Universal Basic Income: what is it and what could it do? | Bevan Foundation

Universal Basic Income: what is it and what could it do? | Bevan Foundation: UBI would mean that everyone in society received a cash payment regardless of their means and without any conditions on eligibility or how the money is used.

How to Use YouTube Live to Engage Your Audience: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to Use YouTube Live to Engage Your Audience: A Step-by-Step Guide: Learn how to go live on YouTube, plus tips, tricks, and ideas for making your broadcast successful.

Op-ed: What nobody else will say about the new cybersecurity crisis

For latest piece... With tweets and violet  comment...https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/29/op-ed-what-nobody-else-will-say-about-the-new-cybersecurity-crisis.html 

Tech Live Connect - caught red handed - YouTube

(381) Tech Live Connect - caught red handed - YouTube: "Details of a tech scam in Delhi where the employees are instructed to trap customers into spending hundred of dollars when there is nothing wrong with their computer."

Tesla's Aggressive Autopilot Push Might End Up Delaying Autonomous Technology - autoevolution

Blame the driver or the maker? https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-s-aggressive-autopilot-push-might-end-up-delaying-autonomous-technology-153724.html 

Free Text to Speech Online with Natural Voices

Free Text to Speech Online with Natural Voices: quite interesting, especially the accents.

How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class - The Atlantic

How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class - The Atlantic: “the paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s stockholders.” 

Women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced by Saudi court - The Washington Post

Great allies...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/loujain-hathloul-saudi-women-rights/2020/12/28/9bc6a9de-4060-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html 

Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel
https://www.jasonhickel.org/

SoundCloud Widget

SoundCloud Widget
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry

Books in - The Coventry Observer

New children's book sheds light on the Coventry Blitz and the rebuilding of the Cathedral https://coventryobserver.co.uk/news/new-childrens-book-sheds-light-on-the-coventry-blitz-and-the-rebuilding-of-the-cathedral/

Emotet Emails Strike Thousands of DNC Volunteers | Threatpost

Since 2014: https://threatpost.com/emotet-email-dnc-volunteers/159758/ 

SolarWinds Hack Infected Critical Infrastructure

Lee at Dragos says: https://theintercept.com/2020/12/24/solarwinds-hack-power-infrastructure/ 

Christmas in Iceland

Christmas in Iceland - Christmas Around the World - whychristmas?com: Annar J�ladagur - Boxing Day This is another day for visiting friends and family and eating lots more! Public entertainment is considered inappropriate on J�l Eve and J�l Day, and it is on Boxing Day that dancing is again allowed in public!

Way back in February: ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election

Newly Surfaced Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election - Documented: “They can write a letter to the secretary of state questioning the validity of an election and saying what did happen that night,” Nelson said. “So we are drafting a lot of those things. If you have ideas in that area, let us know and we’ll get those to the state legislators and they can start to kind of exercise their political muscle in that area.”

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group - Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: 2020: The year in malware

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group - Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: 2020: The year in malware: To recap this crazy year, we’ve compiled a list of the major malware, security news and more that Talos covered this year. 

Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy

Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy | PR Watch: 'Attendees of that meeting were also treated to an American Petroleum Institute lobbyist's presentation that likened local ordinances to bar fracking to "the rise of Hitler and the rise of Fascism.""

Red Team Tactics: Getting started with Cobalt Strike [Tutorial] | Packt Hub

Red Team Tactics: Getting started with Cobalt Strike [Tutorial] | Packt Hub Classic example of self-documenting phenomenon, documenting how to abuse itself.

Five ways to declaw the Meow bot | SC Media

Five ways to declaw the Meow bot | SC Media: "If it’s realistic and financially possible for your organization, there are also any number of MFA options, from text PIN codes to X.509 certificates to tools such as Google Authenticator."

Vietnamese medical company suffers devastating data leak

Vietnamese medical company suffers devastating data leak: "it appeared that the tech company bore the brunt of a concurrent Meow bot cyberattack that removed an unknown amount of records."

Air Force A.I. test raises concerns over killer robots - FORTUNE

Air Force A.I. test raises concerns over killer robots - FORTUNE
Air Force A.I. test raises concerns over killer robots - FORTUNE

https://apple.news/AWX6fIswrSXStp64Ox8oI5g

Monetizing with Buy Me a Coffee, Does it Work?

Review: Monetizing with Buy Me a Coffee, Does it Work?: But what about a donation button? Buy Me a Coffee is one way to accept donations on your site…and it works.

Experts send Vitamin D and Covid-19 open letter to world's governments

4000 units! D3 https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2020/12/21/Experts-send-Vitamin-D-and-Covid-19-open-letter-to-world-s-governments 

Stop Blaming Foreigners for America’s Awful Cybersecurity

"What we can say for certain is that this cyber offensive was perpetrated over months in 2020 by APT29, a Russian hacker group popularly termed Cozy Bear. Western counterintelligence deduced years ago that APT29 is really the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR. Thus, this year’s mega-hack comes to America courtesy of the Kremlin, a fact which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted yesterday"

https://topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/stop-blaming-foreigners-for-americas

STAS minirail -Hanging systems & picture rails

STAS minirail -Hanging systems & picture rails: The patented STAS minirail system is the thinnest and most innovative picture hanging system in the world.

Contact Us | Picture Superstore | ARTITEQ�

Contact Us | Picture Superstore | ARTITEQ: Artiteq offers a range of picture hanging systems that will give you the pre-eminent experience

Locator Mini Archives - Picture Hanging Systems

Locator Mini Archives - Picture Hanging Systems: The Locator Mini system has the discreet quality as the Locator but is even slimmer. Still holds pictures up to 20kgs.

Structure is flawed

the edifice of civilization has an irremediable structural flaw that dictates its eventual collapse. We are on a collision course with nature and with human nature. 

Vitamin D: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

At least 4000 IU per day... 

https://www.jpmph.org/m/journal/view.php?number=1915#:~:text=In%20Finland%2C%20the%20recommendation%20for,%2D14%20years%20%5B1%5D. 

Genevieve Bell: 6 big ethical questions about the future of AI | TED Talk

Genevieve Bell: 6 big ethical questions about the future of AI | TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/genevieve_bell_6_big_ethical_questions_about_the_future_of_ai
https://www.ted.com/talks/genevieve_bell_6_big_ethical_questions_about_the_future_of_ai/transcript?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2020-12-18

spo-comm GmbH WINDBOX III Evo Core i5 (fanless) - Flat industrial PC (MS-9A95)

Very cool: spo-comm GmbH WINDBOX III Evo Core i5 (fanless) - Flat industrial PC (MS-9A95): The passively cooling metal housing of the WINDBOX III EVO systems contains an Intel Core i5 processor of the seventh generation based on Kabylake, which works with up to 3.1 gigahertz and is supported by a maximum of 32 gigabytes of RAM.

Go without a card?

https://gocardless.com/ GoCardless makes it easy to collect Direct Debit payments from customers worldwide, even for one-off or variable amounts.

[EAS] Internet annus mirabilis?

[EAS] Internet annus mirabilis?: As the first month of 2005 draws to a close it is time to sound our annual alarm over the state of Internet decay. At the beginning of 2003 we wrote that the Internet "exists at the whim of those who know how to destroy it." We also said that "Our society is a lot more dependent on the Internet than anyone has so far been prepared to admit."

People, Power and Technology The 2020 Digital Attitudes Report

Executive%20Summary%20%u2013%20doteveryone: Only 19% believe tech companies are designing their products and services with their best interests in mind. Half (50%) believe it’s ‘part and parcel’ of being online that people will try to cheat or harm them in some way.

What’s Your Story?

What’s Your Story? by Herminia Ibarra and Kent Lineback (January 2005)

Summary. https://hbr.org/2005/01/whats-your-story: A good story, then, is essential for making a successful transition. 

US & UK Tax Accountants | Private Client Services - Ingleton Partners

US & UK Tax Accountants | Private Client Services - Ingleton Partners: "Our qualified practitioners will take care of all aspects of your transatlantic taxes, including preparation of your tax returns and tax planning, disclosure and streamlined offshore programs, wealth management and more."

American Tax Returns - US and UK Tax Experts

American Tax Returns - US and UK Tax Experts Tel: 020 8946 0523: "American Tax Returns Ltd is a leading firm of dually US and UK qualified tax advisers which prepares both US and UK tax returns and provides sensible practical “joined-up” American and British tax advice; all for a simple fee agreed before starting."

The Google outage killed Android phones

The Google outage killed Android phones, showing how fragile tech ecosystems are https://www.techradar.com/news/the-google-outage-killed-android-phones-showing-how-fragile-tech-ecosystems-are

Hackers Steal Pfizer Vaccine Docs from European Agency - Infosecurity Magazine

Hackers Steal Pfizer Vaccine Docs from European Agency - Infosecurity Magazine
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hackers-raid-european-agency/

Fundraiser by Ann Lucas : Ann Lucas, Lord Mayor of Coventry

Fundraiser by Ann Lucas : Ann Lucas, Lord Mayor of Coventry
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ann-lucas-lord-mayor-of-coventry

Storytelling 101: The 6 Elements of Every Complete Narrative | Pond5

Storytelling 101: The 6 Elements of Every Complete Narrative | Pond5: 

"Regardless of genre or style, however, all good stories have six common elements. When developing your next narrative work, make sure you’re paying careful attention to all of these."

Curta Dating

1966 and 1970?

http://www.vcalc.net/cu-date.htm 

Cybercrime, attacco a Leonardo: bloccati dirigente ed ex dipendente

Cybercrime, attacco a Leonardo: bloccati dirigente ed ex dipendente
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/12/05/news/cybercrime-attacco-a-leonardo-bloccati-dirigente-ed-ex-dipendente-1.39622998

Google News - DOJ announces guilty plea for 2016 cyberattack that broke the internet

Google News - DOJ announces guilty plea for 2016 cyberattack that broke the internet
https://www.engadget.com/justice-department-2016-dyn-cyberattack-plea-183112958.html
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEOsubkmPB35DNYlp-7b9GfAqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowwOjjAjDp3xswicOyAw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

cardboard flooring - Google Search

Surprised how many hits:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cardboard+flooring&oq=cardboard+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0i131i433j0i457j69i61.4401j0j4&client=ms-android-ee-uk-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 

Soft PLCs: The industrial innovator’s dilemma - IoT Analytics

More generally hackable? 

https://iot-analytics.com/soft-plc-industrial-innovators-dilemma/ 

Research tools

Research Tools & Methods: "The Monitor on Psychology, as well as many APA newsletters, have published articles about research tools and methods in various areas of psychological science."

Come Get Your Free NSA Reverse Engineering Tool! | USA 2019 | RSA Conference: The GHIDRA platform includes all the features expected in high-end commercial tools, with new and expanded functionality NSA uniquely developed, and will be released for free public use at RSA.

Best Online Research Tools You've Never Heard Of: these sites can help you find reputable articles and journals to aid in your research.

A complete guide on how to register a business in the UK | Tide Business

A complete guide on how to register a business in the UK | Tide Business: "Registering your business is the first step in turning your new venture into a reality. It means you can start marketing yourself as a business and presenting yourself to clients as a legitimate person or organisation to trade with."

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - VICE

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - VICE
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x

NEWS | 5G Technologies for Future Innovation | Warwick Innovation District

NEWS | 5G Technologies for Future Innovation | Warwick Innovation District
https://warwickinnovationdistrict.com/2020/11/13/5g-technologies-for-future-innovation/

Google News - The NSA Warns That Russia Is Attacking Remote Work Platforms

Google News - The NSA Warns That Russia Is Attacking Remote Work Platforms
https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-warns-russia-attacking-vmware-remote-work-platforms/

ISP security

ISP security questions...
https://www.darkreading.com/edge/theedge/isp-security-do-we-expect-too-much/b/d-id/1339493?s=03 

Tweet from Security News Bot (@SecurityNewsbot)

Security News Bot (@SecurityNewsbot) tweeted at 7:30 pm on Mon, Dec 07, 2020:
Chinese Breakthrough in Quantum Computing a Warning for #Security Teams https://t.co/rF4ZsiDiGT #Threatpost

Cyber health

Cyber health
https://threatpost.com/healthcare-in-crisis-diagnosing-cybersecurity-shortcomings-in-unprecedented-times/161917/ 

Ransomeware Attack Causing Major Outages to City and County Services | Texarkana Today

Ransomeware Attack Causing Major Outages to City and County Services | Texarkana Today
https://txktoday.com/news/ransomeware-attack-causing-major-outages-to-city-and-county-services/

Self driving?

From 2018...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/technology/self-driving-cars.html

Good work

700? Wow!
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/more-700-members-transnational-organized-crime-groups-arrested-central-america-us-assisted

Amazon Sidewalk

Pavement too?
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/k06ksv/amazon_sidewalk_wtf_are_you_kidding_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

Jobs, Money, Courses & Lifestyle for Over 50s

Welcome to Rest Less. We’re here to inspire today’s generation of over 50s and 60s to get the most from life – focusing on lifestyle, learning, financial wellbeing, work, dating, volunteering, community and more.

Jobs, Money, Courses & Lifestyle for Over 50s: 

Pirate Care - One Zero

Pirate Care is a research process – primarily based in the transnational European area - aimed at mapping, connecting and activating learning from the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”; practices which are trying in new and interesting ways to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the ‘crisis of care’ in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions.

https://www.goethe.de/prj/one/en/exp/ptc.html

Ransomware Set For Evolution in Attack Capabilities in 2021 - Infosecurity Magazine

Chilling... https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ransomware-evolution-capabilities/ 

2018 vision of self driving cars

Oops...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/technology/self-driving-cars.html

Intel Doubles Down on Emerging Technologies

Intel Doubles Down on Emerging Technologies for ...: "Homomorphic encryption and federated learning could allow groups to share data and analysis while protecting the actual information."

Shurma || Indian Takeaway Menu in Coventry- Eat

The new local: Shurma || Indian Takeaway Menu in Coventry- Eat.

disrupting AI-controlled systems

disrupting AI-controlled systems: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/aug/deepfakes-ranked-most-serious-ai-crime-threat

The Internet’s Most Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick | WIRED

The Internet's Most Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/trickbot-botnet-uefi-firmware/

Cyberspies target Covid vaccine 'cold chain' distribution network | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Cyberspies target Covid vaccine 'cold chain' distribution network | Coronavirus | The Guardian
WCPGW
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/03/cyberspies-target-covid-vaccine-cold-chain-distribution-network

How to steal photos off someone’s iPhone from across the street – Naked Security

How to steal photos off someone's iPhone from across the street – Naked Security
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/12/02/how-to-steal-photos-off-someones-iphone-from-across-the-street/
Imagine malicious use and it's AI.

Attacking Artificial Intelligence: AI’s Security Vulnerability and What Policymakers Can Do About It

"The methods underpinning the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems are systematically vulnerable to a new type of cybersecurity attack called an “artificial intelligence attack.” Using this attack, adversaries can manipulate these systems in order to alter their behavior to serve a malicious end goal. As artificial intelligence systems are further integrated into critical components of society, these artificial intelligence attacks represent an emerging and systematic vulnerability with the potential to have significant effects on the security of the country." https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/AttackingAI

Find a lost UTR number - GOV.UK

Find a lost UTR number - GOV.UK: Call the Self Assessment helpline to request your UTR if you cannot find any documents from HMRC

GIFT ECONOMIES: CHALLENGING THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM

https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/blog/della-duncan-giving-economies: "For a gift economy to work, we have to learn how to receive. We can feel quite vulnerable when receiving a gift. It challenges the capitalist sense of autonomy and rugged individualism. It ties us to the gift-giver. But it also gives us a sense of belonging and connection in an increasingly atomised and disconnected world."

New Study Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Can Invade The Brain Through The Nose

New Study Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Can Invade The Brain Through The Nose
https://www.sciencealert.com/sars-cov-2-may-invade-the-brain-through-the-nerves-of-our-noses

The Gift Economy: A Path to a Better Working World | by Paul Millerd

The Gift Economy: A Path to a Better Working World | by Paul Millerd | Medium: He also often gets the question, “does this mean just your material needs, such as water, food and nothing else?” He shares that he does save for the future, but gifts help him support his desire to “ live simply and in accordance with philosophical life.”

CompTIA | CompTIA IT Security Toolkit

CompTIA | CompTIA IT Security Toolkit: you’ll be given the tools and policies you need to empower the people in your organization to assemble an effective and resilient system of cybersecurity.

CompTIA | Information Security Risk Assessment Guide

CompTIA | Information Security Risk Assessment Guide: Use this guide to talk your clients through the importance of risk assessment

CompTIA | IT Security Perimeter Health Check

CompTIA | IT Security Perimeter Health Check: an easy way to manually test your foundational security to ensure the proper controls are in place.

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - VICE

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - VICE
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x

Remote work cybersecurity a concern during pandemic

Remote work cybersecurity a concern during pandemic: The survey, which had 5,000 respondents, found that 62% of employees are using personal devices for remote work.

3 ways to ensure network security with a shift to remote work | 2020-11-16 | Security Magazine

3 ways to ensure network security with a shift to remote work | 2020-11-16 | Security Magazine: A Microsoft survey in relation to the pandemic asked companies to rank their top security investments. The top five responses were multi-factor authentication, endpoint device protection, anti-phishing tools, VPN, and end-use security education. These all relate to remote work.

Scaling security for remote working - KPMG Global

Scaling security for remote working - KPMG Global: The efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic have forced enterprises to rapidly adapt to new working models. At the heart of this is a complex and fast changing web of digital infrastructure.

Managing remote employees: How to secure remote network access

Managing remote employees: How to secure remote network access: This SearchSecurity.com mini learning guide is a compilation of tips from our experts on how to secure remote network access.

Could Healthcare Cyberattacks Triple in the Year Ahead? | Healthcare Innovation

"90 percent of health systems and hospital employees who shifted to a work-at-home assignment due to the pandemic did not receive any updated guidelines or training on the increasing risk of accessing sensitive patient data compromising systems. Forty percent of all clinical hospital employees receive little or no cybersecurity awareness training still in 2020, beyond initial education on log-in access."
https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/cybersecurity/news/21163237/could-healthcare-cyberattacks-triple-in-the-year-ahead

Publications Valeriano, Brandon - Cyber conflict stuff

Publications: Valeriano, Brandon and Ryan Maness. 2018. “How We Stopped Worrying About Cyber Doom and Started Collecting Data.” Politics and Governance. 6(2): Pages?  

Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) | Activities & Services | Services & Support | Europol

Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) | Activities & Services | Services & Support | Europol: The Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), which was launched in September 2014. Located at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), it helps fighting cybercrime within and outside the EU.

EU Policy Cycle - EMPACT | Organised Crime | Europol

EU Policy Cycle - EMPACT | Organised Crime | Europol: In 2010, the EU set up a four-year policy cycle in order to create a greater measure of continuity for the fight against serious international and organised crime.

Americans%20Shouldn%u2019t%20Have%20to%20Drive%2C%20but%20the%20Law%20Insists%20on%20It%20%7C%20by%20The%20Atlantic%20%7C%20The%20Atlantic%20%7C%20Medium

Americans%20Shouldn%u2019t%20Have%20to%20Drive%2C%20but%20the%20Law%20Insists%20on%20It%20%7C%20by%20The%20Atlantic%20%7C%20The%20Atlantic%20%7C%20Medium: "No struggle for justice in America has been successful without changing the law. The struggle against automobile supremacy is no different."

The Gift Economy: A Path to a Better Working World | by Paul Millerd | Medium

The Gift Economy: A Path to a Better Working World | by Paul Millerd | Medium: "We cannot apply the gift economy to everyone equally. This framework does not apply to everyone equally. In our lives, we often have different levels of relationships with different people."

Here's how to empower people for grassroots change | World Economic Forum

Here's how to empower people for grassroots change | World Economic Forum: "1. World leaders must commit to system change. 2. Social entrepreneurs must have a place at the decision making table. 3. Governments and major institutions should create high-level one-stop points of contact for social entrepreneurs. 4. Governments, companies, philanthropists and others must transform how they finance the ideas of social entrepreneurs. 5. Governments, companies, philanthropists and others must transform how impact is measured and by whom."

Temocracy is the future | New Europe

Temocracy is the future | New Europe: "We need to become more proactive. An umbrella strategy to do so could be Temocracy – technology-enabled democracy."

Eisensteib quote

Underlying the vast swath of ruin our civilization has carved is not human nature, but the opposite: human nature denied.

Google News - cancer blood test

Google News -
https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-to-pilot-blood-test-that-could-detect-early-signs-of-more-than-50-types-of-cancer-12143596
GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

The Beveridge Report - Social Impact

The Beveridge Report - Social Impact of WWII in Britain - National 5 History Revision - BBC Bitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z6ctyrd/revision/6

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