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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
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Killing the lawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoO0ZhzZT7g

Planted and mulched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anpuSnAM5o8

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has seized 240 fraudulent websites associated with an Egypt-based cybercrime facilitator. Abanoub Nady (known online as “MRxC0DER”) developed and sold “do it yourself” phish kits and fraudulently used the brand name “ONNX” to sell these services. Numerous cybercriminal and online threat actors purchased these kits and used them in widespread phishing campaigns to bypass additional security measures and break into Microsoft customer accounts. While all sectors are at risk, the financial services industry has been heavily targeted given the sensitive data and transactions they handle. In these instances, a successful phish can have devastating real-world consequences for the victims. It can result in the loss of significant amounts of money, including life savings, which, once stolen, can be very difficult to recover.

credit to @hausofdecline

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33445926

Tell the boss class what's really up.

[alt text: a photo of two kids sliding down two separate playground slides (chutes) that are side-by-side but end in the same place. The left slide is captioned: "Being a slacker at work". The right side is captioned: "Being the go-to-guy at work". The bottom part where the slides meet is labeled: "No raises".]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22759126

New version 24.3 of the Mesa opensource 3D graphics library and drivers has been released. New features:

• Expose Vulkan 1.3 on v3dv, both rpi4 and rpi5
• VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer on nvk
• VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage on nvk
• VK_KHR_video_maintenance1 on radv
• VK_EXT_legacy_vertex_attributes on nvk
• GL_KHR_shader_subgroup on radeonsi
• VK_KHR_maintenance7 on nvk
• VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read on nvk
• GL_ARB_timer_query on Panfrost
• GL_EXT_disjoint_timer_query on Panfrost
• VK_KHR_pipeline_binary on RADV
• VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on anv
• VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives on nvk
• VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on nvk
• VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on radv
• VK_KHR_shader_relaxed_extended_instruction on anv, hasvk, hk, nvk, radv, tu, v3dv, lvp
• GL_OVR_multiview and GL_OVR_multiview2 on zink
• VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 on radv
• VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 on nvk
• VK_EXT_device_generated_commands on nvk, radv
• VK_EXT_host_image_copy on nvk/Turing+
• VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control on anv, hasvk, nvk, radv
• VK_KHR_shader_quad_control on nvk
• GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 on etnaviv/HALTI5+
• GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend on etnaviv/HALTI5+
• VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate on NVK
• GL_ARB_draw_indirect on etnaviv/HALTI5+
• VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one on NVK
• GL_ARB_framebuffer_no_attachments on etnaviv

In a meeting on Oct. 8 with Colombia’s ambassador to Washington, Biden administration officials confirmed that the U.S. government helped facilitate the acquisition of Pegasus to use in Colombia. According to the ambassador’s statements to the press following the meeting, $11 million in cash from the U.S. government was used to purchase the software to target drug cartel leaders in Colombia in 2021 and 2022.

The Biden administration “assured us that the software was never given to the Colombian authorities,” the ambassador said. Rather, it was the Colombian authorities that decided who the “targets of the interceptions” would be, with additional “supervision by North American authorities” to purportedly ensure they were directed at leaders of drug-trafficking groups.

The timeline of the purchase and use of Pegasus overlaps with a particularly turbulent time in Colombia. A social movement had begun protesting against Duque, while in the countryside, Colombia’s security forces were killing or arresting major guerrilla and cartel leaders. At the time, Petro, the first left-wing president in the country’s recent history, was campaigning for the presidency.

A product of the Israeli tech firm NSO Group, Pegasus is a nearly undetectable hacking program capable of monitoring phone calls, messages, and microphone and camera activity, as well as a user’s location.

Kara is self-conscious about his white splotches and wants to know if he counts. He thinks this flex will help you decide.

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