We might not need more time, we simply need to decide. --Seth Godin

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content – Krebs on Security #internet #security

When Internet users try to visit expired domain names or accidentally navigate to a lookalike “typosquatting” domain, they are typically brought to a placeholder page at a domain parking company that tries to monetize the wayward traffic by displaying links to a number of third-party websites that have paid to have their links shown.

A decade ago, ending up at one of these parked domains came with a relatively small chance of being redirected to a malicious destination: In 2014, researchers found (PDF) that parked domains redirected users to malicious sites less than five percent of the time — regardless of whether the visitor clicked on any links at the parked page.

But in a series of experiments over the past few months, researchers at the security firm Infoblox say they discovered the situation is now reversed, and that malicious content is by far the norm now for parked websites.

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Masonry Techniques of the Inca’s Master Builders - Earth As We Know It #history #culture #longread

The Inca civilization is often depicted as being shrouded in mystery, where how they achieved their incredible stonework is treated like an impenetrable enigma. But the Inca Empire, or Tahuantinsuyu, was still dominant throughout South American at the time of the European conquest. It stretched from Colombia down into Chile and Argentina, with a peak population of over ten million people before the arrival of European pathogens. Much of their culture was witnessed and documented by various early Spanish chroniclers in the 1500s.

Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics | Have I Been Flocked #internet #freespeech

Cyble Inc., a firm marketing itself as a service to “Disrupt Cybercrime,” recently attempted to disrupt something else entirely: government accountability.

Cyble, claiming to act on behalf of Flock, filed a series of demonstrably false abuse reports with our hosting provider, Cloudflare, to scrub this site from the internet. Their strategy? Accuse us of “phishing” and “trademark infringement” to hide the information we publish.

Rome opens long-awaited Colosseum subway station, with displays of unearthed artifacts | AP News #history #architecture

Rome opened two subway stations on Tuesday — one deep beneath the Colosseum — that mix the modernity of high-tech transport with artifacts from an ancient era.

Commuters and tourists entering the station beside the iconic amphitheater can view displays of ceramic vases and plates, stone wells and suspended buckets, as well as the ruins of a cold plunge pool and thermal bath from a first-century dwelling. Screens show the excavation process — serving both to delight archaeology enthusiasts, and justify why it has taken so long to open the station.

The multibillion-euro Metro C subway line has been in the works for two decades but has been slowed by bureaucratic and funding delays and, crucially, the archaeological excavations necessary, given the underground ruins of imperial Roman and medieval civilizations in its way.

Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library #copyrights #information

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 – Egyptian Hieroglyphs #languages

This is not the future #software #futurism

Modern technology is abusive.

A small contingent of power users using niche OSes (like myself) survive by avoiding as much of the tech oligarchs’ world as I can, sure, but overall everything is disgusting, and using FOSS is certainly no silver bullet.

Tech enthusiasts who do not apply critical thinking are even worse, because they get beat up everyday by the things they buy at a premium and they like it because they have this twisted idea of what constitutes progress. This is slowly infusing into the general population, which is also a problem.

People have been trained to be abused by software and by hardware, to ignore their needs, to accept any change as inevitable. I speak of abuse because people have been trained to expect and accept change at the same time, with no agency whatsoever.

Quill OS is an open-source, fully-functional standalone OS for Rakuten Kobo's eReaders. #software

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