Have any of the ransomware attacks taken the step of trashing/encrypting the backups and then waiting for some period to attack the live systems, so that restoring from a recent backup isn't an option? Most backup systems expire older backups on some schedule to avoid an unending increase in the size of their backup storage pool. So, an attacker could either destroy the backup system directly, or they could let the backup system destroy itself if they encrypted everything, but had the systems set-up to transparently decrypt everything with a key that "self-destructs" after several months.

A frighteningly high percentage of the places that I've worked had no real disaster recovery plan in place. Even the places that did have a good plan did their full recovery drills on a somewhat infrequent basis (annually was common), and having to revert everything to last year's fully tested complete backups with no further updates possible would be devastating to many organizations.

This is expected behavior with Epic. I think Epic uses the fact that doctors, nurses, etc., can see information about visits, lab tests, etc. that were done at other institutions as a selling point. Right on the homepage https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.epic.com%2F they say:

...although a lot of the carriers (at least in the US) will SIM lock the phone if you finance the hardware through them. Buying the phones directly from Apple means they aren't SIM locked. This is one less headache to deal with if you want to change companies, or if you want to get a secondary SIM (e.g. for international travel). Even if you've completely paid off the hardware cost to the carrier, you might not automatically have an unlocked phone, either because the carrier doesn't offer auto-unlock or their auto-unlock system is flaky.

It pains me that I considered modding this insightful.

While it is true that Daylight Saving (no ending s) Time exists in part or all of the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Chile (possibly going by another name such as summer time), it is not correct that the time is changing this weekend in all of those places, as TFS implies. In much of Europe, it ended for the year on October 27. For Australia and Chile, not only are the dates of the change different in the latter half of the year (first weekend of October and September, respectively), the direction of the change is different. Since those are southern hemisphere countries, they have recently started, not ended, DST, since it's spring on that side of the planet. TFA doesn't even mention these countries, so these errors are introduced by TFS.

How is this different from BIMI that Apple supposedly started rolling out 2 years ago?

Perhaps this is being pedantic, but saying something is personal does not necessarily equate to saying that something is private. The two concepts are frequently linked, but, as you point out in this case, they don't have to be.

Unless you have an identical twin (or triplet, ...), your genome is unique, and something that is unique to you could be considered personal. Even if you have an identical sibling, there are some (relatively) small number of mutations that make you different from your sibling. Simple/cheap tests will usually miss these differences, but (at the other extreme) a full sequence would show them. Generally, it's not necessary to go that far to prove that differences exist.

While your DNA may not be private in the sense that it can be collected by others without your consent or knowledge, I think a lot of people would consider DNA to be something that is private in the sense that they would object to it being used in certain ways without their express consent. Using DNA to make decisions on things like employment and insurance is just one example of this.

It's not that simple.

There are a variety of organizations that use the same authentication system for multiple domains. Disney is one of the well-known companies to do this.

Some password managers have a notion of equivalent domains which let you deal with simple cases of this; however, the configuration of these is usually more complex than just adding a new password. It's not something that most readers of this site would find difficult to do, but it's more than you could expect some non-technical users to do. Some password managers even come with some "well known" equivalent domains by default, but I've never seen one that has a list that I haven't needed to edit, even for logins to well-known large organizations. And, of course, this doesn't even begin to deal with the mess that exists in a lot of large intranets where there are multiple authentication schemes that aren't fully synchronized and knowing which one to use can vary by URL (and not just the hostname part).

UTM has modes to both virtualize (same architecture) and emulate (different architecture). It's based off of QEMU. It's also one of the few free ones that makes it easy to run a macOS guest on an Apple silicon macOS host.

For the "average" user (not necessarily a reader here), it might mean that they could still access various streaming services without needing to use some external box (e.g. Roku). For example, some older Samsung TVs can't get Disney+ because that service didn't exist when the TV was manufactured. There have also been some services that have changed something in their system that has caused a previously working service/app to stop working. Whether or not it's legitimate, the services have tried to shift blame for this to the manufacturer. (e.g. "They haven't updated their systems to support 'modern standards'.")

How much of the 2G stuff still runs on old, dedicated hardware (vs. just being another feature on 4G/5G equipment)? i.e. Is this a software-only change or will they actually be able to power down a lot of hardware?

Peak implies that we're at the upper limit.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Albert Einstein

A claim that the binaries they provide in their distro will behave the same as the binaries that appear in the same version of RHEL. Over the last several years, this has become increasingly difficult due to policy changes by IBM/RH.

The Senator has posted a copy of the letter at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wyden.senate.gov%2Fi...

How close have any of the alternatives gotten to the uptime that traditional POTS landlines had in the US? Other things (e.g. VOIP) are certainly cheaper, and the difference in uptimes may not always justify the difference in cost for many uses. However, there are some cases where being as close to 100% uptime as possible is important. 911 emergency calling is one such case that is often given a lot of importance by lawmakers, regulators, the public, etc. even though 911 calls are only a tiny fraction of the overall phone call volume. Based upon the maps they publish on their websites, all 3 of the big US mobile providers have parts of California where they don't even claim coverage, so mobile isn't necessarily a universal backup option (yet).