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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/uk-sentences-serial-hacker-of-3-000-sites-to-20-months-in-prison/

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year.

Schadenersatz für Datenschutzskandal? Zuckerberg vor Gericht
Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, Mark Andreessen u.a. stehen vor Gericht, verklagt auf Milliarden wegen laschen Datenschutzes bei Facebook.

Ukraine's long-range Flamingo cruise missile enters serial production, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukraines-longrange-flamingo-cruise-missile.html

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 22965 nodes and 94386 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

I can imagine there is some diplomatic wiggle room in the recognition of russian occupied Crimea, surely not de jure but some de facto maybe... giving up not-occupied territory is complete madness, so will not happen. I am very curious what european diplomats will come up with and whether they can commit Trump to something that is good for Ukraine and Europe.
#Trump

"Gas stations are America's accidental museums-fluorescent-lit shrines to kitsch, camp, and chaotic consumerism. Exploring gas station merchandise through art becomes a way to examine the surreal poetry of the roadside: airbrushed wolves on velvet, rhinestone trucker hats, Jesus candles, lottery tickets, and beef jerky side by side like some late capitalist still life. These one-stop culture convergence points are where regional identity, mass production, nostalgia, and irony collid…

How to slowly but surely log-off. I have been using a custom #launcher on #Android, Pro Launcher, which inserts a little break (and wants a confirmation) every time you open a social media app. This, and family life in a European summer 🌞.

'Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry'
I was lucky enough to hear Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley speak at an event a few years ago. What an incredible woman.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzzl

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91
She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost £70m of her fortune.

Serial or PSU....