The fifth conference on Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (abbreviated "OSPM") was held on April 17 to 19 in Ancona, Italy. LWN was not there, unfortunately, but the attendees of the event have gotten together to write up summaries of the discussions that took place and LWN has the privilege of being able to publish them. Reports from the second day of the event appear below.

This started me down this journey, some 20 years ago.

Imagining Superintelligence through Light-Speed Brain Processing.

Big companies arent so willing to share proprietary data with startups looking to power their large-language models.

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Data centers in 2023: How to do more with less.

The metaverse was once pure science fiction, an idea of a sprawling online universe born 30 years ago in Neal Stephensons Snow Crash novel. But now its gone through a rebirth as a realistic destination for many industries. And so I asked some people how the metaverse will change data centers in the future.

First, it helps to reach an understanding of what the metaverse internet, or the spatial web, or the 3D web, with a 3D animated foundation that resembles sci-fi movies like Steven Spielbergs Ready Player One.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, openjdk-17, and wireshark), Fedora (iniparser, mariadb, mingw-glib2, perl-HTML-StripScripts, php, python3.7, and syncthing), Oracle (.NET 6.0, c-ares, kernel, nodejs, and python3.9), Slackware (libX11), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent and chromium), and Ubuntu (gsasl, libx11, and sssd).

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In an amendment to his wrongful termination suit, Yintao Yu outlines his alleged witnessing of how ByteDance supplies user data to the CCP:

Yintao "Roger" Yu, a former ByteDance executive based in California, filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging a list of wrongdoings. According to Yu, ByteDance has stolen content from other creators online, discriminated against employees, and inflated its engagement metrics.

A striking allegation Yu made against ByteDance has been highly suspected but yet to be proven. Yu alleges that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the ruling political party in China, can and has accessed TikTok user data.

Yu alleges that the CCP uses ByteDance as a political propaganda tool and cites two examples in which he witnessed ByteDance promote or demote content on TikTok that aligned with the CCP's political goals.

According to the court filings, "Mr. Yu observed that ByteDance has been responsive to the CCP's requests to share information, and even to elevate or remove content at the request of the CCP."

Yu alleges that ByteDance promoted content that expressed hatred for Japan, and in 2018, ByteDance demoted content that expressed support for political protests in Hong Kong. Yu alleges this was possible in Hong Kong because the CCP monitored activists' locations via backdoor data access.

[...] According to Yu's filing, storing US user data on US soil does not mean the CCP cannot access the data, and the only way to ensure China cannot access the data is to shut the backdoor.

[...] TikTok declined to address Yu's allegations, but a ByteDance spokesperson discredited the allegations by mentioning that Yu did not work for TikTok but for Flipagram, another ByteDance-owned app.

ByteDance's spokesperson questioned Yu's intentions by mentioning that Yu was terminated from Flipagram in 2018 and is now coming forward with his allegations.

[...] However, these allegations are found in a wrongful termination lawsuit and do not supply any further evidence, like internal memos or messages. Yu is the first former ByteDance employee to publicly allege that the relationship between ByteDance and the CCP is too close for comfort.

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Lets Encrypt has made an enormous difference to the landscape of the web. The protocol used for authenticating and receiving certificates, ACME, has spawned quite a few clients of various flavors. Some are written in Rust, some in Python or Go, and a few in straight Bash shell script. One of those last ones, acme.sh, was doing something odd when talking to a particular Certificate Authority, HiCA. This pseudo-CA only supports acme.sh, and now we know why. The folks behind HiCA found an RCE exploit in acme.sh, and decided to use that exploit to do certificate issuance with more flexability. Oof.

The nuts and bolts here is that HiCA was working as a CA-in-the-Middle, wrapping other CAs authentication services. Those services dont support ACME authentication at all, and HiCA used the acme.sh vulnerability to put the authentication token in the place SSL.com expected to find it. So, just a good community member offering a service that ACME doesnt quite support, right?

Well, maybe not so innocent. The way it appears this works, is that the end user sends a certificate request to HiCA. HiCA takes that information, and initiates a certificate request off to SSL.com. SSL.com sends back a challenge, and HiCA embeds that challenge in the RCE and sends it to the end user. The end users machine triggers the RCE, which pushes the chall...

The threat actor known as ChamelGang has been observed using a previously undocumented implant to backdoor Linux systems, marking a new expansion of the threat actor's capabilities. The malware, dubbed ChamelDoH by Stairwell, is a C++-based tool for communicating via DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) tunneling. ChamelGang was first outed by Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies in September 2021,

A shrinking company, desperately looking for unauthentic/inauthentic growth (as shareholders might fret)

Summary: There are many further rounds of layoffs at Microsoft or its flailing^* subsidiaries this year and even whole offices get shut down (including a campus in Redmond, Microsoft's heart and centre); today we learned about LinkedIn not only having many further rounds of layoffs (it had gone on for 3 years already); entire offices are shut down (same thing that happened in GitHub, where several rounds of layoffs happened so far this year [1, 2]); Its not a new thing, an associate remarks, but the Microsoft-sponsored media barely bothers covering this (too busy and infatuated with buzzwords/chatbots/hype campaigns for distraction, some allege a valuation pump and dump), which means one comes to rely on estate sites to mention such suppressed facts which matter a lot

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On May 8, Shenzhen citizens found a significant reduction in their social security pension balances. Some peoples accounts even shrunk a third, the most loss reached 120,000 RMB, around 17,000 USD. A wave of public outcry ensued, with aggrieved parties accusing the government of arbitrarily pooling their hard-earned social security funds. The controversy grew to such an extent that the balance inquiry function of the Shenzhen social security system was promptly suspended.

Following in the footsteps of Shanghai, Shenzhen has become the second major city to execute a social security coordination. Between midnight on April 24th, 2023, and 9 am on May 8th, the Shenzhen Social Insurance Information System was suspended to integrate into Guangdong Provinces system, thereby linking to the National Pension Insurance Coordinated Information System for Enterprise Employees. Upon the systems restoration, however, a considerable number of Shenzhen residents were shocked to find that their social security account balances suddenly decreased, with some accounts seeing a drastic 3040% plunge. The whereabouts of these diverted funds remains a mystery.

The governments actions prompted sharp rebuke. Many people criticised the authorities for appropriating funds without prior consent or notification, especially for a matter as important as social security funds. As the public searched for the reason behind this, some people pointed out the precarious state of the existing pension and medical insurance funds, which are very low, and underscored the severe challenges confronting the nation. To mitigate this crisis, the CCP is reportedly exploring various reform measures, including the integration of Shenzhens social security system with that of Guangdong Province, to pool and coordinate the two funds together.

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ETH Zurich researchers have developed a structure that can switch between stable shapes as needed while being remarkably simple to produce. The key lies in a clever combination of base materials.

The developers working on improving the speed of the CPython interpreter have posted a plan describing their objectives for the Python 3.13 release. The biggest piece appears to be the tier-2 optimizer, which will optimize larger chunks of Python code: "https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/557".

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During photosynthesis, a symphony of chemicals transforms light into the energy required for plant, algal, and some bacterial life. Scientists now know that this remarkable reaction requires the smallest possible amount of light just one single photon to begin.

A US team of researchers in quantum optics and biology showed that a lone photon can start photosynthesis in the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, and they are confident it works in plants and algae since all photosynthetic organisms share an evolutionary ancestor and similar processes.

The team says their findings bolster our knowledge of photosynthesis and will lead to a better understanding of the intersection of quantum physics in a wide range of complex biological, chemical, and physical systems, including renewable fuels.

A study offers clues to the link between what the brain of an organism perceives and physical reactions in its body.

Natalia here speaks to our imaginary friend 185.150.184.92

In which we confront the pundits' assumption that the embarrasment-based extortion attempts would grow more sophisticated and credible over time with real data.

It's a problem that should not exist. 

It's a scam that's so obvious it should not work.

Yet we still see a stream of reports about people who have actually gone out and bought their first bitcoins (or more likely fractions of one) in order to pay off blackmailers who claim to have in their possesion videos that record the vicim while performing some autoerotic activity and the material they were supposedly viewing while performing that activity.

And occasionally one of those messages actually find their way to some pundit's inbox (like yours truly), and at times some of those pundits will say things like that those messages represent a real problem and will evolve to be ever more sophisticated. Note: This piece is also available, with nicer formatting but unfortunately also Blogger's trackers, here.

Note: This piece is also available, with more basic formatting but with no trackers, here.

I am here to tell you that

1. That incriminating video does not exist, and
2. The pundits who predicted that those scams would evolve to become more sophisticated were wrong.

If you stumbled on this article because one of those messages reached you, it's safe to not read any further and please do ignore the extortion attempt.

I wrote a piece in 2019 The 'sextortion' Scams: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is A Failure Of Education, also available without trackers, where the summary is,

Every time I see one of those messages reach a mailbox that is actually read by one or more...

Virtana acquired cloud observability platform, OpsCruise, a purpose-built cloud-native, and Kubernetes observability platform. OpsCruises solution empowers ITOps/DevOps/SRE teams to predict performance degradation and pinpoint its cause. This is enabled by the deep understanding of Kubernetes and popular technologies used in modern applications, coupled with OpsCruises unique contextual Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based behavior profiling. OpsCruise solution is also tightly integrated with leading open-source monitoring tools and cloud providers for metrics, logs, traces, flows, More

The post Virtana acquires OpsCruise to help users manage complex modern environments appeared first on Help Net Security.

As Threat Actors Continuously Adapt their TTPs in Todays Threat Landscape, So Must You Earlier this year, threat researchers at Cybersixgill released the annual report, The State of the Cybercrime Underground. The research stems from an analysis of Cybersixgill's collected intelligence items throughout 2022, gathered from the deep, dark and clear web. The report examines the continuous

FreeSync Panel Replay is a new feature for AMD Ryzen laptops with the DCN v3.1.4 display block or newer for helping to reduce power usage when the screen contents are unchanged...

In the three or four decades since storing programs on audio cassettes has been relevant, a lot of irreplaceable personal computing history has been lost to the ravages of time and the sub-optimal conditions in the attics and basements where tapes have been stored. Luckily, over that time weve developed a lot of tools and techniques that might make it possible to recover some of these ancient treasures. But as [Noel] shows us, recovering data from cassette tapes is a tricky business.

His case study for the video below is a tape from a TI-99/4A that wont load. A quick look in Audacity at the audio waveform seems to show the problem an area of severely attenuated signal. Unfortunately, no amount of boosting and filtering did the trick, so [Noel] had to dig a bit deeper. It turns out that the TI tape interface standard, with its redundant data structure, was somewhat to blame for the inability to read this particular tape. As [Noel] explains, each 64-bit data record is recorded to tape twice, along with a header and a checksum. If neither record decodes correctly, then tape playback just stops.

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Progress Software addressed a third vulnerability impacting its MOVEit Transfer application that could lead to privilege escalation and information disclosure.

Progress Software disclosed a new SQL injection vulnerability impacting its MOVEit Transfer application, it is the third issue fixed by the company after:

• CVE-2023-35036 (June 9, 2023)
• CVE-2023-34362 (May 31, 2023)

Progress has discovered a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer that could lead to escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access to the environment. reads the advisory published by Progress. If you are a MOVEit Transfer customer, it is extremely important that you take immediate action as noted below in order to help protect your MOVEit Transfer environment.

To prevent unauthorized access to the installs, the vendor urges customers to immediately apply the following mitigation measures until they are able to apply the June 15th patch (CVE Pending):  
 
1. Disable all HTTP and HTTPs traffic to your MOVEit Transfer environment. Customers have to modify firewall rules to deny HTTP and HTTPs traffic to the software onports 80 and 443. These settings will have the following drawbacks

• Users will not be able to log on to the web UI of their MOVEit Transfer. 
• MOVEit Automation tasks that use the native MOVEit Transfer host will not work 
• REST, Java and .NET APIs will not work 
• MOVEit Transfer add-in for Outlook will not work 

Recently Progress has released security updates to address new SQL injection vulnerabilities in the MOVEit Transfer application. An attacker can exploit the SQL injection vulnerabilities in the MOVEit Transfer solution to steal sensitive information

The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers from the cybersecurity firm Huntress.

The good news is that Progress Software is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting these vulnerabilities.

Recently another MOVEit so...

BSidesLjubljana 0x7E7 is taking place today at the Computer History Museum, and Help Net Security is on site. Heres a look at the event featuring Solar Designer (Openwall), Boris Sieklik (MongoDB), Darko Kukovec (Infinum), and Daniel Poposki.

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Arm and NXP engineers have posted the initial open-source Linux driver patches for an Ethos-U driver for their machine learning processor to enable Linux to dispatch AI inference jobs to the hardware. It's yet another inference/accelerator driver working its way toward the mainline kernel but is off to a rocky start with many code issues being raised...

Twistronics could illuminate a path to superconductivity, revolutionize electronic devices, or perhaps hasten the arrival of quantum computing.

Population aging is the top global demographic trend; the pandemic can teach us how to prepare for it.

Total world population passed the 8 billion milestone on November 15, 2022. The progression from 7 to 8 billion people took a mere 12 years, conjuring up long-standing fears associated with rapid population growth, including food shortages, rampant unemployment, the depletion of natural resources, and unchecked environmental degradation.

But the most formidable demographic challenge facing the world is no longer rapid population growth, but population aging. Thoughtful preparednesscombining behavioral changes, investment in human capital and infrastructure, policy and institutional reforms, and technological innovationscan enable countries to meet the challenge and take advantage of the opportunities presented by demographic change.

While IO_uring has been one of the greatest Linux kernel innovations in recent years for helping to deliver more performant and efficient I/O, it's also been home to various security vulnerabilities. Due to ongoing security issues, this interface for asynchronous I/O is being restricted or outright disabled across Google products...

Im collecting a number of documents on gravitational wave detection and unusual concepts regarding their use by advanced civilizations. Its going to take a while for me to go through all these, but as I mentioned in the last post, I plan to zero in on the intriguing notion that civilizations with abilities far beyond our own might use gravitational waves rather than the electromagnetic spectrum to serve as the backbone of their communication system. Its a science fictional concept for sure, though there may be ways it could be imagined for a sufficiently advanced culture.

For today, though, lets look at a new survey that targets highly unusual planets. Binaries Escorted by Orbiting Planets has an acronym I can get into: BEBOP. It awakens the Charlie Parker in me; I can almost smell the smoky air of a mid-20th century jazz club and hear the clinking of glasses above Parkers stunning alto work. I was thinking about the great sax player because I had just watched, for about the fifth time, Clint Eastwoods superb 1988 film Bird, whose soundtrack is, of course, fabulous.

On the astronomy front, the BEBOP survey is a radial velocity sweep for circumbinary planets, those intriguing worlds, rare but definitely out there, that orbit around two stars in tight binary systems. Beginning in 2013, BEBOP targeted 47 eclipsing binaries, using data from the CORALIE spectrograph on the Swiss Euler Telescope at La Silla, Chile. This is intriguing because what we know about circumbinary planets has largely come from detections based on transit analysis. Radial velocity work has uncovered planets orbiting one star in a wide binary configuration but until now, not both.

Image: Artists visualization of a circumbinary planet. Credit: Ohio State University / Getty Images.

The new work adds data from the HARPS spectrograph at La Silla and the ESPRESSO spectrograph at Paranal to confirm one of two planets at TOI-1338/BEBOP-1. Thus we have radial velocity evidence for the gas giant BEBOP-1 c, massing in the range of 65 Earth masses, in an orbit around the binary of 215 days. A second world, referenced as TOI-1338 b because it shows up only in transit data from TESS...

Im collecting a number of documents on gravitational wave detection and unusual concepts regarding their use by advanced civilizations. Its going to take a while for me to go through all these, but as I mentioned in the last post, I plan to zero in on the intriguing notion that civilizations with abilities far beyond our own might use gravitational waves rather than the electromagnetic spectrum to serve as the backbone of their communication system. Its a science fictional concept for sure, though there may be ways it could be imagined for a sufficiently advanced culture.

For today, though, lets look at a new survey that targets highly unusual planets. Binaries Escorted by Orbiting Planets has an acronym I can get into: BEBOP. It awakens the Charlie Parker in me; I can almost smell the smoky air of a mid-20th century jazz club and hear the clinking of glasses above Parkers stunning alto work. I was thinking about the great sax player because I had just watched, for about the fifth time, Clint Eastwoods superb 1988 film Bird, whose soundtrack is, of course, fabulous.

On the astronomy front, the BEBOP survey is a radial velocity sweep for circumbinary planets, those intriguing worlds, rare but definitely out there, that orbit around two stars in tight binary systems. Beginning in 2013, BEBOP targeted 47 eclipsing binaries, using data from the CORALIE spectrograph on the Swiss Euler Telescope at La Silla, Chile. This is intriguing because what we know about circumbinary planets has largely come from detections based on transit analysis. Radial velocity work has uncovered planets orbiting one star in a wide binary configuration but until now, not both.

Image: Artists visualization of a circumbinary planet. Credit: Ohio State University / Getty Images.

The new work adds data from the HARPS spectrograph at La Silla and the ESPRESSO spectrograph at Paranal to confirm one of two planets at TOI-1338/BEBOP-1. Thus we have radial velocity evidence for the gas giant BEBOP-1 c, massing in the range of 65 Earth masses, in an orbit around the binary of 215 days. A second world, referenced as TOI-1338 b because it shows up only in transit data from TESS...

requerdanos writes:

Scientists hope studying the rare asteroid will provide new insights into our own planet:

Riches beyond our wildest dreams are apparently within reach--at least, within the reach of NASA--in the form of an asteroid made of gold and other metals valued in the neighborhood of ten thousand quadrillion dollars.

[Psyche,] the ultra-valuable asteroidwhich appears to be made largely of iron, nickel, gold and other rare metalsorbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. It measures 140 miles wide and is shaped somewhat like a potato, according to astronomers.

It's been said that Psyche could be worth $10,000 quadrillionmore than the entire economy on our planet.

[...] The Psyche mission would be NASA's first-ever visit to a world rich in metal, rather than rock or ice. The spacecraft is expected to reach [the] asteroid in August 2029[.]

Journal Reference:
Becker, Tracy et. al. HST UV Observations of Asteroid (16) Psyche, The Planetary Science Journal (DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abb67e)

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In November 2018, DISH Network filed a copyright complaint against Jadoo TV, a distributor of self-branded set-top IPTV boxes and later various software apps. DISH also sued Jadoo TV CEO, Sajid Sohail.

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Four-and-a-half years after filing its original complaint, on March 13, 2023, DISH filed a motion for summary judgment. On the same day, Sohail also filed a motion for summary judgment. An order handed down this week by District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer granted DISHs motion and denied Sohails.

In respect of direct infringement, the court found that there is no genuine dispute that DISH owned the copyrighted material, that Defendants violated DISHs exclusive right, that Defendants acted with volition, and that Sohail was personally liable as Jadoos director.

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday unveiled charges against a Russian national for his alleged involvement in deploying LockBit ransomware to targets in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Africa. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 20, of Chechen Republic has been accused of perpetrating at least five attacks between August 2020 and March 2023. He was arrested in the state of Arizona last

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MalwareHunterTeam researchers first shared the hash for a GravityRAT sample via a tweet.

Possible interesting GravityRAT sample: caf0a39318cfc1e65eae773a28de62ce08b7cf1b9d4264e843576165411e2a84@bl4ckh0l3z @LukasStefanko pic.twitter.com/wXyWL9OroH

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GravityRAT was first spotted by Cisco Talos researchers in 2017 who speculate it remained under the radar for at least a couple of years [since 2015].

The GravityRAT malware Access Trojan (RAT) is believed to be the work of Pakistani hacker groups, it was mainly employed in attacks aimed at Indian users.

The BingeChat campaign is still ongoing and is active since August 2022, while the campaign using Chatico is no longer active. The researchers discovered that BingeChat is distributed through a website set up by threat actors to advertise free messaging services. ESET researchers discovered the website bingechat[.]net used to host the sample.

The website used to serve the app requires visitors to log in, but researchers didnt have credentials, and the registration was closed.

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Summary: Today we conclude this weeks series, which explained how Sirius isnt just funded by the British government but is also protected by the British government; HMRC is not responding to fraud reports (sent exactly 4 weeks ago) and Action Fraud, overseen by a client of Sirius (since 2013), does not seem to have even opened the Pension Fraud complaint (it sent a template response after exactly 4 weeks^*)

WHEN we finally reach Tuesday or Wednesday (next week) it will be 4 weeks since my Member of Parliament contacted Action Fraud regarding the pension fraud complaint that Action Fraud is ignoring. Action Fraud has still not bothered responding to her. Im not the sole victim of this fraud. Former colleagues were robbed as well (a lot of money was covertly stolen). For the time being were closing this series and will post another further update/s anew. This isnt the end. This is only the beginning of a rather broad political scandal. Can one trust a government to regulate itself or its contractors? Can one complain to a government about abuse against its own workers? This in many ways resembles the EPO scandals. The EPO even invented its own Ombuds office or EPOs Ombuds service, created and controlled by those who spent over a decade committing crimes at the EPO. Such Ombuds is farcical; its an exercise in optics (giving people out there the mere illusion of accountability).

Gaslighting and/or self-induced defeatism (learned helplessness) is a potent weapon leveraged against the impatient and unmotivated. Were neither impatient nor unmotivated, so this will carry on and on until a resolution is found and the perpetrators of the crime are arrested.
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^* Out of business hours on a weekend. It seems safe to assume no actual person sent that.

Series parts:

1. New Series: The End of Sirius Open Source
2. Sirius Open Source Cannot Retain Staff and Clients (Many of the Remaining Ones Leave the Company)
3. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) Part 3: Action Fraud and Reports of Sirius Fraud
4. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) Part 4: The Pokmon Village of Sirius Open Source and British Government
5. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) Part 5: Whats Left of the Company is a Skeleton Crew (While Police is Dragging Its Heels)
6. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) Part 6: This Scandal Has Become a Lot Bigger Than Sirius Open Source
7. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) Part 7: Six Months After Sirius Open Source Gave the Victims of Its Crimes a Chance to Cool Off
8. Police Out of Control (or Oversight) Part 8: Working as Contractor for the Public Sector While Defrauding and Stealing From Staff
9. YOU ARE HERE Waiting for Godot

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Series parts:

1. New Series: Inside the Real Linux Foundation
2. What the 2022 Tax Filing (From 7 Months Ago, for Tax Year 2021) Teaches Us About the Linux Foundation
3. The Real Linux Foundation Part 3: How It Splits Into Subgroups, Including New Ones
4. The Real Linux Foundation Part 4: How the Foundation Makes Its Money
5. The Real Linux Foundation Part 5: The Annual Cost of the Office Has Jumped to Almost 8 Million Dollars for Just 261 Employees (About $30,000 Per Employee Per Year)
6. The Real Linux Foundation Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities
7. The Real Linux Foundation Part 7: Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft)
8. The Real Linux Foundation Part 8: Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)
9. The Real Linux Foundation Part 9: Use of Contractors Soared From 12 to 29 in Just Three Years, Value of Contracts Has Gone Up by a Lot
10. YOU ARE HERE An International Collaboration Organisation (for International Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the...

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This year, against the backdrop of attacks on everyone from healthcare institutions and schools to financial services organizations, as well as the introduction of legislation across the UK and EU to move security up the agenda, cybersecurity has undoubtedly become more of a priority for boards. As these breaches continue to make headlines, the time is now for boardroom executives to take on the responsibility of setting the tone for cybersecurity across the company. After More

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[Hack Club] is a nonprofit network of coder and maker clubs for teenage high school students around the world. With an impressive reach boasting clubs in about 400 schools, they serve approximately 10,000 students. Their OnBoard program asserts, Circuit boards are magical. You design one, well print it!

Any teenage high school student can apply for a [Hack Club] OnBoard Grant to have their Printed Circuit Board design fabricated into real hardware.  The process starts by designing a PCB using any tool that can generate Gerber files. The student then publishes their design on GitHub and submits the Gerber files to a PCB manufacturer.

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Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem:

The sky is rapidly filling with fast-moving satellites reflecting sunlight and zapping astronomers' detectors. It is, after all, exceedingly difficult to see faint galaxies in the distant cosmos when someone is shining a flashlight down your telescope.

The biggest culprit is SpaceX, which has launched a massive and growing fleet of Starlink Internet satellites since 2018. Of the more than 7,500 total working satellites in orbit around the Earth, over 3,900 are Starlinksmeaning more than half of the birds circling our planet fly the SpaceX flag.

These satellites are already menacing astronomy. Many telescopes, especially those doing wide-angle surveys of the sky to search for Earth-threatening asteroids, are seeing observations ruined by bright satellites streaking across their field of view. If not caught, these can cause false positives: things at first assumed to be real but that can take exhaustive efforts to discover are not. This will only get worse as more Starlinks are flown; 12,000 are planned, and SpaceX has filed paperwork for an additional 30,000 beyond that. If this comes to pass, the sky will be filled with satellites zipping across it.

But, in a potential irony, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that the cause of this woe may also be its cure. The company is currently testing its huge Starship rocket, which, if it works as planned, will have the capability to launch extremely large and heavy payloads. This, Musk said, can be used to send large telescopes into space above the fleet of Starlink s...