thehackernews
9h ago
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Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution.
tidbits
33h ago
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Acorn 8.6.2
Adds the ability to to take a layered screenshot of all your open windows from the Dock menu. ($29.99 new, free update, 36.9 MB, macOS 14+)
arenaev
39h ago
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600 Wh/kg energy density is here - almost
Colin Chapman's sacred motorsport gospel - "Simplify, then add lightness" - has taken a proper beating in the electric era. Every time I fling a modern, high-voltage missile into a tight hairpin, I can feel the tortured rubber screaming under the mass of it all. We have built remarkable machines with earth-shattering torque, but the dirty secret beneath every carbon-trimmed EV is that we are dragging a massive, half-ton (if we're lucky) slab of chemical dead weight around.
seths
41h ago
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What’s next?
For fifteen or twenty years, this question is relentlessly answered, whether or not we ask it. After we learn fractions, the teacher moves on to decimals. After we read O’Connor, we’re handed Faulkner. In music history, Debussy follows Brahms. Chemistry after biology. It persists in some places after school… the museum hangs Picasso in the […]
kottke
11h ago
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Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with...
Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia. “The bodies of people with schizophrenia, especially those on medication, simply regulate temperature very differently than others do.”
neowin
9h ago
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CISSP Security & Risk Management Training Bundle is still 95% off
Check out these eight courses on CISSP's eight domains to help you pass the exam and get certified in the field. Read more...
How McDonald’s Is Adapting to a Changing Economy
McDonald’s CEO & Chairman Chris Kempczinski on implementing a new strategy at a company with 63 million global daily customers.
vox
33h ago
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The most sympathetic case for NIMBYism is still wrong
A natural disaster can do in one day what decades of public zoning fights cannot: Erase entire neighborhoods and force thousands of decisions, all at once, about what will replace them. That’s the question now — still — hanging over Altadena, the Pacific Palisades, and other Los Angeles-area communities that burned in the catastrophic January […]
techcrunch
34h ago
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More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey
The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.
sciencenews
35h ago
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Your skin chemistry may affect which mosquitoes most want to bite you
Three species preferred different people based on their skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help make new microbe-based repellants.