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    Dealing with a ransomware attack..

    That afternoon, with the attack’s impact becoming apparent, the city manager of Vernon emailed colleagues about a “ransom type” virus affecting the police department. The city near the Oklahoma state line could get back online by paying the $2.5 million the hackers were demanding, he wrote, but that was “obviously” not the plan.

    “Holy moly!!!!!” replied city commissioner Pam Gosline, now the mayor.

    The culprits were affiliated with REvil, the Russia-linked syndicate that last spring extorted $11 million from meat-processor JBS and more recently was behind a Fourth of July weekend attack that crippled businesses around the globe. In the Texas case, however, communities were ultimately able to recover most of their data and rebuild their systems without anyone paying ransom.
    https://apnews.com/article/technolog...3c1bd6cee5aef7

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    A friend works at Northup-Grumman and took us to the the Webb telescope about six weeks ago. The thought and work that went into it is mind-boggling. A million and one things have to go perfectly for it to work. If only a million things go right it'll be a very expensive failure.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...zy6PmOFHuVviN8

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    One about modern day book thieves ...


    For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?
    https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/stea...e-mystery.html

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    Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is on trial right now.

    Here's a story to remind you there are countless fraudsters, cons, and liars out there in all different shapes, sizes and industries.

    https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/longform/half-baked


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    Thought he was more positive on America.

    https://www.economist.com/by-invitat...ELGiPQQfJNigAo


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    Quote Originally Posted by huja:
    Okay, I'm going to let you peek at my homework/book report. Fan Bingbing getting busted is not so much about Fan Bingbing getting busted. It's more that the Xi/CCP has reached some sort of tipping point that's hard put your finger on. It's the fear and chaos that an entire industry - movie (and perhaps country) feels when someone as big as her gets slapped down. The formally understood grey-area where rich/powerful/famous Chinese could be more equal (to borrow George Orwell's phrase from Animal Farm) than other Chinese has been redrawn or maybe even done away with.
    Fan Bing Bing was a harbinger of things to come.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/b...usinesses.html

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    A good one, it you want to find out more about mammoths than you normally would care about.

    These mammoths came from Eurasia 1.5 million years ago and did so by marching across the Bering Strait, which wasn’t covered by water like it is today. Hundreds of thousands of years later, another species of mammoth, the woolly mammoth, also crossed the Bering Strait and joined their cousins in North America.

    The two hybridized to produce the Columbian mammoth, but no one knows exactly when. A recent study estimated that the hybridization event occurred at least 420,000 years ago, but more research is needed to confirm this.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/s...usk-ocean.html

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