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I will unofficially update this website on random dates within any random time interval.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Two Active Directory Bugs Lead to Easy Windows Domain Takeover



Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12.

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YT Mob Announces It Is "Taking a Break" From World Cup Racing 14



All great things must end, it's time to pause the chapter with @The YT Mob as you know it. Over the years we've celebrated success with the World's best, developed #youngtalent, and shared plenty of #goodtimes!

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Coal Miners Union to Joe Manchin: Stop Sucking



Outside Congressional Republicans and dirty energy CEOs, basically everyone is mad at Sen. Joe Manchin for announcing he was a “no” on the Build Back Better Act. That includes coal miners.

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How is Zero Trust Evolving to be More Continuous in Verifying Trust?



Question: How is Zero Trust evolving to be more continuous in nature in verifying trust?

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Monday, December 13, 2021

Missouri Ditches Covid-19 Measures After Court Ruling, Cease-And-Desist from Attorney General



Multiple health departments in Missouri have abandoned most or all of their covid-19 tracking and prevention work after a recent court ruling stripped state and local public health agencies of their powers to establish disease prevention measures. On Dec.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Cox discloses data breach after hacker impersonates support agent



Cox Communications has disclosed a data breach after a hacker impersonated a support agent to gain access to customers' personal information.

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IT pros see zero trust as a key element of security strategy



A new survey of over 1,000 IT security professionals finds that 75 percent of organizations recognize zero trust as being important to bolstering their overall cybersecurity posture.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Willfully unvaccinated should pay 100% of COVID hospital bills, lawmaker says



People who choose to remain unvaccinated and subsequently become severely ill with COVID-19 should be responsible for paying the entirety of their hospital bills out of pocket, according to Illinois Representative Jonathan Carroll.

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Benchmarks: Huge AI And Gaming Gains For Next-Gen Android Flagships



Qualcomm recently announced a new flagship mobile chipset for next-gen Android devices, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which also kicks off a rebrand of the Snapdragon platform.

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The Problem With Earth’s Striking New ‘Black Box’



A monolithic data storage site and art installation called “Earth’s Black Box” is slated for construction in Australia. Akin to a flight recorder, the device is meant to chronicle Earth’s journey toward environmental destruction, but it likely won’t have much of an impact.

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Debunking





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Monday, December 6, 2021

Kevin Feige Says Charlie Cox Is the MCU's Daredevil, But What Does That Mean?



The upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home tells the story of how Peter Parker and Doctor Strange accidentally mess up their reality by breaking open the multiverse.

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Quantum processor swapped in for a neural network



It's become increasingly clear that quantum computers won't have a single moment when they become clearly superior to classical hardware. Instead, we're likely to see them becoming useful for a narrow set of problems and then gradually expand out from there to an increasing range of computations.

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Saturday, December 4, 2021

Microsoft reverses Windows 11's annoying default browser setting changes



Microsoft has reversed a Windows 11 design change that made it highly annoying to change the default browser used by the operating system. Previously, web browsers could configure themselves as the default browser by modifying the Windows Registry.

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