Penticton first in British Columbia to offer free transit to riders 24 and under

New project serves as among the city’s new safety initiatives

https://www.vicnews.com/news/penticton-first-in-bc-to-offer-free-transit-to-riders-24-and-under-7329736

#transit #free #Penticton #bcpoli #PublicTransit

Not worried enough about corporate over-development of orbit yet? New article: companies have now filed asking for a total of ONE MILLION satellites: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi4639

Non-paywalled version here: https://www.outerspaceinstitute.ca/docs/One%20million%20(paper)%20satellites%20-%20Accepted%20Version%20.pdf

There is no way we can have anywhere near one million satellites in orbit without going into full Kessler Syndrome and destroying everything in orbit - making satellite science, communication, and interplanetary exploration impossible for decades.

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Chandrayaan-3: Nasa's lunar orbiter photographs India's Moon lander Vikram - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66725852

#SpaceExploration #Chandrayaan3

You've probably never heard of "16Shop," but there's a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you.

Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. INTERPOL said authorities in Indonesia arrested the 21-year-old proprietor and one of his alleged facilitators, and that a third suspect was apprehended in Japan.

It is not uncommon for cybercriminals to accidentally infect their own machines with password-stealing malware, and that is exactly what seems to have happened with one of the more recent administrators of 16Shop.

Constella Intelligence, a data breach and threat actor research platform, now allows users to cross-reference popular cybercrime websites and denizens of these forums with inadvertent malware infections by information-stealing trojans. A search in Constella on 16Shop’s domain name shows that in mid-2022, a key administrator of the phishing service infected their Microsoft Windows desktop computer with the Redline information stealer trojan — apparently by downloading a cracked (and secretly backdoored) copy of Adobe Photoshop.

Redline infections steal gobs of data from the victim machine, including a list of recent downloads, stored passwords and authentication cookies, as well as browser bookmarks and auto-fill data.

More:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/08/karma-catches-up-to-global-phishing-service-16shop/

You Don't Want to Be Within 160 Light-Years of a Supernova

When massive stars die and explode as supernovae, they can put out an incredible amount of energy. It's pretty to look at from a safe distance, but getting too close is dangerous. According to new evidence gathered by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, supernovae can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can trigger an extinction event on a planet within 160 light-years. Don't worry, there aren't any supernova candidates within that distance, but they've likely happened in our planet's ancient past.

https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2023/4snr/

When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.

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#twittermigration #TermsOfService #PrivacyPolicy #ContentLicense

You’re already here so you don’t need selling on Mastodon’s bona fides, but, regardless, this @glennf piece might, I dunno, convince your friends to take the plunge?

https://tidbits.com/2023/01/27/mastodon-a-new-hope-for-social-networking/