Two days after the end of the United Nations climate conference in Scotland, with a new global agreement in hand and thousands of pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by governments, corporations and big institutions such as Yale, you’d have to figure the people who played a key role would suffer a bit of a comedown. Let’s say they’re influential professors at Yale, named Daniel Esty and Anthony Leiserowitz. They’ve returned to the real world from a gathering of 40,000 people who, for all their disagreements, flew to Glasgow (yeah, burning a lot of fuel) to find a way out of the environmental meltdown that will happen in a few decades if we don’t take dramatic action. They realize the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) didn’t go far… Source link

Job Summary The SEVIS coordinator is responsible for the administration of the MyStatus (Sunapsis) system, ensuring SEVIS compliance with U.S. Government Agencies. Position serves as Alternate Responsible Officer and Designated School Official for Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. This role also coordinates assessment efforts in the Office for International Students and Scholars.  Job Description Responsibility for overall administration of MyStatus, under the oversight of Associate Director of OISS. Develop processes to ensure integrity in data entry, SEVIS-reporting obligations and compliance requirements occur within established regulatory time frames. Responsible for monitoring alerts and errors in SEVIS and Sunapsis. This requires ensuring resolution and liaising… Source link

Job Summary The SEVIS coordinator is responsible for the administration of the MyStatus (Sunapsis) system, ensuring SEVIS compliance with U.S. Government Agencies. Position serves as Alternate Responsible Officer and Designated School Official for Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. This role also coordinates assessment efforts in the Office for International Students and Scholars.  Job Description Responsibility for overall administration of MyStatus, under the oversight of Associate Director of OISS. Develop processes to ensure integrity in data entry, SEVIS-reporting obligations and compliance requirements occur within established regulatory time frames. Responsible for monitoring alerts and errors in SEVIS and Sunapsis. This requires ensuring resolution and liaising… Source link

Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Ransomware attackers are probing known common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) for weaknesses and quickly capitalizing on them, launching attacks faster than vendor teams can patch them. Unfortunately, ransomware attackers are also making attacks more complex, costly, and challenging to identify and stop, acting on potential targets’ weaknesses faster than enterprises can react. Two recent research studies — Ivanti’s latest ransomware report, conducted with Cyber Security Works and Cyware, and a second study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cyware — show there’s a widening gap between how quickly enterprises… Source link

From a perfume that promises world peace to a miracle food that could remove the fragrance from cat poo. Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world. Litter-al genius   The world’s cat lovers — and those who have to live with them — can finally breathe easy. Taiwanese researchers have cracked the feline equivalent of cold fusion — cat poo that doesn’t stink. While it doesn’t exactly smell of roses, they discovered that the litter of cats fed with silkworm pupae is nowhere near as noxious. As well as the whiff, a natural byproduct of silk production also eliminates harmful intestinal bacteria. Whether eight of out 10 cats prefer pupae to pollock is another matter, but in tests they eagerly ate up the deliciously gloopy insects flavoured with tuna,… Source link

L’Interdit eau de parfume — French for forbidden — was originally created by Hubert de Givenchy and perfumer Francis Fabron in 1957. The aldehydic-floral scent was made up of violet, jasmine, woods, grass and rose, making it one of the first delicate, powdery fragrances to be launched by a revered fashion house. As the story goes, the scent was made specifically for Audrey Hepburn, who wore it for months before it was made available publicly. She went on to the be the original face, and L’Interdit cemented its place as one of the most iconic fine fragrances of all time. It was reimagined in 2018 but this time fronted by actress Rooney Mara. Strong, graceful and supremely talented, Rooney couldn’t be a better successor — so much so, that’s she’s also the face… Source link

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown into relief the way that scientific facts can be distorted by commercial imperatives, unconscious bias or self-delusion as they make their way into the collective consciousness. Walter Gratzer was a pioneer in the subgenre of science writing that calls out such biases, yet as a researcher in molecular biology he celebrated the self-correcting tendencies within science as well as gently mocking its failings. Gratzer, who has died aged 89, was a modest man who never became a household name, yet he influenced the way science has come to be communicated beyond the confines of highly specialised journals, and his writings encouraged readers in the research community to raise their heads from the bench and reflect on what they were doing. He first ventured into… Source link

IRELAND HAS A new plan for how it will reach 70% renewable electricity generation by the end of this decade.  The government’s revised Climate Action Plan released last week set out that the emissions generated from electricity must fall by between 62% and 81% by 2030 compared to 2018 levels. This is the biggest goal of any sector. The national grid operator EirGrid has released the details of a roadmap for how it says this can be achieved. It sets out a number of projects largely focused on upgrading the current electricity grid used in Ireland to move away from the use of fossil fuels.  More than 40% of electricity currently comes from renewables in Ireland.  The new grid plan “seeks to minimise the impact on communities while still… Source link

The Q3 2021 report revealed a 4.5% increase in CVEs associated with ransomware and a 3.4% increase in ransomware families compared with Q2 2021. A dozen new vulnerabilities were used in ransomware attacks this quarter, bringing the total number of bugs associated with ransomware to 278. That’s a 4.5 percent increase over Q2, according to researchers. Five of the newbies can be used to achieve remote code execution (RCE), while two can be used to exploit web apps and launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. That’s never good news, but it’s particularly teeth-grinding given that this quarter also saw distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks shatter records, according to a separate study. The news about the new vulnerabilities that have… Source link

The number of security flaws associated with ransomware rose from 266 to 278 last quarter, according to security firm Ivanti. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Ransomware attackers use a few different tactics to initially breach an organization. One method is through phishing emails. Another is through brute-force attacks. But an always popular trick is to exploit a known security vulnerability. A report released Tuesday by security firm Ivanti looks at the rise in vulnerabilities exploited by ransomware attacks. As detailed in its “Ransomware Index Update Q3 2021,” Ivanti found that the number of security vulnerabilities… Source link