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CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – October 30, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 1 grant, 8 call for papers, and 11 conferences/speakers.

Colts QB Anthony Richardson out indefinitely with injury to throwing shoulder https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6406152/2025/06/05/anthony-richardson-injury-shoulder-colts-news/

Ollie Madden, director of Film4 and Channel 4 drama, is leaving the broadcaster in October after an eight-year stint to join Netflix as director of UK film (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/ollie-madden-film4-join-netfli…

Ollie Madden Exiting Film4/Channel 4 To Join Netflix As Director Of UK Film; Farhana Bhula & Gwawr Lloyd Upped At UK Broadcaster
Ollie Madden Leaving Film4/Channel 4 To Join Netflix As Director Of UK Film;

“Here be dragons and sea monsters, my fellow genital cartographers, and we have a lot to learn from poking them.”
— Mira Bellwether, “Fucking Trans Women”
https://archive.org/details/fucking-trans-women-mira-bellwether-october-2010.cleaned…

Religious Studies Project Opportunites Digest – October 16, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 38 new job opportunities, 5 fellowships, 3 grants, 5 call for papers, 12 conferences/speakers, and 1 other opportunity.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08161 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The Monte Carlo Computational Summit -- October 25 & 26, 2023 -- Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
The Monte Carlo Computational Summit was held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA on 25--26 October 2023. The goals of the summit were to discuss algorithmic and software alterations required for successfully porting respective code bases to exascale-class computing hardware, compare software engineering techniques used by various code teams, and consider the adoption of industry-standard benchmark problems to better facilitate code-to-code performance comp…

Is posting wrong AI answers still a thing, or do we all just accept they're making stuff up? #ai #googlesearch #aioverview
I mean, just note that the first and last sentence are clearly contradicting each other.

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
#toXiv_bot_toot

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

The Elephant In The Room
We have often highlighted in the pages of this magazine the seemingly never-ending sequence of fashion waves hitting the software industry. We have discussed in 2020 the one impacting type systems, and more recently, another one concerning object-oriented programming. What is important in both cases is not the details of the technologies per se, but the social mechanisms at play in both situations. In this edition, we will encounter yet another example of such a clash, this time concerning rela…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 23, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 2 fellowships, 2 call for papers, and 4 conferences/speakers.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 39!) […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08277 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Quantum computing from a mathematical perspective: a description of the quantum circuit model
This paper is an essentially self-contained and rigorous description of the fundamental principles of quantum computing from a mathematical perspective. It is intended to help mathematicians who want to get a grasp of this quickly growing discipline and find themselves taken aback by the language gap between mathematics and the pioneering fields on the matter: computer science and quantum physics. A first version of this paper was originally published at arXiv in October 2018. Minor corrections…

Fuck Google
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/30/google-end-date-original-nest-thermostat/

Google Announces End Date for Original Nest Thermostat Support
Google has announced that first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats will lose support in October 2025, disabling their connected...

Good to see the other states have come on board with police officer decertification policies. Rhode Island needs to get with the program.
#JusticeReform
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Rhode Island resists efforts at policing reform embraced by every other state
In October, a Newport County jury found that former Jamestown Police Det. Derek Carlino was negligent in his involvement in the death by suicide of a teenager. But it won’t end Carlino’s career in policing. A report commissioned by the Portsmouth School Department found Carlino had worked with a football coach to pressure fifteen-year-old Nathan […]

if you want to read the new translation of Capital, it's 50% off until May 31st, which means there is only half as much socially-necessary labor time embodied in it
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital

And yes... of course he ...
"It should come as no surprise that after the massacres of October 7, 2023, all the loudest voices from the residential-schools “activism” immediately merged with the loudest voices in the ‘From Turtle Island to Palestine’ histrionics."
It's a wonder he sleeps at night with the spirits of innocent victims of genocidal governments swirling around him.
#palestine #israel #gaza
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools

Just checked, I have a "gen 3" thermostat, good for now.
https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p29#a250425p29

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20892 has been replaced.
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X-ray polarization observations of NGC 2110 with IXPE
X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the geometry of the X-ray corona in the Seyfert 2 AGN, NGC 2110, using its first polarimetric observation with IXPE, conducted over a net exposure of 554 ks beginning on October 16, 2024. We performed a model-independent analysis of the 2-8 keV IXPE polarimetric observ…

A bit of context that might be needed for this story about a 2010 website, is that prior to 2011 https wasn't widely used outside of e-commerce. The release of Firesheep in October 2010 led to a push for site authentication to go over https, and the 2013 Snowden revelations shifted the web towards encrypt all transmission.
https…

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

„Magician Among the Spirits“ by Slayer
Platform: Amiga
Released: 22 October 2022
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 1st in the Decrunch 2022 Amiga Pixel Graphics competition
#GFX_Slayer #YR_2022

Just checked, I have a "gen 3" thermostat, good for now.
https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p29#a250425p29

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
#linux

I just got email from Delta Airlines. As of October of this year, flying economy earns you zero frequent flyer miles.
That's fine, it just means that I have to discount competing brands by 5% or something when comparing, since (for instance) economy on JetBlue *will* give me miles (points).

Spy x Family Starts Airing in October 2025
#anime #spyxfamily …

„No signal, 1081-head in the glitchy CGA swamp“ by z3k
Platform: Amiga
Released: 1 October 2022
Specification: 320x240px 66 colors
Note: 1st in the Flashparty 2022 Oldschool Pixel Art competition
#GFX_z3k #YR_2022

My Hero Academia
Final Season
Source : #ヒロアカ

„Duck It“ by Pal
Platform: C64
Released: 25 October 2014
Note: 1st in the X 2014 Graphics competition
#GFX_Pal #YR_2014 #PF_C64

Carlton Cemetery, Nottingham, September 2023
#photography #ukphotographer #nottingham #documentingplaces

„Area 64“ by Pal
Platform: C64
Released: Released 29 October 2016
#GFX_Pal #YR_2016 #PF_C64 #C64