Chowderheads To The Left Of Me Mostly Edition

• The US Federal Fucking Government appears to have stuck the secret terrorist watchlist in an Elasticsearch database without a password and connected it directly to the internet. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  In Bahrain.
  
  And it got picked up by search engines and indexed.
  
  The DHS was notified on the 19th of July, and three weeks later the site was taken down.

• Memorial Health System got hacked and patent data was stolen. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Oh, and the attack also disrupted internal computer systems causing radiology and surgical procedures to be cancelled.
  
  
  
• T-Mobile has confirmed it was hacked. (Motherboard)

  We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred.

  Well, thanks, T-Mobile spokesbot.
  
  
  
• Chase Bank wasn't hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  They just had a "technical issue" where they leaked your private data to other customers.
  
  
  
• Rambus (yeah, those jerks) have pushed HBM3 to 8.4GHz.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The point of HBM - high bandwidth memory - is that it has a very wide bus (1024 bits) but originally ran at modest clock speeds (1GHz).  Running a very wide bus with a very high clock speed is even better.

In a totally unexpected turn of events, Cover Corp has announced Hololive English don't-call-it-gen-2.

Two of them have already had their accounts locked by Twitter.  It's something of a tradition.

Right now they all have between 60 and 70,000 subscribers - a few hours after launch and before their major markets have woken up.

Debut streams are this weekend - Sunday JST, exact times TBA.

I talk a lot about Hololive (and other vtubers), but honestly, when the alternative is Hollywood and the dying shreds of the publishing industry, one takes refuge where one can find it.

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It started out with Korone - her English wasn't great but she's so much fun that it didn't matter - and then Coco and Haachama.  Then HoloEN launched, and I found out about VOMS and particularly Pikamee, then I realised that HoloID streams in English a lot of the time, and then they doubled their numbers.

Then it was Vyolfers and her little crew, and Pomu and the gang at Nijisanji EN, and then Pina & Co. at PRISM Project.  And now back to HoloEN, increasing their group from 5 to 11 in the space of a month.

I'm hoping the market will support them all.  HoloEN is guaranteed success and Nijisanji EN seems to be doing well enough for them to go full-time.  I hope PRISM can stay the course too; they're putting together quite a pool of talent.

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 17 2021 11:25 PM (eqaFC)

Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, August 18 2021 12:28 AM (DHVaH)

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