Today is Tom Petty’s birthday. I’ve been a big fan of Tom Petty since I first heard “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That” on the radio as a nine-year-old kid. My Appreciation for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers has only grown over the years as I’ve come to understand the power of Tom’s empathy for the underdog in his storytelling and the band’s dynamic chemistry in their musical arrangements and performances. I was lucky enough to work with Tom on several projects before he passed, and I was honored when Adria Petty reached out to me to illustrate a portrait of her dad for the cover of the “Tom Petty: An American Treasure” box set. With this year marking 50 years since the release of the first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album, Adria approached me again to create an early career portrait of Tom as a young man hungry to break through with his music and voice. I made this portrait of Tom to capture the intensity, attitude, and vigor of his early career. Those traits persisted and were eventually widely recognized as a tenacious working-class ethic, but the Heartbreakers’ debut album wasn’t an immediate hit, despite featuring the now-classic “American Girl” and “Breakdown.” I’ve always admired independence, determination, and vision, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had all those things in spades. Through this collaboration with Tom Petty’s estate, we are proud to support ACLU in their efforts to ensure that every eligible voter has the information and the right to cast their ballot and have their vote counted. Thanks, Tom, for 50 years of music and mojo, and for never backing down!

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Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain's largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project's Essex data center might not receive sufficient grid power until the early to mid-2030s. "Its departure leaves Nscale without a publicly announced customer for the site, although the neocloud insists the project is still going ahead," reports The Register. From the report: When the deal was announced in September 2025, the plan was to pack 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs into a 50MW facility, with room to expand to 90MW. Microsoft would use the computing power for its Azure cloud services, with the first chips expected in early 2027. One important detail remained: how to power it.

As The Guardian reported last month, UK Power Networks warned Nscale that the grid capacity needed might not be available until the 2030s. A UK Power Networks spokesperson told The Register it could not discuss individual connections due to obligations under Section 105 of the Utilities Act. "However, in general, many datacenters, whilst they can connect to our distribution network, are awaiting works on the national transmission network which we do not own," the spokesperson said.

Nscale, meanwhile, isn't letting the small matter of losing its biggest customer dampen its enthusiasm. "We remain committed to both the Loughton project and the UK and we are exploring alternative power sources for the site, in addition to other expansion sites in the UK. Our relationship with Microsoft remains strong and long-term, and this unfortunate London-wide grid issue has no impact on our other contracts," Nscale told The Register.

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Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Rymill Park, Adelaide

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Rundle Street, Adelaide

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Rundle Street, Adelaide

A test account protected by "Password1" helped an intruder steal personal data relating to 3,300 people, mostly children, in a ransomware attack that has drawn regulatory rebukes for two Welsh organizations. The Information Commission's Office (ICO) issued reprimands rather than fines to Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales, also known as Data Cymru. According to the ICO, altnet ONL provided server and connectivity infrastructure, licensing, and support to Data Cymru, which helps public bodies across Wales make effective use of data. On November 1, 2024, Data Cymru suffered a ransomware attack after a miscreant exploited a test account called Test2 to infiltrate its network and encrypt 182.7 GB of data housed in a file server and an internal database server. "Before deploying the ransomware, the threat actor exfiltrated 42 GB of data from a primary domain controller, a file server and an SQL server," the ICO said on Tuesday in its reprimand of ONL [PDF]. ONL told the ICO it created the test account on January 13, 2012, during its initial project for Data Cymru. "ONL confirmed that the creation of the 'Test2' account was likely intended to test user account access before migrating 'real' users to its services," the ICO said. "When it was created, the 'Test2' account was given the password of 'Password1'." The ICO cited Bitwarden's password strength tool, which rated "Password1" as "very weak" and estimated a cracking time of less than a second. "The local administrator accounts on the three impacted systems all had the same password. This meant that once one system had been breached, the local account hashes could be collected and used by the threat actor to authenticate access to other systems on the Data Cymru network," the regulator added. "ONL confirmed that it did not carry out any reviews of local administrator accounts following their initial deployment. This meant these accounts remained active, regardless of whether they were used, and continued to use the same default passwords set at the time of their creation in January 2012, as part of ONL's initial project with Data Cymru, for more than 12.5 years." The data watchdog reprimanded ONL under Article 32 of the UK GDPR because it failed to put in place "appropriate technical and organisational measures" to ensure processing systems and services were safe, and it didn't regularly assess or evaluate those measures. It found ONL had no auditing procedures to review user accounts within Data Cymru's Active Directory. The ICO's separate reprimand of Data Cymru [PDF] also detailed failures in its security arrangements. "Password1 is not an appropriate password, it is a wide-open door to nefarious actors," said ICO head of investigations David Doodson. "This incident shows how a single weak password, attached to an account that was no longer needed, can leave the door open to a serious cyber-attack that can affect thousands. "The responsibility for these failures did not sit with one organisation alone. ONL created the test account whilst Data Cymru retained overall control of its network, including the ability to instruct ONL to create or remove accounts. Neither had put in place sufficiently clear and effective measures to ensure that old accounts were routinely identified and removed." ®

Ze steunt de vernielingen, maar wordt gelukkig wel berispt door een onderneemster van kleur

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Okay zit als volgt. De 23-jarige Lola-Fleur Whittaker werd in deze show gepresenteerd als 'content-creator' die vertelt hoe haar moeder als lerares Engels haar eigen "pakje met koekjes" meeneemt naar werk, omdat ze de schoolkantine niet kan betalen. Zozeer worden zij en de haren geteisterd door armoede, en daarom spreekt ze haar onomwonden steun uit voor de vernielingen van afgelopen weekend. 

Vervolgens bleek dat ze gewoon verkiesbaar was op Melenchons LFI-lijst voor de gemeenteraad van Parijs. En daarna kwam de geruststelling dat ze niet heel binnenkort om zal komen van de honger. Haar gehele Instagram staat namelijk VOL met welgestelde reisfoto's naar o.a. Maleisë, Egypte en Griekenland, ze studeerde drie jaar aan de University of Manchester, wat voor niet-Britse studenten zo'n 35.000 euro PER JAAR kost, ze heeft zelf al zo'n 90.000 euro verdiend met het geven van Franse lessen en de knapperd links op deze afstudeerfoto is ene Simon Whittaker, voormalig manager bij Shell, Nokia en momenteel Alcatel, en dan gaat ook nog het gerucht dat haar vader voormalig Kamerlid is.

Kortom, het geschetste beeld dat haar familie in zulke abjecte armoede leeft dat ze geen andere keus heeft de rellen te steunen, is wat wankel. En ze heeft het niet van een vreemde overigens, want d'r moeder post ook allerlei Mélenchon-foto's, Palestijnse vlaggen en aanverwante omnizaken. Kortom, het is gewoon echt zó'n familie. En dat lijkt Frankrijk niet ontgaan, want onder elke foto op haar hele Instagram staan echt talloze salon-commentaren.

Er hebben al 22 mensen gedoneerd op de donatiepagina voor een betere lunch voor Lola's moeder (satire, opbrengst gaat naar plaatselijk Frans doel).

'Ja maar 17 oktober 1961' (die moord op Algerijnense betogers in Parijs door Franse politie)

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De hele familie in mapje 'Islamogauchiste'

Abjecte armoede!

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'Een chemisch zuivere salonsocialist, het is kunst'

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Donatiepagina voor de schoollunch van Lola's moeder! (satire)

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In the latest episode of official podcast, F1 Nation, Jolyon Palmer and Alex Jacques discuss how Red Bull can build on their impressive turnaround in the future.

De Raad van Kerken ziet vanuit idealen van solidariteit en barmhartigheid graag dat kerken voor een periode van drie maanden één of meerdere gezinnen een plek geven. Daarmee moet ruimte vrijkomen in de „overvolle asielopvang”.