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Warm, Encouraging Email From CEO Quickly Identified As Phishing Attempt

Warm, Encouraging Email From CEO Quickly Identified As Phishing Attempt theonion.com/warm-en...

Me as an individual developer: “What do project managers do, exactly?”

Me managing a huge project: “Oh. OH. This is really hard…”

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

I remember my father bringing one of these home, probably late 1984. It weighed something like 30 pounds and I couldn’t lift it off the floor. Even had a 5MB (?) hard disk installed.

He had to carry it on the train to and from the office, until it was eventually replaced with a IBM PC Convertible.

An infographic titled "How BIG are the BLACK HOLES we find with GRAVITATIONAL WAVES?" by @astronerdika. The graphic displays a range of black hole masses detected via gravitational waves, categorized by their size in solar masses (mass of the Sun) and represented with playful cat-like black hole illustrations. The categories from left to right are: 1. "<5 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "smol" - Very small black hole illustration represented by a curled up black cat - Arrow pointing left: "THIS WAY TO NEUTRON STARS" - Example: "Big component of GW230529 (~3.6 times the mass of the Sun)" 2. "~10 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "basic" - Slightly larger black hole cat illustration - Caption: "LOTS OF BLACK HOLES" 3. "~35–45 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "hefty" - Bigger black hole cat illustration - Continues the idea of a populated range 4. ">60 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "chonky" - Large black hole cat illustration - Caption: "FORBIDDEN TERRITORY? (can these even be made from the collapse of star cores?!)" - Example: "Components of GW190521 (~85 + ~66 times the mass of the Sun)" 5. ">100 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "oh lawd" - Very large, curled-up black hole cat illustration - Arrow pointing right: "THIS WAY TO INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES" - Example: "Components of GW231123 (~137 + ~103 times the mass of the Sun)" Below the categories is a stylized black curve representing the inferred population of black holes detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. It rises sharply in the "basic" range and falls off toward the "hefty" and "chonky" ranges, with a note reading: "this curve is an artistic representation of the black hole population inferred by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA." This infographic draws from the “Chonky Cat” meme.

Heard the latest news from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration? We detected the collision of the most massive pair of black holes so far: #GW231123 weighing in at ~137 + ~103 times the mass of the Sun!

So to celebrate, here’s a handy chart ✨

Just how chonky are these black holes? 🤔

A star field set against a glowing red and orange nebula. Bright, bluish-white stars dominate the scene. Scattered throughout the image are dark, irregular-shaped clouds of gas and dust.

Dive into this spectacular image of the stellar nursery IC 2944!

You see those thick clouds of dust? They are being bombarded by the UV radiation from nearby stars, and are likely to be destroyed before they can collapse and form new stars.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666

If you want to catch up on the new pope, this thread is the wildest ride.

Because at any time like this for world news what everyone needs is a nerd whose wheelhouse it is livetweeting the process of finding out.

This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35,000 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). It is one of the oldest globular clusters known, with an age of around 12 billion years. This new image is made up of observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys in the ultraviolet, infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum. (NASA, ESA)

Figure 1. Comparing two theoretical isochrones we constructed with different ages, MC parameters, distance, and reddening. The observational data for M15 is plotted in the background, with photometric uncertainty estimated from the AS test plotted on the right.

This is the globular cluster M15, imaged by Hubble. It's a great target for binoculars or backyard telescopes, in the constellation Pegasus.

Jiaqi Ying et al. measured M15's age with 3% precision. This group of stars formed *immediately* after the Universe did.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.02969

🔭🧪 #stars

I feel really stupid asking again

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’ WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy rel...

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’

A fisheye lens view of the night sky taken from the ground of an astronomical observatory. Several telescope domes and other buildings are arranged around the circular frame. The sky glows in green hues and it is filled with stars. The band of the Milky Way galaxy is visible in the middle.

What's the magical green glow that dominates the sky in this pic of ESO’s La Silla Observatory? 🧐

Known as airglow, it's a faint light emitted by the Earth’s atmosphere and it is only visible in the darkest of places.

What causes it? Find out here: www.eso.org/public/image...

🔭 🧪

📷 J. Pérez/ESO

The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

50 mile per hour wind, steady rain, less than 1:15 to go. The runners better be on Ball Bearing Hill if they hope to get here in time. Wherever they are, things are getting intense. This is the Barkley. #BM100

Ten runners completed Loop 1 within the time limit; 9 continued to Loop 2. 14 runners have been tapped out; 16 remain on Loop 1 and will be tapped out when they return. #BM100

Tariff-free joy flows from Canada to the world—receive this heartfelt and positive export from the land of resilience and love. 🍁🧡
(and forward the positive vibes)

The Cubs winning the World Series. No doubt about it.

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

“ONLY IF IT’S NOT TOO MUCH BOTHER” - absolutely mandatory

“OH YOU REALLY MUST” - optional, probably unnecessary

Why you gotta be like this Cisco? Quote the url to get your "entitlement to a free upgrade" for a CVSS 10/10 bug in your product?

Really? Thats where we're at with product security in 2025AD? SMDH.

🖕🌉🖕

New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

1/ ☄️ Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is gracing our skies, and we’d like to share some amazing images from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile!

This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪

Software engineers of the world, I beg you.

Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.

Sincerely,

Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

The profile "Sarah W." does not exist. And yet LinkedIn pretends that it does.

How on Earth does a product team inside a company sign up on making up fake profiles to push advertisements?

GenAI is really making businesses lose their minds, isn't it? Burning their own brand.

This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.

Turned out to be the Time Master trilogy by Louise Cooper - wasn't as good as 16 year old me remembered, but was quite a search. Like this one, I could only remember a very few details, most of which were wrong 😂