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Microsoft Faces Cybersecurity Scandal: Suspected Leak Let Chinese Hackers Exploit SharePoint

A Growing Crisis in Microsoft’s Security Chain Microsoft, long seen as a global leader in enterprise software and cybersecurity, now finds itself at the center of a brewing storm. A serious vulnerability in its SharePoint server software—one of the most widely used tools for workplace collaboration—was reportedly exploited by Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups, even before…

https://undercodenews.com/microsoft-faces-cybersecurity-scandal-suspected-leak-let-chinese-hackers-exploit-sharepoint/

Mr. Bitterness Jul 23

Apparently Blueland decided to reformulate their foaming soap tablets for 2025 in a way that permanently destroys the pumps in automatic soap dispensers. After my tried and true dispenser (that has been using Blueland for years) bit the dust, I bought a new (different model) replacement and it barely lasted more than a week.

Does anyone have a favorite foaming soap product that works well and doesn't come in plastic jugs?

Mr. Bitterness Jul 23

Garden curiosity:

As it turns out, pepper plants can cross-polinate and while that plant's fruit will be completely normal, if you plant the seeds from that cross-polinated pepper, the resulting pepper plant will be a hybrid.

I had weird peppers after planting seeds harvested from my peppers once before, and I merely shrugged it off as an anomaly. (It was old seeds scrounged from a pepper mill I used for food). But now that it very distinctly happened again, I decided to dig into it.

This is the offspring of a small sweet lunchbox pepper combined with a mystery gene donator. Given that the pepper is hot, I'll say that the other party was either a Chinese 5-color pepper (small, multi-colored) or a Matchbox (very small, red) pepper.

Expecting a small sweet lunchbox pepper, I took a bite of this suspiciously larger pepper and was surprised by a blast of heat! I suppose I'll never know what it actually is.

So yeah, I suppose I've been operating in the mindset of "Plant seeds from <thing_I_grew> and you get another instance of <thing_I_grew>" But now I know this to not be the case! <mindblown.gif>

Mr. Bitterness Jul 23

Marcus Hutchins

Jul 23

The part I still don't understand is a large portion of the internet monetizes traffic via Google Adsense. By replacing search with a chatbot, thereby encouraging people not to visit websites, they're cannibalizing their own revenue sources in a way that they'll never be able to recoup with AI. Not really sure what Google's endgame is here.
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

404 Media

Mr. Bitterness Jul 23

NGL... Super Sauce tomatoes are kind of ridiculous.

Mr. Bitterness Jul 20

Natasha Jay Jul 19

I wish someday to be half as happy as this turtle on a skateboard, chasing a cat ...

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Mr. Bitterness Jul 14

In my case, I had a $10 coupon to burn.
The single item wasn't accepted because $9.99 is coincidentally (😂) less than $10.
I'll just get a "two pack", I figured.
Oh...
Two single packs it is...

Mr. Bitterness Jul 14

Shopping online for <thing>...
Single item: $9.99
2-pack: $29.99
3-pack: $49.99

Sellers at this point are clearly banking on the idea that customers don't know a single thing about math and that they are assuming that you save money buying bulk, without thinking.