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Submission + - French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe (theguardian.com)

AmiMoJo writes: France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of recent cyber-attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe.

The French blood service (EFS) said temperature and defrosting thresholds had been raised to “very high levels” in the attack, adding that its alarm systems had allowed technicians to intervene before the products were compromised.

The EFS is France’s public blood transfusion operator, collecting, testing, preparing and distributing products such as blood, plasma and platelets to more than 1,900 hospitals around the country. It supports more than a million patients a year.

Comment Re:We listened to Trump this once (Score 2, Informative) 349

I suspect a lot of them knew he was lying, but the Democrats are so fucking useless that they just wanted to blow the whole thing up in the hope of something better emerging at the end.

We have seen some actual left wing candidates doing well lately, but I doubt any of them will be able to push the Democratic Party towards the centre.

Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 2) 349

I don't know what you mean by this, but let's just review.

First Obama had an SC pick, but the Republicans refused to hold hearings and he didn't force the issue, so you got another conservative. Then Trump selected two more who he thought would be loyal, and rammed through their confirmations despite serious issues with them.

Democrats seem to be unwilling to use those tactics, and okay they shouldn't be normalized. But also women have lost their bodily autonomy and that's a pretty serious problem. Even if you don't care about that, the fact that the system for selecting SC justices has been shown to be extremely lacking should be a concern.

Hopefully this is the US pulling back from the brink, but I'm not going to celebrate just yet.

Comment Re:just buy a tape drive then (Score 1) 41

The drives are very expensive and kind of shitty. I wish someone made cheaper LTO-8 drives, and that they were more robust and didn't cost so much to service. You can't get parts for them either, which would make repairs a lot cheaper.

I read that Huawei were coming out with their own tape format a few years ago, but it doesn't seem to have reached us.

Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 2) 349

The Democrats seem kind of useless anyway. Under Biden they could have at least tried to reverse the SC ruling on Roe v. Wade, for example, but just... Didn't.

I have a feeling they won't do much this time either. You don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake, and clearly Trump is not helping the Republicans at the moment.

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