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Been working on an important series of follow-up stories about the evolution of the Aisuru botnet, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet that's been blamed for successive record-smashing DDoS attacks in recent months. Meanwhile, the people who have controlled Aisuru for some time recently insisted up and down that they were not responsible for the massive Aisuru attacks of late.

Hats off to Xlab for this incredible report, which explains (to a degree) how Aisuru gave rise to a distinct botnet called Kimwolf, which has an estimated 2-3 million infected hosts and is growing rapidly. I don't have to tell anyone that if 800k bots from Aisuru can down the largest sites on the internet, Kimwolf can take down entire countries.

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Azerbaijan, Moldova discuss strengthening interparliamentary cooperation byteseu.com/1633549/ #Azerbaijan #RepublicOfAzerbaijan





The research team drilled ice cores in the Allan Hills (the region of Antarctica closest to New Zealand).

In this location,
Layers of ancient ice have been pushed toward the surface by slow currents within the ice sheet itself.

Consequently, the team had only to drill about 300-600 feet to find the oldest ice.

The team, which included researchers from OSU and the University of Washington,
determined the age of the ice by measuring the concentrations of particular gases trapped inside.

The scientists are using the frozen water and

Composition of the air bubbles in the ice show how Antarctica’s climate has changed over the past millennia. c.im/@cdarwin/1157299389151178…


Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice

— the oldest on Earth

opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all…




Parece que advierten a Yoli Datos de que dar ayudas a banca ética puede ser un delito.
Bueno. Y qué tal si en vez de premiar por hacer algo "bien" (porque en realidad ni las bancas éticas se libran) castigamos por hacer mal?
Impuesto a quien invierta en armas, guerras y otros negocios socialmente negativos.

in reply to Maronno Winchester

Un cubo bianco con un simbolo di forma irregolare in rilievo su un lato. Il simbolo è composto da forme in colori gradiente, che vanno dal blu al viola al rosso al giallo e all'arancione. Il cubo è posizionato in diagonale su uno sfondo sfumato che passa dal rosso al blu. Sotto il cubo c'è un'ombra scura. Lo sfondo è sfumato in modo uniforme senza alcun altro dettaglio visibile.

alt-text: Un cubo bianco con un simbolo colorato in rilievo su un lato è posizionato in diagonale su uno sfondo sfumato che passa dal rosso al blu. Il simbolo è composto da forme in colori gradiente che vanno dal blu al viola al rosso al giallo e all'arancione. Sotto il cubo c'è un'ombra scura. L'immagine non contiene testo.

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The Valles Caldera is a 13.7-mile wide caldera, the third largest “supervolcano” in the U.S.

A supervolcano is capable of producing eruptions thousands of times larger than a normal volcano. The last time the Valles Caldera erupted it emitted 150 cubic miles of lava, propelling ash as far as Iowa. That was 1.2 million years ago.

#geology #nature #NewMexico #travel #daytrip #Jemez #hiking



Given how sluggish Mastodon is both via web and the API it must be another day of reckless scraping being done…
in reply to Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

It is wild how much goes on. The pageview count on @Exilian 's webforum has dropped by 75% compared to last year, and I think that's just due to us tightening up our robots.txt file.





It's green and it's coming for Christmas. No, not the Grinch but matcha. Whip up a Japanese-inspired yuletide cake with the fragrant tea and some medicinal spices. japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/12/… #life #fooddrink #recipes #sake #alcohol #tea #christmas #newyear


Green pup 🐶 allforgardening.com/1540458/gr… #cactus #SanPedroCactus


S. 222 by Sen. Roger Marshall [R-KS] passed the House and Senate yesterday. Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 govtrack.us/congress/bills/119… 🏛️


Israeli Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's statement that the “Yellow Line” dividing Gaza will be Israel's new border shows that Israel's Gaza policy is a continuation of its history of redrawing its borders through ethnic cleansing and land grabs. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/israels…
in reply to Mondoweiss 🇵🇸

ethnic cleansing is not a good description. It should be called ethnic destruction.