Abel Silva

Breaking: After 2019's .ORG fiasco, @ICANN is now removing price caps on all .COM domains as well. This will hurt millions of small businesses. Why do this? Hint: ICANN got a $20M bribe from @Verisign. Leave a public comment. Here's mine. Source: namecheap.com/blog/icann-all…

The crew from Fire and Rescue NSW Station 509 Wyoming recorded this video showing the moment their truck was overrun by the bushfire burning South of Nowra. The crew was forced to shelter in their truck as the fire front passed through. #NSWFires #ProtectTheIrreplaceable

New digital skimmer/#magecart technique: steganography A colleague found this a couple of days ago while searching through our SIEM. The skimmer group uploads or modifies an existing image and appends the JS code. 1/5

Today, at 15:35, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses. Read our full announcement here: ripe.net/publications/n… In the picture, the Registration Services team at the RIPE NCC

Former President Obama to young people: “This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly” Obama goes on to slam people who engage in cancel culture and who look to create constant online outrage

A beautiful #winter wonderland... on #Mars! This ice-filled crater was imaged by our Mars Express spacecraft. Korolev crater is 82 kilometres across and found in the northern lowlands of Mars. More images: esa.int/Our_Activities…

Today is a banner day for #opensource. Red Hat will be combining forces with @IBM in the largest software transaction in history and it’s an open source company. Read Paul Cormier's thoughts: red.ht/2RnRx95 red.ht/2qggW9e

Bloomberg has doubled down on insisting its hardware hacking story is accurate; but the server experts at STH are now also doubling down (in detail) on why they believe the story is "nonsensical." It's a 5-page read, but worth it. servethehome.com/investigating-…

Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network and is making 60,000 of its patents available, royalty free, to other OIN members: zdnet.com/article/micros… (by @sjvn)

Liftoff and landing

Falcon 9 has landed – first West Coast land landing of an orbital class rocket booster.

Liftoff!

“Supermicro Refutes Claims in Bloomberg Article” Read the full statement here supermicro.com/newsroom/press…

Worth reading. aws.amazon.com/blogs/security… In my experience enterprises such as Amazon are very cautious in their statements around security issues, and this one is a pretty firm denial.

This is beyond crazy. Unless you worked in or for a datacenter, you may not know how widespread is the use of Supermicro products. From small bus to the enterprise, at one point your data has, and probably still is, flowing over one of their motherboard. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The largest asset manager in the world, @blackrock, manages $6.3 trillion of assets. That's trillion w/ a T. That also means that it does more than any other company to finance #climatechange & rainforest destruction. We’re going to change that. Join us: blackrocksbigproblem.com

EU Parliament just voted in favor of the most harmful pieces of the © directive: #Article13 #Censorshipmachines and #Article11 #linktax. The last line of defense against these terrible provisions will be the Member States. #SaveYourInternet

BREAKING: In a huge victory, the European Parliament has voted 318-278 against #Article13 and #Article11—the disastrous #CensorshipMachine and #LinkTax copyright proposals. That means we’re close to stopping these terrible proposals—and we’re gaining momentum.