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Still waiting for the details to be released on what #rootpipe   exploits but it is a privilege escalation bypass…

Originally shared by Martin Gustafsson

Still waiting for the details to be released on what   exploits but it is a privilege escalation bypass of some sort.

If this privilege escalation bypass is combined with a zero day remote execute exploit of Safari (or other major browser on the platform) in combination with a hacked major website we could see something VERY bad happening.

All MacOS X users (10.8 and up), create a separate administrative account and remove your daily usage account(s) from the admin group!

For some reason this only seems to be headlining the news on tech sites here in Sweden so this needs to be spread around! FYI for anyone claiming the realiability of the source, TrueSec is a highly respected and comptent swedish company.

If this involves sudo, other n*x-flavours could be affected as wellö

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQg2I_pFDk
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Positives: This happens nearly every morning in California.

Originally shared by John Poteet

Positives: This happens nearly every morning in California. The sun rises and 4 gigawatts of industrial solar power comes online. There’s another 2.7 gigawatts of residential rooftop solar that doesn’t show on this graph. So what we have here are six nuclear power plants worth of power that are producing minimal carbon emissions and no radioactive waste. 

Of course, this is a fraction of the solar power Germany produces on a clear day so California can do better. It’s still a very good thing. 

image: screencapped from….

http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx#Renewables

     

 

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Cometscape

 

At first glance it looks like a moonlit mountain scene, but on closer examination several strange things become apparent.

First, gravity is wrong for a mountainscape. There are many loose boulders sprinkled around in places where they would slide away, if this was a view of earth.

Second, in the sandy (sand??) area in the lower right there appear to be dune-like ripples, which normally form from wind, which would imply some kind of atmosphere.  But of course, this comet is floating in outer space, and has an extremely weak gravity.

But third, there appears to be some kind of haze in the photo.  Perhaps dust, perhaps gas coming from the comets interior.  Does this have any relation to the dune-like features.