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The A90 south of Aberdeen looks like something from a video you see of Arctic Norway or Finland. One of the biggest snow events of the last 20 years in north-east Scotland for sure.

LIVE CNN BREAKING NEWS UPDATE! Shots Fired at Nakatomi Plaza, untold number of hostages. #NakatomiPlaza #YippeeKiYay #SwissCheese

🚨: The Sun has officially set in Barrow, Alaska, and it won't rise again until January 22, 2026.

What’s new in Azure Local: Cloud infrastructure for distributed locations enabled by Azure Arc techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearcb… #MSIgnite #AzureLocal #AzureArc

We let the Internet down today. Here’s our technical post mortem on what happened. On behalf of the entire @Cloudflare team, I’m sorry. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-20…

We’ll be coming 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 See you at the 2026 @FIFAWorldCup 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 #FIFAWorldCup

THIS is how Scotland qualify for a World Cup. Take a bow, Kenny McLean. #BBCFootball

ICYMI: Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory | aka.ms/AAyjgcy by the @Microsoft team! #Microsoft

Maniacality level: 10000

Announcing Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview) techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Microsoft… #MicrosoftDefender #DefenderforCloud #Security #MicrosoftSecurity #Cybersecurity #DefenderXDR #MicrosoftThreatIntelligence

I can't stop laughing 😆 This is a presentation of Russia’s first AI robot. I think it learned to walk from alcoholics.

Regular reminder… this hardening series by Jerry Devore is super awesome. There’s no way you won’t learn things by reading these. Part 1 - Disabling NTLMv1 Part 2 - Removing SMBv1 Part 3 - Enforcing LDAP Signing Part 4 - Enforcing AES for Kerberos Part 5 - Enforcing LDAP Channel Binding Part 6 - Enforcing SMB Signing Part 7 - Implementing Least Privilege Link to all articles 👇 techcommunity.microsoft.com/tag/adhardening

Remember when I mentioned #Incus as an awesome alternative to #Proxmox? Well, #IncusOS is where that conversation just got a serious upgrade with… - ARM64 - Secure boot / TPM 2 - Immutable images - API driven #virtualization #container #linux #foss gyptazy.com/incusos-a-plat…

Last night I captured over 60k photos of the largest supermoon of the year using two telescopes to reveal the hidden color in 119 megapixels. I call the print "Artemis Beckons", after the next crewed lunar mission. See the reply for the up close details and explanation 👇

First class cable management

How a camera survives this, I have no idea.

@JeremyChelot @youfibre I have had no internet since Sunday. Someone came yesterday and said it requires work outside and this would have been done today. Contacted your chat and told it will now be 23rd!?! This is not acceptable. I need it fixed today like I was promised!

A supreme effort at Edinburgh Waverley Station.

Existing search tools on Windows suck. Even with an SSD, it’s painfully slow. So I built a prototype of Nowgrep. It bypasses most of the slow Windows nonsense, and just parses the raw NTFS. On an SSD, this ends up faster than ripgrep, even on a cached run (Nowgrep bypasses most Software caching). Demo: Filtering 2 million and searching ~270K files under C:/ for the substring "Hello". I have many ideas to make these an even smoother experience. Let me know if this is interesting, and I might pursue it further to make a shippable product with good UX.

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