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A joint statement 'on the recent significant cyber incident involving federal government networks' was just released by @CISA, @FBI, @ODNI, and @NSA — and their phrasing suggests the attack is still ongoing. 'This work indicates that an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)...

Every year Jon Lebkowsky and Bruce Sterling have an open discussion on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link about the state of the world. This year they are joined by Malka Older, a 'writer, aid worker, and sociologist.' Older: If a lot of Big Tech is starting to lose its...

'It's a mass-spreader event! It's a mass-spreader event!' — Trump rally speaker Whew. At a pro-Trump rally happening in Washington, DC right now, one of the speakers (identified as a pastor?) just told the attendees to make the MAGA rally a 'mass spreader event' by hugging ...

I have a penchant for odd, tiny museums, cabinets of curiosity that reflect a curator's outré passion. In that vein, Fodor's Travel selected '15 Bizarre Museums to Add to Your Next U.S. Road Trip.' I was delighted to see that my old friend Loren Coleman's International...

The Guardian reports that a U.S. military plane will fly Trump to Scotland so he can play golf while President Biden is inaugurated. But The Independent reports that Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon is warning Individual 1 to stay away. — Read the rest

This ancient Roman slab of marble, inscribed in Greek, was found in a Whiteparish, England home garden (image below). Nobody knows how it got there. Now it's up for auction with a pre-sale estimate of £15,000, and the auctioneers at Woolley and Wallis are seeking help to...

The Great Gatsby was one of many works that entered the public domain on January 1, 2020. This Standard Ebooks edition is the first public domain edition I know of. The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers. — Read...

So this year is starting off great. (Yes, that's sarcasm.) My first novel, The Element of Fire was published in 1993 by Tor Books, long before ebooks. When it went out of print I finally was able to self-publish an ebook edition in 2006, when I really needed the income. —...

If your sense of Beatles completionism includes owning Rutles studio recording outtakes and the entire Zapple Records catalog, then you need OpenAI Jukebox's new album generated in the style of The Beatles.

Unclack is a MacOS utility that automatically mutes your mic when you start typing, and unmutes it when you stop. This prevents other people on online meetings knowing that you are using your computer when you should be pretending to listen. — Read the rest

Florida governor Ron 'Rona' DeSantis allowed his state to become a chaotic deathtrap durning the pandemic. And apparently, he wants it to stay that way because he is doing everything he can to prevent Floridians from getting the vaccine. Watch this testy exchange between...

To mark the 75th anniversary of HG Wells's death, the UK's Royal Mint issued a £2 coin featuring one of the iconic Martian machines from the 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. In the story, Wells described the fighting machine as a 'monstrous tripod, higher than many...