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NFPA to develop fire risk assessment tool in response to tragic high-rise fires incidents

In light of a recent series of fires in high-rise buildings with combustible facades, including the Grenfell tower fire, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has initiated a project to develop a fire risk assessment tool for these types of buildings to assist local authorities globally with fire safety in their communities.





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Unpatchable 'Starbleed' Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers

A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change the functionality, and even implant hardware Trojans. The details of the attacks against Xilinx 7-Series and Virtex-6 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been covered in a paper titled "The




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Researchers Uncover Novel Way to De-anonymize Device IDs to Users' Biometrics

Researchers have uncovered a potential means to profile and track online users using a novel approach that combines device identifiers with their biometric information. The details come from a newly published research titled "Nowhere to Hide: Cross-modal Identity Leakage between Biometrics and Devices" by a group of academics from the University of Liverpool, New York University, The Chinese




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New Malware Jumps Air-Gapped Devices by Turning Power-Supplies into Speakers

Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply units that come with modern computing devices. Dubbed 'POWER-SUPPLaY,' the latest research builds on a series of





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Tassie Devil Joeys Are Fiercely Cute!

No serious, I want one of these.




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Next nycdevops meetup: Kubernetes Informers (Wed, June 19)

Robert Ross (a.k.a. Bobby Tables) will be the speaker at the next nycdevops meetup on Wed, une 19, 2019.

Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/

NOTE: Different day and location!

  • Title: Staying Informed with Kubernetes Informers
  • Speaker: Robert Ross (Bobby Tables) from FireHydrant
  • Date: Wed, June 19, 2019
  • Location: Compass, 90 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10011

Kubernetes state is changing all the time. Pods are being created. Deployments are adding more replicas. Load balancers are being created from services. All of these things can happen without anyone noticing. But sometimes we need to notice, however, for when we need to react to such events. What if we need to push the change to an audit log? When if we want to inform a Slack room about a new deployment? In Kubernetes, this is possible with the informers that are baked into the API and Go client. In this talk we'll learn how informers work, and how to receive updates when resources change using a simple Go application.

SPEAKER BIO:

Bobby is the founder of FireHydrant.io, and also previously worked as a staff software engineer at Namely, and also built things at DigitalOcean. He likes bleeding edge tech and making software that helps teams build better better systems. From deploying Spinnaker, Istio, and Kubernetes, he has cursed at a lack of docs and code spelunked through the code and loves telling the war stories about them.

Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/




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November nycdevops meetup: DevSecOps and supply chain attack

Irina Tishelman from Sonatype will present a talk "Automate or Die - DevSecOps in the Age of Software Supply Chain Attacks" at the November 14, 2019 nycdevops meetup.

The meetup meets at the Stack Overflow office in NYC.

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/265281451/

You don't want to miss this one!




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DevOpsDays NYC 2020 Call For Participation!

DevOpsdays NYC is happening March 3-4, 2020. The Call For Participation (CFP) is now open!

If you have any ideas that you want to share with the local community please submit your talks using the link below:

https://www.papercall.io/dodnyc2020




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Get your DevOpsDays NYC tickets now!

DevOpsDays is about 2 weeks away! Commencing on Tuesday, March 3 and lasting for 2 days, this is the best NYC-area DevOps conference you can attend. The speaker lineup is very impressive (if I say so myself :-) ).

The best part about attending a local conference is that your boss only has to approve the ticket price (no hotel or flights, eh?).

Looking forward to seeing you there!

P.S. I'm speaking on the last day. It will be all new material that I haven't presented before. Please check it out!




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Betsy DeVos Releases New Title IX Rule Favoring Accused Sexual Assault Perpetrators

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has issued the final version of a new rule governing how schools must handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education. The new 2,033-page regulation increases privileges for students and faculty accused of assault and requires colleges to conduct live hearings to adjudicate allegations, a drastic change from the more survivor-friendly Obama-era policies. “This new regulation requires schools to act in meaningful ways to support survivors of sexual misconduct, without sacrificing important safeguards to ensure a fair and transparent process,” said DeVos in a statement. But women’s rights and survivor advocacy groups have condemned the rule changes since they were first proposed in 2018. They argue that the new rule unfairly favors those accused of assault, reduces schools’ responsibility for addressing harassment, and discourages survivors from coming forward. The regulation gives college students accused of assault the right to have representatives cross-examine their accusers in a live hearing, which advocacy organizations say will discourage survivors from coming forward. The regulation also reduces colleges’ responsibility to investigate allegations, only requiring investigations for complaints made to certain designated employees such as Title IX Coordinators, through a formal process. […]




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Geneticists pump the brakes on DNA, revealing key developmental process

Researchers at Princeton have revealed the inner workings of a gene repression mechanism in fruit fly embryos, adding insight to the study of human diseases.




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EPA Issues Order to Seal Shield, LLC in Orlando, Florida to Stop Selling Unregistered Pesticides and a Misbranded Pesticide Device

ATLANTA (April 24, 2020) -- The U.S.




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EPA Highlights Enforcement Actions Against Those Who Violate the Defeat Device and Tampering Prohibitions under the Clean Air Act

WASHINGTON (April 30, 2020) — The U.S.




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Geographic Mobility in America: Evidence from Cell Phone Data -- by M. Keith Chen, Devin G. Pope

Traveling beyond the immediate surroundings of one’s residence can lead to greater exposure to new ideas and information, jobs, and greater transmission of disease. In this paper, we document the geographic mobility of individuals in the U.S., and how this mobility varies across U.S. cities, regions, and income classes. Using geolocation data for ~1.7 million smartphone users over a 10-month period, we compute different measures of mobility, including the total distance traveled, the median daily distance traveled, the maximum distance traveled from one’s home, and the number of unique haunts visited. We find large differences across cities and income groups. For example, people in New York travel 38% fewer total kilometers and visit 14% fewer block-sized areas than people in Atlanta. And, individuals in the bottom income quartile travel 12% less overall and visit 13% fewer total locations than the top income quartile.




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Chinese Loans Pose Risks to Developing World

China is the largest creditor in the world, funding infrastructure projects in the developing world in exchange for access to raw materials. A new study shows that the risk of a new debt crisis is significant.




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Bring on the e-scooters: A Bird executive explains how New York City can smartly and safely welcome the micromobility devices

Electric scooters are coming to New York and, with a little planning and preparation, they can safely thrive here. To understand how, it helps to start with some context.




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Devonte Green’s complicated path to the NBA Draft

He is preparing for the 2020 NBA Draft in a year where basketball is no longer the same.




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Redevelopment deal reached for former St. Paul Ford plant

A redevelopment deal has been reached for the former Ford Motor Co. plant in St. Paul that would feature thousands of new homes powered by renewable energy, officials announced Tuesday.




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‘We paras are the front lines:’ NYC schools confront devastating coronavirus death toll among classroom paraprofessionals

Twenty-two of the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals have died from the coronavirus, a rate four times higher than the rest of the 150,000-employee Department of Education, according to the agency’s data.




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Repeat Software celebrates 10 years of software development

Since its launch in 2009, Repeat Signage digital signage software is now in daily use in 31 countries across a wide variety of applications and vertical markets. A big thank you to all our customers and reseller partners.




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Lab-grown mini-brains highlight developmental differences between humans and great apes

In a new study, brain-like organoids made from human cells were slower to mature than their chimpanzee and macaque counterparts.




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Best Game Ever: Paul George punctuated playoff win with devastating dunk

Paul George was in his third season in the NBA when he led the Indiana Pacers to a win over LeBron James' Miami Heat in Game 2 of the conference finals.




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Vanessa Bryant 'devastated' by allegations that deputies shared Kobe crash photos

The Los Angeles Times first reported allegations that deputies were sharing graphic crash photos. Vanessa Bryant's lawyer has asked for an investigation.




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U.K. Airlines, Airports Fear 'Devastating Impact' Of Possible Quarantine Rules

Trade groups expect the British government to roll out new coronavirus travel restrictions on Sunday, including a quarantine for out-of-country arrivals. And they're already pushing back publicly.




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Dodgers' Caleb Ferguson develops third pitch with an eye toward becoming a starter

Dodgers reliever Caleb Ferguson is developing a hard slider to complement his fastball and slow curveball, so that eventually he can move to the rotation.




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Devonte Green’s complicated path to the NBA Draft

He is preparing for the 2020 NBA Draft in a year where basketball is no longer the same.




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UCLA seniors 'devastated' as campus cancels traditional graduation ceremonies

UCLA will cancel traditional graduation ceremonies and hold them remotely to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Chancellor Gene Block announced Wednesday.




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Editorial: Betsy DeVos hits the reset button on campus sexual harassment rules

In a rare bit of reasonable regulatory activity by the Trump administration, new rules governing sexual assault accusations at colleges strike the right balance -- for the most part.




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22 ways you can help arts groups devastated by coronavirus closures

Donate the cost of a canceled ticket, take an online dance class, buy a piece of fine art: Here are 22 ways to help artists weather the coronavirus storm.




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This 81-year-old was L.A.'s most devoted museum-goer until COVID-19 shuttered cultural institutions

81-year-old Ben Barcelona is L.A.'s most devoted museum-goer. But what happens when the coronavirus shutters culture in California?




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New survey asked artists what COVID-19 did to their jobs. The results are devastating

Artist Relief, which has given grants to 200 artists in need, reports that nearly 52,000 people have applied. A survey shows two out of three people are unemployed.




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L.A. City Council working on turning developer fees for cultural events into arts relief fund

L.A. developers pay fees to support public arts programs. Councilman David Ryu has proposed turning that fund into relief grants for arts groups.




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Schizophrenia devastated a family: Robert Kolker did their story justice

How Robert Kolker came to write "Hidden Valley Road," about the Galvin family and the disease that tore through them, with such empathy.




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Letters to the Editor: The Postal Service helps define our nation. Losing it would be devastating

The Postal Service is as important to the United States as its language and its highways. Losing it would forever change the country for the worse.




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Land grab: Undeveloped parcels around L.A. County for about $100,000

Looking to build your dream home? Take a look at what raw land roughly $100,000 buys right now in six L.A. County communities.




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Feds tweak driverless-car guidelines, seek to balance safety and tech development

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao says safety is the top priority for robot cars – but so is intellectual property.




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You're devastated your wedding was canceled. So is your wedding band

Playing weddings was a safe, steady gig for musicians. Until coronavirus. Now wedding bands, DJs and planners wonder when their next gig might come.




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Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

Twenty years ago at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, countries adopted Agenda 21 — a blueprint to rethink economic growth, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection. Marking that anniversary, this year sees Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, with aims to get bold agreements to address things like poverty, sustainable development, decent jobs, etc.

This page provides coverage of recent events via Inter Press Service’s news feed.

Read full article: Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development




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Site Development Engineer

TERRA Engineering is seeking an experienced Project Engineer to join our Site Development Department in our corporate headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. Job Description: Engineer will be responsible for the preparation of design plans, details, construction budget, code compliance, design calcula




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High Voltage Development Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities Document test methods, perform system testing, and document test results for HV system performance testing Lab development testing and documentation of power electronic subsystems Testing of high voltage, high power electronic components including system bring up an




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Level 3 - Software/Web Developer

Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI security clearance required. Please do not apply if you do not meet this minimum requirement. Role & Responsibilities: Supports software and web architecture development, requirements analysis, process execution and evaluation, selection and evaluation o




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TS/SCI DevOps Engineer

Position: TS/SCI Mid-Level DevOps Engineer Location: Alexandria, VA Clearance: TS/SCI Required XTS Needs Experienced DevOps Engineers for a New, Innovative Project to Build a Data Lake for the Intelligence Community! Email Robert.Chambers@xts-inc.com if interested or apply here. Description




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DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: Under the direction of the Software Manager, the DevOps Engineer is someone who will work collaboratively with software engineering on a common goal of creating high quality, stable software in accordance with company policies and procedures. Duties include managing build server




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Sr. Application Developer

AKVARR, INC. has an opening for the following full-time professional position at its Gaithersburg, MD location; one (1) Sr. Application Developer resp. for designing, developing, and testing software solutions utilizing Java, J2EE, JavaScript, C#.NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C++, C, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, MS SQ




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Software Development Engineer, Systs., Sr.

Software Development Engineer, Systs., Sr. position avail. at YAHOO INC in Sunnyvale, CA. Work on complex probl. of diverse scope where analysis of sit. or data requires in-depth eval. of factors difficult to define, design, build, implmt., modify, test, debug & deploy SW systs., large-scale infra.




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New Lead Developer – Robert “ylee” Wiley

Today I would like to introduce myself and to remind the Bodhi Community that development of Moksha is continuing, and we are slowly preparing for a Bodhi 5.1 release. I need no introduction to...




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South Devon: Dog days relaxing in a plush riverside retreat



FLUFFY bedding, bowls of treats and a dog shammy awaited our Labrador, Tehya, when we rolled up at Dominoes holiday home in Stoke Gabriel, South Devon - and it wasn't too shabby for Tehya's two-legged friends either, having been luxuriously refurbished just a couple of years ago.




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Keir Starmer's devastating secret weapon to rally voters against Boris Johnson exposed



KEIR STARMER's secret weapon against Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been revealed by Professor Tim Bale who detailed what the Labour leader can succeed in.