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Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain takeover attack.
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Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Old Python bootstrap scripts and a malicious PyPI package expose developers to domain takeover and RAT risks.

'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum
https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-st…

Generative AI’s Structure of Feeling
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research. 

The number of #EV home charging point installations in Italy 🇮🇹 increased by 157% in October compared to last year, indicating that the uptake of EVs (incentivised by a new round of income-dependent grants) is reaching new users.

Le installazioni di wall box impennano grazie al Bonus auto: a ottobre +157% (ricerca ProntoPro)
Circa il 40% delle richieste nazionali proviene dalle cosiddette aree urbane funzionali (FUA), con Milano in testa al 15%

Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn #environment

Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn
Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of plastic—spreading them considerable distances, and increasing exposure and impact within the environment.

Talking to Yourself (& Others!) About Climate Change — https://www.brichapman.com/p/talking-to-yourself-and-others-about?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

How to Talk About Climate Change Without Losing Hope
Talking about climate change without collapsing requires balance. This essay explores how focusing on solutions keeps us connected, curious, and alive.

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

@… the gobshite resurgence

The Distance Dr: In Practice
Bringing endurance research to the athletes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-distance-dr-in-practice/

iOS Developers Claim 1Password isn’t Removing Deleted Profile Pictures
The iOS developer and security researcher duo Mysk claims that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.
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iOS Developers Claim 1Password isn’t Removing Deleted Profile Pictures
The iOS developer and security researcher duo mysk claim that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.

Sabotage of climate action is systemic, not the result of individual actors.
Free download of ebook.
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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.