Interesting that they can map the location of Ukrainian forces so accurately. Why geo-fence the satellite coverage? Would it interfere with the systems sold to Russia?

https://www.ft.com/content/9a7b922b-2435-4ac7-acdb-0ec9a6dc8397

Ukrainian forces report Starlink outages during push against Russia

… Some of the outages led to a “catastrophic” loss of communication in recent weeks, said one senior Ukrainian government official with direct knowledge of the issue. Many were reported as soldiers breached the frontline into Russian-controlled territory and some during pitched battles, the official said, speaking under the condition of anonymity.

They were acute in the south around the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, but also occurred along the frontline in eastern Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk, the official said.

All four regions are the focus of an intense Ukrainian counteroffensive and were claimed last month by President Vladimir Putin as part of Russia after referendums staged by Kremlin proxies.

… Roman Sinicyn, a co-ordinator at the Serhiy Prytula Charity, a foundation that donates Starlink systems to the Ukrainian armed forces, said the problem may be occurring because SpaceX was trying to prevent its misuse by Russian forces.

Several questions starting with, Who fills out this questionnaire? (It has a place for a parent’s signature)

https://www.pogowasright.org/florida-schools-collected-student-athletes-menstrual-data-its-raising-post-roe-privacy-concerns/

Florida Schools Collected Student-Athletes’ Menstrual Data — & It’s Raising Post-Roe Privacy Concerns

Katherine Speller writes:

A student-athlete physical evaluation containing student’s reproductive health data drew criticism from parents and advocates earlier this week when it became clear that the software used to collect the information was not one guaranteed to protect student privacy — particularly in the aftermath of Roe v Wade being overturned.

The physical evaluation form (available online), which according to the Palm Beach Post had been used by Florida schools for several years, included optional questions about menstruation that are, generally, questions doctors and healthcare providers might ask: “When was your first menstrual period? When was your most recent menstrual period? How much time do you usually have from the start of one period to the start of another? How many periods have you had in the last year? What was the longest time between periods in the last year?”

Read more at SheKnows.

Perspective. Can we agree that the greatest spending occurs where the need(risk) is greatest?

https://www.darkreading.com/tech-trends/cybersecurity-will-account-for-nearly-one-quarter-of-ai-software-market-through-2025

Cybersecurity Will Account for Nearly One-Quarter of AI Software Market Through 2025

By 2025, the artificial intelligence (AI) software market will expand from 2021's $33 billion to $64 billion, according to a new report. And cybersecurity is the fastest-growing category of AI spend, experiencing a rise in spending of 22.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

That's according to the "Global AI Software Forecast 2022" from Forrester Research.

Trick or Treat! (Where the Trick might be a computer crime?)

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/08/buggy_ikea_smart_bulbs/

Make your neighbor think their house is haunted by blinking their Ikea smart bulbs

… In a couple write-ups about the bugs, the researchers described how CVE-2022-39064, the vulnerability in the Tradfri smart bulbs, could be exploited by sending a single malformed Zigbee frame over the air that makes the light blink. Resending the frame multiple times forces the bulb to perform a factory reset, which erases its configuration and other information, such as brightness level.