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What is a sanguine new congressional candidate to do
when the district they thought they were running in gets torn apart by a governor’s efforts to gerrymander his state at the president’s behest?
For Pia Dandiya, a first-time candidate for the Democratic party in Florida,
the answer was simple:
pick up some maps, hit the road, and embrace the challenge of conquering a different part of the state.
Dandiya, a professional educator dipping her toe for the first ti…

Pia Dandiya for Congress — A New Future for Florida
A Democrat who wants to write a new future, Pia is determined to make the American dream more accessible to her fellow Floridians.

OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hack (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-no…

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.

Okay, I'll just say it. The problem with the "new" Butthole Surfers album is of course it isn't new, it's just an official release of the album that would become The Weird Revolution. Almost all of the songs are the same or similar. Fans have had After the Astronaut for years, since the early 2000s. 🙄 Just wish it was REALLY new material. What, Weird Revolution didn't have Junkie Jenny in Gaytown? I know. But it's all everywhere already.

We now have wildfire layers for maps… sigh.
Happy to see it, angry that we need it.
https://theradavist.com/ride-with-gps-new-wildfires-layer-see-fire-smoke-and-wind-before-you-ride

Ride with GPS: New Wildfires Layer – See Fire, Smoke, and Wind Before You Ride
Fire season doesn't have to mean guessing. Available across web, iOS, and Android, RWGPS' new Wildfires Layer shows you exactly where fires are burning, so you can avoid wildfire smoke while cycling and adjust your plans before you take off on a ride or extended tour... New Wildfires Layer The Wildfires Layer shows active fire perimeters across the US and Canada, refreshed every hour. That means you're never looking at stale data when you're deciding whether a route is worth riding. On the map,…

I'll be doing a full write-up soon, but sharing now because I'm so excited.
@… just approved my #SEO plugin 🎉
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New #Bandcamp Layoffs:
Why Artists Are Worried and Where to Turn
Last week, Bandcamp laid off more engineers.
Here's why some artists are panicking and the alternative direct-to-fan platforms gaining traction.
For independent artists and labels, Bandcamp isn't just another platform.
While Spotify and other streamers pay artists a small fraction of revenue per play,

New Bandcamp Layoffs: Why Artists Are Worried and Where to Turn
Last week, Bandcamp laid off more engineers. Here's why some artists are panicking and the alternative direct-to-fan platforms gaining traction.

A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-security-pro-hack…

A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.

Kamo'oalewa,
a 131- to 328-foot-wide near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago,
a smashup that created the moon's 13.7-mile-wide Giordano Bruno crater, according to the research.
"469219 Kamoʻoalewa" as it is officially designated, was discovered in 2016 by the Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid survey telescope on Haleakalā, Hawaii,
as part of NASA's planetary defense effort to discover space rocks…

Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
"Like detectives, we used all known information regarding this Kamo‘oalewa and the lunar surface to derive a scenario for the origin of this object, starting from the impact that produced the Giordano Bruno crater."

If you’ve decided to file Heidi Blake's NewYorker profile of Andrew Tate away for later,
let me just distill for you why I think it’s unusually important.
First is the scale of the depravity.
It’ll drain the color from your face.
It’s weird to say that the terms “sex trafficking” and “rape” are insufficient to convey the depth of evil Blake uncovered.
But there’s really no other way to put it.
There was nothing incidental or concealed or limited a…

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
Heidi Blake reports on how the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

FOR YEARS, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies,
stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs.
Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising the alarm on just how effective and far reaching the targeting of individual employees and contractors has been in breachi…

A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.