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The compromise of SolarWinds software used by government agencies and technology companies has also affected several U.S. colleges and universities, though the leaders of those institutions have not reported any major fallout from the incident.
Reports that hackers of suspected Russian origin had inserted malicious code into software provided by the Austin, Texas-based technology company SolarWinds first emerged earlier this month. The company said the incident may have affected as many as 18,000 customers using a network management product called Orion, according to SEC documents. The compromised software was used to spy on private companies like the cybersecurity firm FireEye and U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury Department and the Department of Energy, though federal agencies have not been forthcoming about the true extent of the incident.
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New York Times managed to find some young people whose silver spoons provide a sour taste in their mouths. To hear them talk, their good fortune is making them sick.
“I want to build a world where someone like me, a young person who controls tens of millions of dollars, is impossible,” Sam Jacobs, 25, told the
Times. Jacobs went off to college a normal young man and came back a socialist. Suddenly his family’s “extreme, plutocratic wealth” became too much of a burden for him.
“He wants to put his inheritance toward ending capitalism,” Zoë Beery wrote for the
Susan Samoriski is Greenfield Recorder’s 2020 Citizen of the Year
Susan Samoriski, the Greenfield Recorder’s 2020 Citizen of the Year, at the Mary Lyon Foundation office in the Mohawk Trail Regional School building. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Susan Samoriski, the Greenfield Recorder’s 2020 Citizen of the Year, at the Mary Lyon Foundation office in the Mohawk Trail Regional School building. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Susan Samoriski, the Greenfield Recorder’s 2020 Citizen of the Year, at the Mary Lyon Foundation office in the Mohawk Trail Regional School building. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 12/27/2020 11:03:23 PM
SHELBURNE FALLS Susan Samoriski says she has always been a “doer,” sleeping little at night, so she could get things done and enjoy every minute of her work.
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Coffee fundraiser to support anti-racism training at The Academy at Charlemont
The Academy at Charlemont is holding a coffee fundraiser to support an anti-racism training day. Dreamstime
Published: 12/23/2020 4:38:57 PM
CHARLEMONT A student group at The Academy at Charlemont is holding a fundraiser to support an anti-racism training day next month.
“We’re under no illusions that tackling racism is a one-day, one-off sort of task,” said Nora Bates Zale, associate head of school. “This is one of many initiatives that I see the school taking on in the coming years. I think the hope here is that folks . take something away from the day that they hadn’t previously known, and understand racism in a new context.”