Versatile Arsenal and Everton striker who went on to become a popular football commentator
The footballer Kevin Campbell, who has died aged 54 after a short illness, won a league title, the FA Cup, a League Cup and the European Cup Winners’ Cup over a four-year period from 1990 until 1994 with Arsenal, the club he had supported, and joined, as a boy.
As a striker he scored eight times in 10 matches during the second half of the Division One championship in 1991, and during the victorious 1993–94 European Cup Winners’ Cup campaign he contributed four important goals across the knockout stages, including one in the semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain.
My first and only proper relationship ended the day after Princess Diana died. There followed years of dalliances and situationships, before I realised something crucial about myself
Sometimes a meme can change your life. OK, your love life, let’s not get Carrie’d away. It was about 3am; I was in bed with two empty Gü Zillionaire ramekins and my favourite hot-water bottle (yes, I have a favourite), and zombie-scrolling TikTok. A Sex and the City clip appeared. The one that says: “He’s just not that into you.”
I’d obviously seen it before, years ago when the show came out, but I hadn’t seen it since. So I didn’t swipe. I watched – for old times’ sake. And it blew my mind. You remember? Miranda is telling Carrie and Charlotte about her previous night’s almost-encounter: asking for their theories about a date who “didn’t come up” because he said he had an early meeting.
The Oklahoma City Council (NPR) voted this week (NYT gift) to clear the way for the 1,907 foot (Popular Science) Legends Tower (Master Design Statement .pdf), which would be the tallest building in the US. It may be 'impropable' (Architectural Record), a 'PR stunt' (NPR station KOSU), or even 'sheer fantasy' (OKC Free Press), especially (The Oklahoman) in a state that has seen 103 tornadoes (National Weather Service) in 2024. It would definitely be expensive--developers (developers' site) say they have $1b in financing lined up.
When used to generate power or move vehicles, fossil fuels kill people. Particulates and ozone resulting from fossil fuel burning cause direct health impacts, while climate change will act indirectly. Regardless of the immediacy, premature deaths and illness prior to death are felt through lost productivity and the cost of treatments.
Typically, you see the financial impacts quantified when the EPA issues new regulations, as the health benefits of limiting pollution typically dwarf the costs of meeting new standards. But some researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have now done similar calculations—but focusing on the impact of renewable energy. Wind and solar, by displacing fossil fuel use, are acting as a form of pollution control and so should produce similar economic benefits.
Do they ever. The researchers find that, in the US, wind and solar have health and climate benefits of over $100 for every Megawatt-hour produced, for a total of a quarter-trillion dollars in just the last four years. This dwarfs the cost of the electricity they generate and the total of the subsidies they received.
nothing, except everything. - "filmed throughout my last year of high school — to nothing and everything we feel."[1,2]
via Screentime [ungated]: "Have you heard of Wesley Wang? The 19-year-old filmmaker is adapting his viral video into a movie for Darren Aronofsky and Sony. YouTube stars Colin & Samir broke down this story (with a little help from me)."
also btw...
Master of Make-Believe [archive] - "Zach Horwitz thrived in Los Angeles—where, as one acquaintance said, 'the more you fake it, the more people actually buy it.'"
In Horwitz's fantasies, you hear echoes of the long tradition of American artifice: of Napoleon Hill, who wrote in "Think and Grow Rich" that "whatever the mind of men can conceive and believe, it can achieve," and of the clergyman Norman Vincent Peale, who declared, "As you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become"—a principle impressed on a young real-estate scion named Donald Trump when his family attended Peale's sermons. At times, this tendency still seems strong enough to overwhelm the systems that we've developed to punish it. Even after Elizabeth Holmes was convicted, she voiced a belief that lies are just a stop on the way to truth. Asked what she thought would've happened if she had not courted so much attention, she told an interviewer, "We would've seen through our vision."
Movie Monologues That Changed My Entire Worldview - "The famous monologue at the end of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator for example, which was released well over 80 years ago in 1940, may as well have been written yesterday."[3]
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish...
The Great Flattening - "In short, the analog world was defined by scarcity, which meant distribution of scarce goods was the locus of power; the digital world is defined by abundance, which means discovery of what you actually want to see is the locus of power. The result is that consumers have access to anything, which is to say that nothing is special; everything has been flattened."
All of Hollywood, convinced that content was what mattered, jointly killed the linear TV model to ensure that all professionally-produced content was available on-demand, even as YouTube became the biggest streamer of all with user-generated content that is delivered through the exact same distribution channel (apps on a smart device) as the biggest blockbusters.
What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | Harvey Mudd Commencement Speech 2024 - "For those in the audience who don't know who I am, I focus on making videos about mathematics with an emphasis on visualizations. It's a weird job. I do love it though, and it's no exaggeration to describe it as a dream job. And a common cliché is for someone who is lucky enough to land in a dream job, to stand confidently in front of a group of fledgling graduates, and to compel them to follow their dreams. Frankly, on its own, I don't think this is very good advice."[4]
I don't know if you felt it yet, but today marks a day in your life when a fundamental goal changes. When you're a student, the fundamental goal is to grow, to learn, to become better. So many institutions and structures around you are there to support you in growing and learning and getting better and to reward you for doing so. In life after college, the goal changes a little, and success hinges on how effectively you're able to add value to others.
Johansson has alleged that OpenAI hired a soundalike to steal her likeness and confirmed that she declined to provide the Sky voice. Experts have said that Johansson has a strong case should she decide to sue OpenAI for violating her right to publicity, which gives the actress exclusive rights to the commercial use of her likeness.
Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it.
Kansas City faced significant disruptions following a cyberattack, particularly affecting its crucial KC Scout camera system, which monitors Metro highways. The Kansas City cyberattack, occurring over the weekend of May 4, 2024, resulted in widespread system shutdowns, leaving various services offline for an extended period.As a consequence of the attack, the KC Scout camera system, maintained by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, suffered extensive downtime, potentially lasting for months.
Kansas City Cyberattack Shuts Down Major Operations
This outage directly impacted crash investigations, as authorities relied heavily on the video footage captured by these cameras. Without this vital resource, the investigative process for accidents became considerably more challenging, particularly in cases with potential criminal implications.
Furthermore, the broader implications of the cyberattack extended to essential city services, such as online bill payments and building permits, which remained unavailable nearly two weeks after the initial incident. Despite efforts to restore these services, the city faced logistical issues in bringing systems back online promptly.Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas acknowledged the challenges posed by the cyberattack, emphasizing the city's commitment to conducting a thorough investigation while striving to restore services efficiently. Despite the setbacks, essential services such as emergency response, wastewater treatment, and trash pickup remained operational, ensuring minimal disruption to residents' daily lives.
"Last week, the city became aware of suspicious activity on our IT network. In response, we proactively shut down parts of the network to secure our systems. This proactive measure resulted in outages to certain operations but was necessary to help to protect the security and integrity of our systems — and to allow us to further our investigation into the cause and potential impact of the issue", said Lucas.
Cyberattack on Kansas City is Impacting Citizens
The impact of the cyberattack reverberated beyond administrative inconveniences, affecting individuals like Leia Sanders, whose car accident on May 10 highlighted the critical role of KC Scout cameras. Sanders, involved in a collision on Highway 71, discovered that the outage of the surveillance system hindered efforts to determine the accident's cause, leaving her without crucial evidence for insurance purposes, reported Fox 4 Kansas City.
“I had no time to do anything, there were cars on both sides of me. I just sat there and was like okay, this has to happen. “After I figured out what was wrong with my car, I called the police department to ask about any cameras that would be on the interstate. They told me that the KC Scout cameras are down right now and there was no way that we could figure out where the tire had come from or anything like that,” Sanders said.
The prolonged downtime of the KC Scout cameras elicited frustration among residents and visitors alike, prompting questions about the delay in restoring critical infrastructure. With the timeline for service restoration extending into months, concerns regarding public safety and efficient accident response mechanisms loomed large.As authorities work tirelessly to address the aftermath of the cyberattack, residents are urged to remain patient and vigilant. Despite the challenges posed by the disruption, efforts to restore normalcy are underway, with a concerted focus on bolstering cybersecurity measures to prevent future incidents of this nature.Media Disclaimer: This report is based on internal and external research obtained through various means. The information provided is for reference purposes only, and users bear full responsibility for their reliance on it. The Cyber Express assumes no liability for the accuracy or consequences of using this information.
Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but he was passed over. On Sunday, he finally made it on a Blue Origin flight.
Edward Dwight was one of six people who went to space aboard the Mission NS-25 crew capsule from Blue Origin on Sunday. Upon exiting, he raised his arm and said, “Long time coming.”
A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-and-death decisions in a high-tech age.
Nancy Dubler, director of the bioethics division at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, spoke in 2005 with Fred Haber, who was at his wife’s bedside after a mediation session.
A psychiatrist, he ran New York-Presbyterian after a landmark merger, improving its patient care and finances and raising money to expand its footprint across the region.
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
Flowers for Karon Blake, 13, who was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., in January 2023. Gun-related deaths were two to four times higher among Black and Native American youth than among white youth.
Myriam Rogers, superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, speaking about the arrest of Dazhon Darien, the athletic director of Pikesville High.
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JetBrains issued a warning on March 4, 2024 about two serious vulnerabilities in TeamCity server. The flaws can be used by a remote, unauthenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity on-premises server to bypass authentication checks and gain administrative control of the TeamCity server.
TeamCity is a build management and continuous integration and deployment server from JetBrains that allows developers to commit code changes into a shared repository several times a day. Each commit is followed by an automated build to ensure that the new changes integrate well into the existing code base and as such can be used to detect problems early.
Compromising a TeamCity server allows an attacker full control over all TeamCity projects, builds, agents and artifacts. Which, depending on the use-case of your projects, could make for a suitable attack vector leading to a supply chain attack.
The two vulnerabilities are CVE-2024-27198, an authentication bypass vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8, and CVE-2024-27199, a path traversal issue with a CVSS score of 7.3. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2024-27198 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This means that Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies need to remediate this vulnerability by March 28, 2024 in order to protect their devices against active threats.
These two vulnerabilities allow an attacker to create new administrator accounts on the TeamCity server which have full control over all TeamCity projects, builds, agents and artifacts.
Exploitation code is readily available online and has already been integrated in offensive security tools like the MetaSploit framework.
So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that researchers are now reporting abuse of the vulnerabilities.
Bleeping Computer reports that attackers have already compromised more than 1,440 instances, while a scan for vulnerable instances by Shadowserver showed that the US and Germany are the most affected countries.
If running JetBrains TeamCity on-prem – make sure to patch for latest CVE-2024-27198 (remote auth bypass) & CVE-2024-27199 vulns NOW!
We started seeing exploitation activity for CVE-2024-27198 around Mar 4th 22:00 UTC. 16 IPs seen scanning so far.https://t.co/zZ0iU5MD8S
The vulnerabilities affect all TeamCity on-premises versions through 2023.11.3 and were fixed in version 2023.11.4. Customers of TeamCity Cloud have already had their servers patched, and according to JetBrains they weren’t attacked.
If your server is publicly accessible over the internet, and you are unable to immediately mitigate the issue you should probably make your server inaccessible until you can.
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