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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth day, a coalition led by the US and Europe has mounted a coordinated response focused on financial sanctions and, increasingly, military aid. While the conflict grows in scale and intensity, organizations far beyond the apparatus of military and government are being drawn in — including ransomware groups active in Russia and Ukraine. That gravitational pull is particularly fraught in Russia, where the borders between hackers and the Russian intelligence services are sometimes porous, and one group in particular has been made to pay for its allegiance to the Putin regime. On Friday, the notorious ransomware gang Conti surprised many observers by explicitly casting its lot with Putin’s military agenda, declaring “full support” for the Russian government and threatening to mount attacks on critical infrastructure of any adversaries launching cyberattacks against Russia. The Conti #ransomware operation sides with Russia and … [Read more...] about A ransomware group paid the price for backing Russia

Apple has reversed course on its plans to return to normal operations and has suspended requirements that employees return to the office this month for at least three days a week. The U-turn comes after woke employees called the mandate to return to the office a racist move designed to make the company “younger, whiter, and male-dominated.” The New York Times reports that Apple has reversed its plans to require workers to return to its offices for at least three days a week. The company has said this is due to a resurgence in coronavirus cases, but many employees have been openly protesting Apple’s plans to return to the offices for some time, placing heavy pressure on the tech giant. (AFP) (Justin Sullivan/Getty) Thousands of employees have been pushing back against the company’s demands, with the employee group Apple Together publishing a letter earlier this month calling on the firm to allow for a hybrid and flexible work schedule. The open letter claimed … [Read more...] about Apple Delays Return to Office After Woke Employee Mob Calls Its Plans Racist

Senate Republicans on Wednesday introduced legislation aimed at curbing Wall Street’s largest asset managers’ woke capitalist activism. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA), the Senate Banking Committee ranking member, and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced the Investor Democracy is Expected (INDEX) Act to curb Wall Street’s control over corporate ownership and voting power becoming increasingly concentrated within Wall Street’s largest investment advisers and their index funds. As leaders in passive investing index funds, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, which manage over $20 trillion in combined assets, have become some of the largest owners in most American public companies. Due to their outsized control over American companies, they can leverage their use of millions of index fund investors into becoming the dominant voting bloc at many investor meetings. Toomey said that the bill would return the power to the average American from Wall Street: In recent years, a small handful of … [Read more...] about Republicans Propose Bill to Fight Back Against Woke Capitalism

NEW DELHI: Google announced Real Tone filters at 2022 edition of its annual developers conference, I/O 2022. These filters are designed to work across skin tones. In 2021, Google announced Real Tone for Pixel, this year it has expanded them to more Google products. "Today, we're introducing a next step in our commitment to image equity and improving representation across our products," said the company while making the announcement at I/O. Google announced Real Tone filters in partnership with Harvard professor and sociologist Dr Ellis Monk. The company has made the Monk Skin Tone (MST) scale, a 10-shade scale that the company says is culmination of Dr Monk’s research into the area. Named after Dr Monk, the MST Scale is composed of 10 shades, a number that the company says is chosen so as not to be too limiting, but also not too complex. These skin tones can be applied to machine learning models for computer vision projects of various kinds. What are these Real Tone … [Read more...] about google: Google Photos get Real Tone Filters: What are they and how they work

When you're tackling the baseboards with a dust cloth, is what you're mopping up mostly your own dead skin? There's a myth that house dust is mostly human skin , but luckily, it's only a little bit true. Skin cells are part of the makeup of house dust, but there are a lot of other components in that layer on top of your ceiling fan blades. These include paint, fibers, mold, hair, building materials, pollen, bacteria, viruses, insect body parts, flakes of skin, ash, soot, minerals and bits of soil, according to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (opens in new tab) . That list is based on the Canadian Dust Study (opens in new tab) , in which researchers collected dust samples from 1,025 Canadian homes in order to quantify the prevalence of lead. The proportions of each of the components vary from household to household. A newly built home, for example, might have a lot of drywall dust or other dust from construction still floating around. A house near a busy … [Read more...] about Is house dust mostly dead skin?