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#Hubble 🔭 glimpses galactic gas making getaway. Via @sciencex.physorg #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Hubble glimpses galactic gas making getaway
A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden), NGC 4388 is a resident of the Virgo…
phys.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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marvinthemartian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Putin is so 'Screwed' - As Urals Crude Drops Below $35 Per Barrel
by #siliconcurtain
09:48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfK81tgsnY8

A number with regime-shaking implications: Urals crude at roughly 35 dollars a barrel — miles below global benchmarks, and catastrophically below what the […]
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mstdn.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Now I'm thinking about the flyby of Scholtz's Star 70,000 years ago, how our prehistoric ancestors might have witnessed it, and that the comets knocked our way from the Oort Cloud will take 2,000,000 years from that point to reach us.

Will there be spacefaring beings ready to protect Earth from […]
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mastodon.social
December 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
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infosec.exchange
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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marvinthemartian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
🇺🇸 🤝 🇺🇦 Ukraine Support Act of 2025:
is your Representative on the list?

If not, write them to support the bill!

UPDATE AFTER DECEMBER 12th

🇺🇸 List of US House Representatives supporting additional aid to Ukraine:

+1 US House Representative supporting the bill (215 Representatives out of […]
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mstdn.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
OMGOMGOMGOMG

https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/1pie3px/plastered_all_over_the_pentagon_today/?chainedPosts=t3_1pijkwc
A photo posted to Reddit shows a poster of Pete Hegseth wrapped around a column in the Pentagon building, which says "I want you to use AI" in a riff of the famous "I want you" posters of old featuring Uncle Sam. The text below his image directs people to visit genai.mil.
December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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starrytimepod.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
Headline: "Monster Stars"

me: yep, I'm in....

If you're *also* in 🔗 : https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-find-first-direct-evidence-monster-stars-cosmic-dawn (also image source)

#astronomy #Astrodon #Space #Science #stars #news #scicomm
Simulated image showing the birth of a primordial quasar. The image is dominated by branching, wispy filaments of yellow and green gas converging toward a bright central region dotted with small red spots. Surrounding the structure is a deep blue background fading into purple at the top. In the upper-left corner, a label reads “t = 127.1 Myr” and “z = 25.47"
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The corruption of the Roberts court expands and expands. There's no longer even a tiny pretense -- what Donald Trump and his Republican apparatchiks and lackeys want is what the court will approve […]
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mastodon.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
The CEO of The Onion set the publication's goal for 2026 to have more subscribers than The Washington Post. At the rate the latter is going, that won't take long.

"For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important."

"Look, we're an independent company, we […]
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infosec.exchange
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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starrytimepod.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
Here's the #fall collection from #chandra -- what do you think? Is it giving Fall????

📷 :https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/fall/

#astrophotography #Space #Science #Astrodon #astronomy #nasa #autumn #vibes
Adapted From source in toot: This release highlights a collection of four composite images, presented in a two-by-two grid. At our upper left is NGC 6334, a massive nebula and star-forming region. In this image, scores of glowing young stars, depicted as tiny specs of distant light, illuminate an otherwise dark scene. The specs of red, green, yellow, purple, and white, are clustered near the center of the image, but extend to the edges of the frame in faint streaks. Partially masking the specs of color are tendrils of grey clouds; strong winds of dust and gas blowing from the still-forming stars. The image at our upper right features a supernova remnant called G272.2-3.2. Here, a white dwarf star has pulled material from a companion star, triggering a thermonuclear explosion. In this image, the ball of gas is a mottled, translucent orange sphere with patches of hot pink at the outer edges. The image at the grid's lower right depicts a pair of colliding spiral galaxies. Here, both spirals are shown face on, with the smaller of the two galaxies, IC 2163, at the upper left of the larger galaxy, NGC 2207, which dominates the center and lower right of the image. Both galaxies have long, spiraling, silver blue arms, dotted with specs of blue and red. Toward our upper left, the curving arms overlap Finally, at lower left, is R Aquarii. Here, a white dwarf star pulls material from a much larger red giant companion, sending looping jets of matter into space.
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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troycap.bsky.social
Wonderful image from Hubble, The Hourglass Nebula

Awesome image from the #Hubble Space Telescope of the Hourglass #Nebula, buff.ly/NaNgh1x

If you are interested in commissioning an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email at [email protected].
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy
A lengthy posting on President Trunp’s primary social account this morning furiously reacts to a NYT story documenting a president showing signs of aging. A co-author of the piece, Katie Rogers, is attacked as “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.” […]
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journa.host
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm […]
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mastodon.scot
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
It's not clear yet whether Epstein was ever able to share info with the Russians, but this could explain a lot. From Politico:

"Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top […]
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infosec.exchange
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US.

The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […]

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A TP-Link WiFi 6 AX1800 Smart WiFi Router (Archer AX20). The router is black, completely flat, with a very low profile, and six green lit lights in the front. There are four black antennas sticking straight up out of the back.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]
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infosec.exchange
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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starskyua.bsky.social
Yay! russians launched fireworks to celebrate the fact that russian teachers and doctors finally started receiving higher salaries than soldiers and propagandists… 🥳

…okay, I’m kidding. It’s just another refinery burning 🤘😁🔥
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
If you've been as enthralled w/ the Louvre heist story as I have, you might be interested to learn this:

"According to the newspaper Libération , documents from a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for Information Systems Security reported a disconcerting detail: the password for the […]
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infosec.exchange
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I especially liked this bit: The President of the United States of America doesn’t know the difference between “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a place where mentally ill people are treated”, and “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a refuge from persecution and/or violence”.

And thus he believes that […]
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infosec.exchange
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Did you watch the unfuckingbelievable interview that 60 Minutes aired last night on Trump? The travesty is that the edited version should never have been edited, as we can see from viewing the transcript of the entire batshit crazy interview. Wherein Trump contradicts himself many times and […]
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infosec.exchange
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
New, by me: Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder "MrICQ" in U.S. Custody

A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United […]

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A mugshot of a 41 y/o Ukrainian man being held in Nebraska, Yuriy Igorevich Rybtsov. He has brown hair that recedes slightly on both sides, and is wearing a prison outfit of a white shirt and bright orange jumpsuit. This photo from lockedup[.]wtf, says he is being held for the FBI.
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I guess I can write about these guys till I'm blue in the face. These proxy/botnet stories have a lot of moving parts, so I get it when another big development makes everyone yawn. But don't take my word for it: If you look at Cloudflare Radar right now, you […]

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A Cloudflare Radar chart for today shows a C2 server for the Aisuru botnet is currently the most sought-after domain on the internet.
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Get ready for a torrent of AI slop about a "Second Moon", a new 'Quasi-moon' has been found, a big boulder in Space which is currently sharing an orbit with us for a bit.

https://earthsky.org/space/earth-quasi-moon-2025-pn7/

#2025pn7 #quasimoon #space #Astrodon #asteroids
Meet Earth’s newest quasi-moon, recently discovered 2025 PN7
earthsky.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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starrytimepod.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
GHOST HAND... ahem, I mean, MSH 15-52.

📷 :https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/msh1552/

#spooky #astrohotography #chandra #Science #Space #halloween #Astrodon #nebula #supernova
From source in toot: This release features a composite image of a nebula and pulsar that strongly resembles a cosmic hand reaching for a neon red cloud. The neon red cloud sits near the top of the image, just to our right of center. Breaks in the cloud reveal interwoven strands of gold resembling spiderwebs, or a latticework substructure. This cloud is the remains of the supernova that formed the pulsar at the heart of the image. The pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star only 12 miles in diameter, is far too small to be seen in this image, which represents a region of space over 150 light-years across. The bottom half of the image is dominated by a massive blue hand reaching up toward the pulsar and supernova cloud. This is an intricate nebula called MSH 15-52, an energetic wind of electrons and other particles driven away from the pulsar. The resemblance to a hand is undeniable. Inside the nebula, streaks and swirls of blue range from pale to navy, evoking a medical X-ray, or the yearning hand of a giant, cosmic ghost. The hand and nebula are set against the blackness of space, surrounded by scores of gleaming golden specks. At our lower left, a golden hydrogen gas cloud extends beyond the edges of the image. In this composite, gold represents optical data; red represents ATCA radio data; and blue, orange, and yellow represent X-ray data from Chandra. Where the blue hand of the nebula overlaps with the radio data in red, the fingers appear hazy and purple.
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM