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Article title: "Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users across platforms" ... The second vulnerability was in Microsoft Windows. It is a local privilege escalation in the Windows win32k.sys kernel driver that can be used as a security sandbox escape... We strongly believe this vulnerability may only be exploitable on Windows 7 due to recent exploit mitigations added in newer versions of Windows. To date, we have only observed active exploitation against Windows 7 32-bit systems. Pursuant to Google’s vulnerability disclosure policy, when we discovered the vulnerability we reported it to Microsoft. Today, also in compliance with our policy, we are publicly...

Bottom line: Google is urging Chrome users to update their browsers immediately after a zero-day exploit that could give hackers direct access to a user's OS has been found. The most recent version is 72.0.3626.121, and it's the version you want to be running to make sure you're safe from this exploit. Google is urging users to update Chrome across all platforms after a critical vulnerability was discovered and patched. The vulnerability exploits a security flaw known as CVE-2019-5786. The security flaw is a memory management issue in Chrome's FileReader which gives hackers the opportunity to inject and execute malicious...

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DISCLAIMER: I'm a newb...please forgive any etiquette oversights. These next few days are a fortunate time to look at the real-time hatch and growth of wild Bald Eagles. Time frame to fledge is only 5 months! The kids grow up so fast... Now check this out...the nest is located near a fish spawning-hatchery so you can very often see live fish brought to the nest (by the parents of course) to feed the young. Awesome stuff for school age children's report projects. >>The nest is huge...over 1000 lbs! Hope you enjoy..

SoCal Beaches Magazine Published on Sep 21, 2009 "Check out this top of the line 1934 Ford woodie hot rod photographed at Moonlght State Beach in Encinitas with SoCal Beaches Magazine swimsuit model Melany.This video was shot at the end of the 2009 Wavecrest Woodie Car Show.This 1934 Ford Hot Rod has won numerous car shows and is owned by R. Michael Murphy of San Diego."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHap3RV5mrE

1959 Chevrolet Impala Convertible on My Car Story with Lou Costabile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABHnbtUYEV8

Tajine (or tadjine or tagine), which derives from words for a kind of earthenware cooking pot, can also refer to the Moroccan or Algerian stew, often a sweet-and-savory or sweet/sour combination, that is traditionally cooked in it. (There is also a Tunisian dish called ‘tajine’ which is different altogether from the more commonly known stew, being more like a frittata. ) The tajine generally begins with searing of the meat, poultry or fish, and then the addition of sauteed vegetables, sometimes dried fruit, and herbs and spices. The dish steams under the cone-shaped cover of the pot - needing very...

MONTMELO, Spain -- After 64 hours of track time spread over eight days at the Circuit de Catalunya, Ferrari and Mercedes were split by just 0.003 seconds on the final day of preseason testing. That is a remarkably small margin when you consider there has been a significant regulation change and a full winter of development since the two rivals last met on track, but look beyond the headline-grabbing times and the evidence suggests it is last year's runner up Ferrari that has moved ahead. EDITOR'S PICKS Lewis fears Ferrari's advantage over Mercedes is 0.5s a lap With just two...

Any recommendations for ammo reloading software? I'm really enjoying the activity and am trying to move on beyond the novice stage.

This video is from 2017. It was meant to try to sell the car. I'm posting it because I really like the car. I'm sure it's sold by now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3PuAlSXayA

THE FORMER CONGRESSMAN AND LIKELY 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER RODE A SURLY STEAMROLLER WITH ONE BRAKE AND PINK GRIPS. BY RILEY MISSEL Feb 28, 2019 Beto O’Rourke was spotted riding a singlespeed bike home from a political meeting in Texas on Wednesday. O’Rourke is a known cyclist and runner. The former congressman and Senate candidate is expected to launch a primary campaign for the 2020 presidential election. Former Democratic congressman, U.S. Senate candidate, and likely 2020 presidential contender Beto O’Rourke made a grand exit from a political meeting in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday: He rode his bike home. Amid a...

It looks like you want to increase your lethality. Do you want some help with that? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded to employees' concerns over the company's decision to flog its HoloLens tech to the US military.The deal, worth nearly half a billion dollars, was signed off last November and will see the US military just as disappointed with its field of view as the rest of us, to the tune of 100,000 units.At the time, the goal of the project was to "increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide and engage before the enemy".Microsoft to staff:...

It was full of memories of paper routes, trips to California and Dennis’ time in the U.S. Navy, but had gotten run down and in need of a restoration. Dennis and his wife Susan were doing just that when they got the news earlier this month that it was stolen from her parents’ garage in Indianapolis, where they were keeping it while they worked on it. “We just now were in a position to put some money into it,” Susan told Fox59. “And we’ve put quite a bit of work into it already, it was almost done.” Susan’s parents were...

1940 Ford Coupe street rod (~7 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYYryter3Q

Drone shot of ergets and herons roosting in the middle of shallow lake. Ducks on the wing Sandhill cranes in a low speed, low altitude fly bye. Nothing says breakfast like a fat, juicy rat. Anhinga or water turkey. (Shot this with my new to me $5.00 Nikon P600)

Back in 2017, Ford Performance announced it would have a supercharger kit available for the refreshed 2018 Ford Mustang GT. It promised 700 horsepower and 610 pound-feet of torque, and was due in early 2018, but nothing came of it. Thankfully, it seems to have simply been delayed, because the supercharger system is now on sale and available for not just 2018, but 2019 Mustang GTs, too. The kit for these latest Mustangs delivers on the 700 horsepower with a 2.65-liter TVS positive displacement supercharger that delivers 12 psi of boosted air to the engine, along with new fuel rails,...

Cogs and gears are fascinating bits to play with as a maker. So many of us explore and tinker with the mesmerizing movement of these simple machines. Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworking was exploring just how easy these things were to create when his canine companion Bonnie came up and let him know that his efforts would be better spent, in her opinion, petting her. This was the moment that Mike conceived the ultimate dog petting apparatus. A long time woodworker and even longer time fan of rube goldberg-esque contraptions, Matt knew he was on to something fun. It took...

These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner Well I’m not braggin’ babe so don’t put me down But I’ve got the fastest set of wheels in town When something comes up to me he don’t even try ‘Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly– Little Deuce Coupe, the Beach Boys 1965 Amphicar, Model 770 — 1965  You like our post ‘The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome‘ so much that we combined our wit and came with another: ‘The 1960s American Car...

"The most thrilling part of the coloring process is when suddenly the person looks back at you as if he’s alive" - Olga Shirnina “My heart yearned to be there, in the boiling caldron of war, to be baptized in its fire and scorched in its lava” – Maria Bochkareva, commander of the Russian Women’s death battalion in her 1919 autobiography Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile.  Maria Bochkareva Color can bring the past to the present, giving black and white images a spritz of life. We’ve seen color photos of the Russian Empire in Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s...

Today’s Cryptogram HTM’K CJ RFPIJH YZTFMH CG KIJ BJYZP NM GTFZ DNMH. CJ VJH CG KIJ HZJYDP TB GTFZ IJYZK. ZTG K. CJMMJKK You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications, unfortunately they are copyrighted so we can't use them here. So, we're just going to make up our own. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be...