OctoSQL & Vulnerability Data – SANS Internet Storm Center

As an avid daily reader of TLDR Information Security I benefit twofold. First, I gain interesting insights and recommendations regarding launches and tools, where I first learned about OctoSQL. Second, concerning vulnerability details inevitably land in my inbox on a near daily basis. Aside from my recommendation to join the TLDR InfoSec mailing list, diary readers also benefit twofold…

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Storm clouds threaten a promised AI revolution in weather prediction

“People just moan about the weather forecast and how bad it is…” Erik AJV/Alamy “It’s an absolutely unbelievable scientific achievement,” says Andrew Charlton-Perez, talking to me by video from his office at the University of Reading, UK. His colleague, Simon Driscoll at the University of Cambridge, nods enthusiastically. “There are so many different applications and…

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Oceans cannot become ‘wild west’, warns UN chief

Esme Stallard Climate and science correspondent Reporting fromUN Oceans Conference, Nice, France Getty Images Unregulated mining in the deep sea should not be allowed to go ahead, the head of the United Nations has warned. “The deep sea cannot become the Wild West,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said at the opening of the UN…

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