How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub's meteoric rise

Cut off one head, two more grow back in its place RansomHub, the ransomware collective that emerged earlier this year, quickly gained momentum, outpacing its criminal colleagues and hitting its victims especially hard. The group named and shamed hundreds of organizations on its leak site, while demanding e…
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'Elf Girl | 3D Character Art' by Vini Cavalcanti

https://blenderartists.org/t/elf-girl-3d-character-art/1563344?mtm_kwd=mastodon

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Amüsant, spannend, absurd und visuell gelungen: Der Polizeiruf „Jenseits des Rechts“. Und endlich ist es keine Frau, die Opfer einer Gewalttat wird.

Moskau schottet das Land ab, dennoch nehmen die Leaks von Staatsdokumenten an Medien zu. Sie behandeln etwa Russlands Umgang mit entführten ukrainischen Kindern.

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

— Edward V. Berard

#specification

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Eine lange Reise ans Ende der tausendundeinen Nacht – auf der Suche nach der geheimnisvollen Stadt, die ganz aus Schokolade ist wie Thomas Gottschalk.

Fußballer Mo Salah zeigt sich mit der Familie vor einem Weihnachtsbaum und wird danach angefeindet. Was ist da eigentlich los?

Die neuen syrischen Machthaber vom Milizenbündnis HTS gelten in Deutschland noch als Terroristen. Bundesjustizminister Volker Wissing wartet noch ab.

Die Vorwürfe gegen Nenad Nešić beziehen sich auf seine Tätigkeit bei einem staatlichen Bauunternehmen. Aus der serbischen Teilrepublik kommt Kritik.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

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The Bishop's Wife is a much better film than It's A Wonderful Life. And a better Christmas film too. And a better Jimmy Stewart film. It's just a better film. Shit title though.

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Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner Feature Remember the excitement of leafing through a catalog for home computer bargains? Or perhaps gazing longingly at festive tech displays in Britain's WH Smith (or ComputerLand if you lived Stateside)? Take a step back to 1984 and the last great hurrah of …
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Initial conditions:
m1=85.3 m2=62.6 m3=21.4 (solar masses)
v1x=-5.874 v1y=1.685 v2x=-1.419 v2y=-5.621 v3x=-3.741 v3y=-6.156 (km/s)
x1=21.0 y1=-25.0 x2=-21.0 y2=0.0 x3=9.0 y3=-5.0 (AU from center)
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TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-arizona

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525384

⚡️Drone strike damages railway line in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, governor claims. Debris from an intercepted drone damaged the contact network of a railway in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast overnight on Dec. 28, regional Governor Alexander Gusev alleged. https://kyivindependent.com/drone-strike-damages-railway-line-in-russias-voronezh-oblast-governor-claims/

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[2024/12/28 02:49]

⚡️North Korean troops suffer over 1,000 losses in Kursk Oblast in past week, White House says. “It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable,” National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said. https://kyivindependent.com/north-korean-troops-endure-mass-casualties-in-russias-war-against-ukraine-john-kirby-says/

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[2024/12/28 05:43]

⚡️Slovakia threatens to cut electricity supplies if Ukraine ends Russian gas transit. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on Dec. 27 that his government will evaluate potential reciprocal measures against Ukraine, including halting electricity supplies, if Ukraine stops the transit of Russian gas to Slovakia after January 1. https://kyivindependent.com/slovakia-threatens-to-cut-electricity-supplies-if-ukraine-ends-russian-gas-transit/

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[2024/12/28 00:28]

⚡️US to send $1.25 billion in military aid to Ukraine, AP reports. The upcoming aid package is expected to include a substantial supply of air defense munitions, along with Stinger missiles and artillery rounds, according to U.S. officials. https://kyivindependent.com/us-to-send-1-25-billion-in-military-aid-to-ukraine-on-monday/

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