Month: January 2023

Extreme Heat Is Changing People’s Daily Habits, Study Finds

(Image: Chuttersnap/Unsplash)When we study the effects of climate change on overall temperature, we’re normally worried about broad, earthly implications: melting icebergs, dwindling ecosystems, raging storms, and so on. And while the importance of these factors can’t be overstated, we rarely focus on the comparatively minute impacts on current humans’ day-to-day behaviors. New research suggests that

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A US district court orders the distribution of $17M+ in restitution to ~800 victims of the BitConnect Ponzi scheme from 40+ countries; BitConnect folded in 2018 (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)

Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: A US district court orders the distribution of $17M+ in restitution to ~800 victims of the BitConnect Ponzi scheme from 40+ countries; BitConnect folded in 2018  —  The millions will be distributed among the select number of victims, but thousands more were impacted by the $2.4 billion fraudulent scheme.

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Concrete Coffee Table Can Take a Beating

A good coffee table should have a hard-wearing surface and some serious heft to it. This build from [designcoyxe] hits both those criteria with its concrete-based design. To create the table surface, the first step was to create a form. Melamine was used for the job, thanks to its smooth surface. A rectangular form was

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House GOP plans a subcommittee dedicated to crypto oversight, to be chaired by Rep. French Hill, who led GOP efforts to explore a central bank digital currency (Politico)

Politico: House GOP plans a subcommittee dedicated to crypto oversight, to be chaired by Rep. French Hill, who led GOP efforts to explore a central bank digital currency  —  House Republicans will establish a new subcommittee dedicated to cryptocurrency this Congress, a move that puts oversight …

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Working Through It

Photo by Stella Kalinina for The Verge Anna* was looking forward to a trip to the US. But this isn’t what she had in mind. Early this year, Anna was living in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she spent years building a life and career in the tech industry. When her boyfriend moved to the Los Angeles

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This Week in Security: Cacti RCE

This week we start with a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that has potential to be a real pain for sysadmins. Cacti, the system monitoring and graphing solution, has a pair of bugs that chain together to allow an attacker with unauthenticated access to the HTTP/S port to trivially execute bash commands. The first half

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Airbus Begins Testing Autonomous Emergency Flight Tech

(Image: G-R Mottez/Unsplash)If you’ve traveled by plane a handful of times, chances are you’ve been on an Airbus. The aerospace corporation’s planes are some of the most commonly-used commercial aircraft in the world, comparable only with Boeing’s 747 line and Antonov’s An-24. Now, with a project titled DragonFly, there’s a chance Airbus’ passenger jets could

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A bankruptcy judge lets FTX sell its derivatives exchange LedgerX, clearing company Embed, and European and Japanese operations to raise money for creditors (Benjamin Robertson/The Block)

Benjamin Robertson / The Block: A bankruptcy judge lets FTX sell its derivatives exchange LedgerX, clearing company Embed, and European and Japanese operations to raise money for creditors  —  – FTX can begin selling its business units to raise money for creditors, a bankruptcy judge overseeing the case ruled on Thursday.

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