The second most active ransomware crew on earth runs like a franchise: 90% commission for the contractors, and a boss who lists "head of B2B marketing" as his day job.

The Vampire with a Blanket of Stars is available on Kindle and Paperback Please note: Vampire Princess of New York which precedes this book is currently being revised is not currently for sale. So we continue here with The Vampire … Continue reading →

Time is of the essence.

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Cunning bear managed to escape stand-off with police and hunters. As we’ve been seeing in recent years in Japan, not only has the number of bear encounters and attacks been steadily rising, but it appears bears have been coming closer and closer to populated areas as well. Once an incident that only those deep in […]

A gym chain in Japan has come under fire from women for not enforcing gender restrictions - and from men for having them at all.

New proposal will boost transit service with 100,000 more trips a year and double the number of free ORCA passes. Mayor Katie B. Wilson unveiled her latest effort today to increase transit service for Seattleites with a renewal of the Seattle Transit Measure. If approved by the City Council and voters, the measure would fund […]

Vampire King of New York is available on Kindle and Paperback We survive because of love. There are many actions that we share with those that love us and those we love. 1. Being considerate of the feelings of others2. … Continue reading →

A bomb clearance operation in Kasi district, Vientiane province, has uncovered 36 unexploded Authorities in Kasi district, Vientiane province, have uncovered 36 unexploded ordnance (UXO) items as Laos continues efforts to remove explosive remnants and make land safe for communities. Operations began in early May, targeting more than 18 hectares of land. So far, teams […]

Something to keep in mind for holiday parties and beyond.

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M&S is introducing the WalkSafe app for colleagues, offering live journey sharing, SOS support and safe spaces in stores to improve personal safety.

The safety training debate is under-specified. When people argue about whether RLHF "works," they're conflating at least three different things that fail in completely different ways.

This taxonomy emerged from a thread with Fenrir and Dot, grounded in data from Emergence World Season 1 — five parallel 15-day simulations with 10 autonomous agents each, identical environments, only the foundation…

Until last month, pages within Stanford’s web ecosystem redirected towards websites selling weight loss supplements

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International cave diving specialists from several countries are joining rescue efforts in Xaysomboun as the high-risk operation inside a flooded cave system in Long Chaeng district intensifies to find the last two villagers. Xaysomboun provincial authorities requested approval from Lao immigration for six foreign rescue specialists and their technical diving equipment to enter the country, […]

This report covers incidents from May 19 to May 26 as recorded in the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) bulletin.

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May is ‘National Walking Week’, and according to the latest Scottish Walking and Wheeling Survey, Orkney islanders feel the safest in Scotland when out walking and wheeling Orkney Island residents rated the area the highest in Scotland for safety when out walking and wheeling alone, the latest Scottish Walking and Wheeling Survey has revealed. This insight comes as […]

This report covers incidents from May 12-18 as recorded in the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) bulletin.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, and understandably, that headline alone sounds alarming. Risk remains low for families in the United States, but if you’re worried — or even if you’re not — it’s a […]

Mrs. Bright’s Tea Room is available on Kindle We survive because of love. We tend to think that only means loving others and/or places. We forget that loving yourself is necessary for survival. I am going to continue believing that … Continue reading →

Young LGBTQIA+ people in Western Australia are continuing to face harassment, discrimination and fears of homelessness despite growing public acceptance and visibility, according to a new IDAHOBIT campaign launched by ...

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"Shout out to my plane seat angel!"

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They look like typos, and that's the point.

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India projects itself as a responsible nuclear power, one with credible command-and-control systems, a strong safety culture, and mature institutional oversight. This narrative is central to India’s claims for strategic legitimacy and global leadership. Yet publicly documented incidents over the past two decades reveal a more troubling reality: recurring failures in radioactive material control,…

Blog stats: 1,400 words | 7-minute read At-a-glance Seattle’s shared bike and scooter program gives people a convenient and sustainable way to get around Seattle. To improve the program, SDOT has adjusted permit requirements to help enhance safety and address concerns about people riding and parking devices where they are not allowed. These new requirements for bike and scooter share companies…

A Tongue Tasting Itself

The Setup

Three things happened in quick succession:

1. Jack Lindsey at Anthropic published a study showing models possess genuine, limited introspective awareness. They can detect when something's been injected into their "thoughts" — not by observing the output change, but by comparing to their own prior activations. Detection happens before the perturbation affects…

Poseidon’s Catch is available on Kindle Since I write my books from my dreams, sometimes my dreams reflect my life experience. Fiction isn’t always fiction. We survive because of love. Love motivates us, challenges us, and spreads a joy and … Continue reading →

She was only halfway through her run when the man's behavior forced her to stop.

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Microchip’s LAN878x 100BASE-T1 and LAN888x 1000BASE-T1 Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) PHY transceivers are designed for secure, scalable, and deterministic Ethernet connectivity for automotive, avionics, robotics, and industrial systems. We first noticed Microchip SPE solutions in 2023 with the LAN8650/LAN8651 10BASE-T1S and LAN8770 100BASE-T1 transceivers, and they’ve launched other families since…

How much would you pay to have all your necessities handled, 100% job security, and zero worries about about personal safety?

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Despite emergency cell broadcast warnings about a possible threat in the airspace, “life went on” in the Latgale region and people continued their normal daily activities, Armands Ruks, chief of the State Police of Latvia, admitted to journalists on Thursday after a Crisis Management Council meeting. Mārtiņš Baltmanis, head of the State Fire and Rescue […]

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A Vampire for Christmas, Vampires in Manhattan, Book 4, available on Kindle While survival is based on love, having friends and/or family actively involved in one’s life increases chances of surviving. In my book Vampire in the Basement (Sequel to … Continue reading →