Month: October 2021
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories: US winter surge comes into focus, Russia worsens, 25 million Americans estimated to have long covid, meatpacking plants lied about infections, vaccines for kids over 5 are on the… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, the number one curated collection of privacy and infosec news for today’s modern final girl. This week: Facebook’s disgusting secrets continue to spill, January 6 organizers snitched out members of Congress, Distributed Denial of Secrets got profiled, the dirty deets on ISPs selling our info, Oculus… Read more…
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San Francisco: New Infections by Vaccination Status
Originally published on Patreon. On Saturday the city and county of San Francisco’s government website did an update on its Covid-19 cases and deaths page, “New cases by vaccination status.” The section shows 7-day average case rates per 100,000 residents, and states it does not include data for cases in partially vaccinated individuals. I usually… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories: The variant has a variant – a Delta subtype is raising alarms, UK government rejects doctors’ pleas while everything worsens, Russia readies for lockdown, big US news for mix-and-match… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, a weekly reminder that some people take the phrase “send in the clowns” too literally. This week: Missouri Governor Mike Parson vows to prosecute use of the F12 key, a kid exploits IoT to RickRoll an entire school district, ATM skimmer operators get busted, ShotSpotter is… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories: Lots of Johnson & Johnson news, data on mix-and-match booster effectiveness, the UK pandemic response is officially an avoidable catastrophe, US covid declines to still-frightening levels, Nevada is up… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, in which we all know better but descend into infosec’s creepy dark basement alone anyway. This week: A Navy nuclear submarine engineer was busted trying to sell secrets in sandwich spread, Twitch was hacked so hard our heads are still spinning, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan… Read more…
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Pandemic Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories: US deaths exceed every foreign conflict in history, Delta is the only airline that won’t vax, Russia loses control of the pandemic, George Clooney tells unvaccinated co-stars to stop… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Welcome to the Cybersecurity Roundup, where it’s always Cybersecurity Unawareness Month. This week: Facebook is as incompetent in thinking its own technical decisions through as it is in basic human decency, Anonymous brightens the week with more Epik hack dumps and the Texas GOP’s digital secrets, ransomware did a murder, the… Read more…
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How to have fun in S.F. during COVID without behaving like you’re in Florida
Originally posted on SF Chronicle. By Charles Lewis IIIUpdated San Francisco Mayor London Breed (standing left) watches Raphael Saadiq and D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Toné! perform at the Black Cat in San Francisco on Sept. 15. Mariecar Mendoza/The Chronicle The last time I went to the movies was for an advanced screening of “The… Read more…