consequence of taken actions by CAPEAM (Context-Aware Planning and En…