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Columbia University investigating cyber incident after tech outages https://therecord.media/columbia-university-technology-outages

Oh man, today's Metacurity is a serious beast packed with a ton of infosec developments you should know, including
--French cops busted BreachForum, IntelBroker operators,
--Qilin gang ransomware attack killed an NHS patient,
--Glasgow City Council hit by ransomware attack,
--Western Sydney University student arrested for school database hacking,
--Liberal Party hacked after pro-women messaging,
--Columbia University probes security incident,
--Hu…

French cops busted BreachForum, IntelBroker operators
Qilin gang ransomware attack killed an NHS patient, Glasgow City Council hit by ransomware attack, Western Sydney University student arrested for school database hacking, Liberal Party hacked after pro-women messaging, Columbia University probes security incident, much more

Empirically Predicted Absolute Magnitudes for Red Clump Stars in Mephisto and CSST Filters
Zheng Yu, Bing-Qiu Chen, Xiao-Wei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20078

Empirically Predicted Absolute Magnitudes for Red Clump Stars in Mephisto and CSST Filters
Red clump (RC) stars are reliable standard candles for studying the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. In this study, we present empirical calibrations of RC absolute magnitudes in the Mephisto (v, g, r, i) and CSST (g, r, i) photometric systems using a high-purity sample of 25,059 RC stars cross-matched between APOGEE and Gaia DR3 XP spectra. Through synthetic photometry and polynomial fitting, we find that RC absolute magnitudes exhibit strong dependencies on effective temperature and …

"The most worrying possibility behind Earth’s [accelerating warming] is how the general nature of clouds may be changing in response to climbing temperatures. It’s a feedback loop that could potentially exacerbate warming and is one of the single biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate."

Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling the Effects
Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.

A post from the archive 📫:
Columbus Fantasy Transit Map
#musings

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/

Yay, I've done all my Boring and Serious book-keeping stuff and it's only lunchtime. Actually I quite enjoy it and I do like knowing exactly where each penny is going.

Faces to the sun
Roses climb the trellis bars
Plotting their escape.
#dailyhaikuprompt - trellis
#haiku
#poem

Tele Columbus: Es ist an der Zeit, das Ende von DSL einzuläuten
Die Telekom will die DSL-Abschaltung auf die lange Bank schieben. Tele Columbus hält dagegen: Der Wechsel auf Glasfaser spare Geld und wappne für die Zukunft.