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As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Many of us find joy in looking back and taking stock of our reading lives, which is why we here at The New York Times Book Review decided to mark the first 25 years of this century with an ambitious project: to take a first swing at determining the most important, influential books of the era.
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In collaboration with the Upshot, we sent a survey to hundreds of literary luminaries, asking them to name the 10 best books published since Jan. 1, 2000. Stephen King took part. So did Bonnie Garmus, Claudia Rankine, James Patterson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elin Hilderbrand, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Roxane Gay, Marlon James, Sarah MacLean, Min Jin Lee, Jonathan Lethem and Jenna Bush Hager, to name just a few.
As we publish the list over the course of this week, we hope you’ll discover a book you’ve always meant to read, or encounter a beloved favorite you’d like to pick up again. Above all, we hope you’re as inspired and dazzled as we are by the breadth of subjects, voices, opinions, experiences and imagination represented here.”
Cybernews research team believes the leak poses severe dangers to users prone to reusing passwords. The king is dead. Long live the king. Cybernews researchers discovered what appears to be the largest password compilation with a staggering 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords.
The file with the data, titled rockyou2024.txt, was posted on July 4th by forum user ObamaCare. While the user registered in late May 2024, they have previously shared an employee database from the law firm Simmons & Simmons, a lead from an online casino AskGamblers, and student applications for Rowan College at Burlington County. The team cross-referenced the passwords included in the RockYou2024 leak with data from Cybernews’ Leaked Password Checker, which revealed that these passwords came from a mix of old and new data breaches.
“In its essence, the RockYou2024 leak is a compilation of real-world passwords used by individuals all over the world. Revealing that many passwords for threat actors substantially heightens the risk of credential stuffing attacks,” researchers said. Credential stuffing attacks can be severely damaging for users and businesses.
For example, a recent wave of attacks targetingSantander, Ticketmaster, Advance Auto Parts,QuoteWizard, and others was a direct result of credential stuffing attacks against the victims’ cloud service provider, Snowflake. “Threat actors could exploit the RockYou2024 password compilation to conduct brute-force attacks and gain unauthorized access to various online accounts used by individuals who employ passwords included in the dataset,” the team explained…”
The best train travel guide is run by one man, all for free
BoingBoing: “I’ve not found a more accurate or thorough guide to international train travel than the website The Man in Seat 61. It’s the long-running passion project of one die hard train enthusiast, Mark Smith, who writes, updates, and aims to sample all the locomotion this good earth has to offer.
While bus and train aggregates will feed you typical routes and prices, they don’t offer any human insight. And with today’s busted search algorithms, it can be really difficult to find first hand accounts from people who’ve taken those journeys. The Man in Seat 61’s posts, written entirely by a pair of human hands with the occasional added insight from fellow train travel enthusiasts, will tell you whether or not the train you’ll be taking is comfortable, has a layover, is part of a historic route, etc.
A search query requesting information on the feasability of getting from Tashkent to Samarkand will offer convoluted, repetitive “click me!!1!” offers, that will either get you on the right bus, albeit for a heavy commission, and/or stuck at a rural county line crossing trying to decipher what the station clerk’s stoic head shaking means. The same query on Seat 61 offers robust information, timetables, the various kinds of cars and sleeping accomodation, whether the transfer is pleasant and/or quick, general prices and conversion rates, visa requirements, traveller’s reports, and if needed, potential hazards and border closures…”
