Sunday, April 02, 2023

What I am Reading 4/2/2023 - Electric Grids, Tik-Tok, and Cryptocurrency, Oh My!

 I missed last week so it's a fairly big list this time around.

Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie, ‘Nuclear Now’

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-nuclear-now-trailer-1235357522/

Dennis Quaid documentary 'Grid Down, Power Up' explores dangers of sudden electric grid failure

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dennis-quaid-documentary-grid-down-power-up-explores-dangers-sudden-electric-grid-failure

The movie - Grid Down Power Up


https://www.griddownpowerup.com/watch-gdpu/

California wants to build more solar farms but needs more power lines


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/california-wants-to-build-more-solar-farms-but-needs-more-power-lines/

For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US

https://www.popsci.com/environment/renewable-energy-generation-coal-2022/

The pressing threat of Chinese-made drones flying above U.S. critical infrastructure

https://cyberscoop.com/chinese-drone-threat-dji-regulation-critical-infrastructure/

Dependence on Chinese-made tech threatens grid, experts warn

https://cyberscoop.com/chinese-grid-equipment-us-grid/

Vulkan Playbook Leak Exposes Russia's Plans for Worldwide Cyberwar

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/vulkan-playbook-leak-exposes-russia-plans-worldwide-cyber-war

CISA director says cutting agency’s budget would return it to ‘pre-SolarWinds world’


https://cyberscoop.com/easterly-cisa-budget-china-biden/

Legacy, password-based authentication systems are failing enterprise security, says study

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3691781/legacy-password-based-authentication-systems-are-failing-enterprise-security-says-study.html#tk.rss_all

Amazon workers fume after HR rejects petition against return to office


https://nypost.com/2023/03/24/amazon-workers-fume-after-hr-rejects-petition-against-return-to-office/

Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/25/cargo-theft-led-by-food-and-beverage-is-surging-across-the-us.html

Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65060733

A nasal spray protects against coronavirus infection – Effective also against recent immune-evasive variants

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/pandemics/nasal-spray-protects-against-coronavirus-infection-effective-also-against-recent-immune-evasive-variants

Half of Black Students Can Barely Read

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-can-hardly

WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/writers-guild-artificial-intelligence-proposal-1235560927/

Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html

Stanford’s War Against Its Own Students


https://www.thefp.com/p/stanfords-war-against-its-own-students

End of the rainbow? California bill targets Skittles, other snacks with ‘toxic’ chemicals

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-23/california-law-would-ban-skittles-other-snacks-chemicals

Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41


https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/22/kelly-aloria-lum-passes-away-at-41-obituary/

Bill Gates: AI is most important tech advance in decades

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65032848

Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/twitter-posts-the-code-it-claims-determines-which-tweets-people-see-and-why/

Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem


https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/bitcoin-is-solution-looking-problem-2023-03-24/

Hackers drain bitcoin ATMs of $1.5 million by exploiting 0-day bug

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/hackers-drain-bitcoin-atms-of-1-5-million-by-exploiting-0-day-bug/

US agency sues top crypto exchange Binance and CEO, seeks permanent trading bans

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/us-agency-sues-top-crypto-exchange-binance-and-ceo-seeks-permanent-trading-bans/

Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/judge-finds-google-destroyed-evidence-and-repeatedly-gave-false-info-to-court/

Microsoft Security Copilot harnesses AI to give superpowers to cybersecurity fighters


https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-security-copilot-harnesses-ai-to-give-superpowers-to-cybersecurity-fighters/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

The Status Trap

https://every.to/no-small-plans/the-status-trap

About three-in-ten U.S. adults say they are ‘almost constantly’ online


https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/26/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-say-they-are-almost-constantly-online/

OPEC+ announces surprise oil output cuts

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sarabia-other-opec-producers-announce-voluntary-oil-output-cuts-2023-04-02/

Today’s management-speak has a lot in common with 1930s Soviet propaganda—and it’s making people miserable

https://fortune.com/2023/03/30/corporate-workplace-culture-soviet-union-1930s-increased-production-performance/

Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/27/where-have-all-the-laid-off-tech-workers-gone

SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds


https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html

The 'Insanely Broad' RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok


https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns

Republican Rand Paul blocks TikTok ban, asks if US is 'going to be just like China' and block free speech

https://www.wionews.com/world/republican-rand-paul-blocks-tiktok-ban-asks-if-us-is-going-to-be-just-like-china-and-block-free-speech-577130

Can a White House initiative compel tech companies to write safer code?

https://cyberscoop.com/software-liability-biden-microsoft-vulnerabilities/

Supply chain cyberattack with possible links to North Korea could have thousands of victims globally

https://cyberscoop.com/3cx-hack-supply-chain-north-korea/

Spyware vendors use exploit chains to take advantage of patch delays in mobile ecosystem


https://www.csoonline.com/article/3692354/spyware-vendors-use-exploit-chains-to-take-advantage-of-patch-delays-in-mobile-ecosystem.html#tk.rss_all

How to Solve IoT's Identity Problem


https://www.darkreading.com/dr-tech/how-to-solve-iot-s-identity-problem

Millions of Pen Tests Show Companies' Security Postures Are Getting Worse


https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/millions-pen-tests-companies-security-posture-getting-worse

Attackers Are Probing for Zero-Day Vulns in Edge Infrastructure Products

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/attackers-probing-zero-day-vulns-edge-infrastructure

CISA, NSA push identity and access management framework as risks grow


https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/identity-and-access/cisa-nsa-push-identity-and-access-management-framework-as-risks-grow

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