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#FotoDerWoche mit Sommerblüten.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/08/photo-of-the-week-sonnenhut-i/

Photo of the week: Sonnenhut - I
Licht flutet durch die Blüten des Sonnenhuts und verspricht einen weiteren Sommertag. Inzwischen sind die Blüten längst ausgeblichen und verblüht, und das Wetter fühlt sich schon wieder sehr nach Herbst an.

ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as "2.333%" of Cl0p's net worth (Alexander Martin/The Record)
https://therecord.media/shinyhunters-clop-cyberattack-website

ShinyHunters cybercrime gang takes over Cl0p ransomware site, demands extortion payment
The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117132871966356343
Note that this is a solved problem, because ticketing systems have been around for a very long time. The problem is that they still rely upon humans.

Email: Patreon laid off 93 employees, totaling 20% of its workforce, on Thursday as part of a restructuring (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/

Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce
In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn’t replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates.

EXPRESS: Blurring of visual images facilitates the effect of semantically congruent sounds on visual memory performance https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470218261473600 Does this also apply to and have implications for visual-to-auditory sensory substitution?

Kann euch gar nicht sagen, wie viele kognitive und semantische Dissonanzen das bei mir auslöst.

Die Sanierung des #Schienennetzes kommt langsamer voran als geplant.
Verzögerungen, erneute Baustellen und offene Fragen zur #Digitalisierung sorgen für Kritik. Während #Bundesverkehrsminister

Problemfall Generalsanierungen: Haben Bahn und Politik einen Plan?
Das kaputtgesparte Schienennetz soll Stück für Stück repariert werden. Doch bei Sanierungen gab es häufig Probleme. Verkehrsminister Schnieder verweist auf die Bahn - aber das lässt ihm nicht jeder durchgehen.

ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-da…

‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

POV: You have been summoned to Human Ressources...

Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…