Monthly Archives: October 2022

A New York lawyer who once filed 9/11 conspiracy theory lawsuit is charged with assaulting police at Capitol riot

Prosecutors say John O’Kelly tried to disarm police officers on January 6. The Justice Department A New York attorney was arrested this week on several January 6 charges. Prosecutors used facial recognition technology to identify John O’Kelly in photos from the siege. More than 900 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol attack….

VMware bug with 9.8 severity rating exploited to install witch’s brew of malware

(credit: Pixabay) Hackers have been exploiting a now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access in campaigns to install various ransomware and cryptocurrency miners, a researcher at security firm Fortinet said on Thursday. CVE-2022-22954 is a remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access that carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible…

Research Network to Study Pandemic Recovery in Community Colleges

A new network of research teams, led by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) in partnership with the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and the University of California, Davis Wheelhouse Center for Community College Leadership and Research, is embarking on a three-year project to study ways to combat community college enrollment drops and learning loss…

Jasper’s robots assemble fresh meals for nearby apartment dwellers

After attempting to sell its tech to large food service companies, cooking automation startup Jasper has shifted to direct-to-consumer. In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. When Gunnar founded Jasper several years…

HBO’s big ‘House of the Dragon’ finale leaked 2 days before it was supposed to air. The company says it’s ‘aggressively’ policing and issuing takedowns.

HBO’s “House of the Dragon” HBO The season finale of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” reportedly leaked online 2 days before it was supposed to air.  HBO said it’s “aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet.”  HBO has been a victim of leaks before and even filmed multiple endings to “Game of Thrones”…

About 22 million people have applied for student loan forgiveness, Biden said, as GOP states and lawsuits continue to rush to block the program

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University on October 21, 2022. Evan Vucci/AP Applications for student-loan forgiveness went live on October 14. Since then, around 22 million borrowers have applied, President Joe Biden said on Friday. At least three major lawsuits hoping to block the debt relief have been…

A federal judge just temporarily paused Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 9, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images A federal judge just temporarily paused Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan. This ruling was in favor of six GOP-led states who sued, arguing the relief would hurt state revenues. For now, the relief cannot progress…