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Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Bài Giảng Pháp của Đức Đalai Lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3_ZMJPy5M
Người ít bạn bè, ít giao du xã hội, họ thường không đơn giản - Đức Đalai Lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2yPxjHREo
4 CON ĐƯỜNG CHỨNG NGỘ TÁNH KHÔNG - Đức Đalai Lama
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Bài giảng của Đức Dalai Lama về hiện trạng thế giới – Giải Thích Từ Khoa Học và Đạo Phật
A makeover for college: No gym, no meal plan and two years of work
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/01/nx-s1-5935431/college-reinvented-vermont-work-experience
A makeover for college: No gym, no meal plan and two years of work
September 1, 20265:00 AM ET . By Jon Marcus
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — The buildings that frame a grassy quad on a hill above Vermont's capital city are all red brick and white trim, dating from as far back as the 1870s.
This quintessential college campus from the 19th century is where a group of business, college and government leaders is working on the task of reinventing higher education for the 21st century.
An entirely new college is being planned here to change not only how higher education is delivered, but at what price. It also proposes to highlight ways the current business model no longer works, as evidenced by the 152 colleges and universities that have closed or merged since 2016, and the 442 others that a new projection says are at risk. So deeply entrenched are the problems confronting higher education that a growing chorus of innovators says the easiest way to fix them is to begin again from scratch.
The Greenway Institute — "green" as in new — will adopt instructional methods proven to work well, such as real-world training under the supervision of faculty mentors, while stripping away such things as layers of administrators and nonacademic amenities that make college in the United States so expensive.
"It's not fancy. It's a place where you do have a meaningful relationship with your faculty members. But you also take out your own trash," said Mark Somerville, the founding president.
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Mark Somerville, founding president of the Greenway Institute, stands in front of a whiteboard covered with tasks the new college needs to complete before it opens. "We need new models in higher ed," Somerville says.
Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report
Even more unexpected than the location of this startup is that it comes at a time when so many colleges are closing. In Vermont alone, seven private colleges have shut down in the last 10 years.
But Somerville, the former provost of Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, said this "moment of mass extinction" makes it clearer than ever that "we need new models in higher ed."
Enough of these experimental higher education institutions are in the planning stages that they have been organized by Duke University into a Future Universities Alliance. Greenway is a member.
Project Polymath, for instance — founded by Dan Futrell, former CEO of the Pat Tillman Foundation, which gives scholarships to military veterans — proposes to mentor bachelor's degree students beginning in 2028. Each student will take three majors and then be placed in an apprenticeship with an employer for two years.
There is "broad agreement that something has to change and also recognition that changing legacy institutions from within is agonizingly difficult," said Brian Rosenberg, former president of Macalester College in Minnesota. He is also author of the book "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It": Resistance to Change in Higher Education and a member of both the Greenway and Polymath advisory boards.
Greenway bought its campus in 2023 from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, which had mostly gone remote by then and would be acquired a year later by the California Institute of the Arts after enrollment declines and multimillion-dollar deficits.
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The Greenway Institute, which proposes to reinvent higher education for the 21st century, is being founded on a campus in Montpelier, Vt., that dates back to the 19th century.
Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report
Many renovations are complete, including the transformation of one building into shop rooms full of tools that students will use to work on real-world projects under faculty supervision.
Inside another building at the center of the campus — four stories of iconic, red-brick, Second Empire-style architecture, with big arched windows and a mansard roof — the Greenway team has arranged on a whiteboard color-coded sticky notes listing the many steps it takes to start a college.
The new school tentatively plans to open in the fall of 2027. It has raised $4.5 million toward a goal of $30 million by 2031, Somerville said — including a grant from the National Science Foundation, which it shares with an existing traditional partner institution, Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. It's also making money by renting out space it doesn't need.
Greenway's founders and advisers include tech executives, CEOs, a onetime Vermont secretary of education, a NASA engineer and current and former administrators from Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Tufts University and other schools. It will teach one subject: engineering.
The project tested its model in the spring semester of 2025 on four college sophomores from other schools, which gave them academic credit for coming to the Greenway campus and doing hands-on work with faculty supervisors in a prototype semester. Instead of sitting in conventional classes and lectures, the students designed wind turbines and solar-powered traffic signals.
"Basically, they learned electrical, mechanical and some controls by doing, versus somebody standing at the front and saying, 'All right, you know, this is Norton's equivalent theorem [of electronic circuits]' that you'll never use in your life," said Troy McBride, co-founder of a Vermont-based solar panel manufacturer and chair of Greenway's board of directors.
New research by scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Strada Education Foundation shows that work-based learning improves students' likelihood of getting jobs, advancing in their careers and earning more than classmates who studied in other ways. But fewer than half of students at public four-year universities get the experience of paid work-based learning, a separate Strada study shows. (Strada is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.)
"We're stuck in the 1950s," McBride said of traditional instruction. "We haven't responded to the internet, let alone AI. We're still memorizing things that don't need to be memorized, and we're not teaching skills and tools. We're teaching facts, which is the least useful thing in these times."
Jazz Gonzalez, who was part of Greenway's prototype semester, said conventional lectures in his previous years at Elizabethtown College left him wanting more.
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This shop room at the Greenway Institute was nicknamed "the sandbox" by students during a prototype semester in which they worked on real-world projects under the supervision of faculty mentors.
Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report
"I would always say, 'OK, but how do I dig deeper into this? How do I use this, and how do I actually apply it to what I'm going to be doing in the future?'" said Gonzalez, a Pennsylvania native who graduated this past spring.
When Greenway is operating fully, students are expected to live on campus for two years doing projects and then go on to real-world workplaces for an additional two years while continuing to get support from faculty.
That lowers the cost to the college of providing housing. It's also part of the educational strategy: Research from the Association of College and University Housing Officers shows that students who live on campus benefit from a communal setting for the first two years, with lower dropout rates than classmates who live off campus. But "by the time a student is in their junior year at most colleges, they're, like, 'Could I go study abroad now?'" Somerville said.
Greenway students will also shop for their own food and cook it for themselves in communal kitchens with utensils provided, plan their own extracurricular activities and, if they want to go to the gym, sign up for the nearby Planet Fitness or other off-campus options.
"It goes right to the point," said Emmanuel Attah, an engineering major at Elizabethtown who was also part of Greenway's prototype semester.
Not having climbing walls or football games "really didn't matter to us," Gonzalez said.
Those kinds of amenities are part of what's driving up the cost of college. In the 10 years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, the consulting firm McKinsey found, spending on noninstructional services grew four times faster than spending on teaching.
"You see tuition going up and up and up and up, and not necessarily for the reasons that a student would want them to go up, like a better educational experience," McBride said. "A lot of it is for amenities, extras and for space sitting empty."
Increasingly, said Somerville, "young people and their parents are looking at [college] and saying, 'Does this actually make sense?'"
There's another reason to make students responsible for cooking their own meals and scheduling their free time, said Annick Dewald, Greenway's first faculty member: so they learn how.
"We assume that they can't balance cooking for themselves and cleaning up for themselves, in addition to being college students, and I'm not totally sure why," said Dewald, who teaches engineering.
"Employers have told me the hardest thing about fresh-from-college undergrads is getting them to show up on time or sleep eight hours at night or to figure out how to feed themselves," she said. "That to me is a product of how we view college or what services we provide."
Hannah Root, Greenway's chief of staff, recounted taking the college's "test" students on their first food-shopping excursion, which she called one of the most challenging moments of the prototype semester. There were "just so many real decisions that they were having to make that it was clear they hadn't really experienced before," such as whether to buy organic produce.
Without the frills, Greenway expects to charge tuition of $25,000 or less per year, offset by what students would be paid during their third and fourth years for their in-person work — generally called "co-op" jobs by other universities and colleges that offer them. The average full-time co-op pays more than $25 an hour for juniors and seniors, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. That comes to more than $50,000 a year.
The average published total cost of attendance at private, nonprofit four-year universities is $65,470, the College Board reports.
Greenway has to wait until it formally opens to apply for accreditation, a process that then takes at least four years. That's one of the many examples of red tape that makes innovation challenging, its founders say. It also means students won't be eligible for federal grants or loans for a while. Greenway's founders said they expect the money they raise will offset that, and that accreditation would be retroactively applied to graduates' degrees.
The plan is to grow to 500 students in Montpelier, half of them on campus at any given time, and to add other locations nationwide, Somerville said. For now, he said, Greenway needs about 370 students by 2031 to break even.
Greenway may not be for everyone, said Vermont state Rep. Rebecca Holcombe, a former Vermont secretary of education and onetime candidate for governor, and another founder.
It's "for kids who really know what they want to do," she said.
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Vermont state Rep. Rebecca Holcombe, a former Vermont secretary of education and onetime candidate for governor, is a co-founder of the Greenway Institute. "We're ready to start saying, 'OK, if not this, then what?'" she says.
Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report
While the particularly large number of closing colleges in Vermont may seem a bad omen for an effort to open a new one, Holcombe said experiencing the problem has made the state that much more focused on it.
"We're ready to start saying, 'OK, if not this, then what?'"
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Additional reporting by Liam Elder-Connors.
Edited by Nirvi Shah and Steve Drummond
Visual design and development by LA Johnson
Đức Phật, Bậc Tòan Giác, Giác Ngộ Cái Gì?
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Những Điều Người Cao Niên Cần Để Ý
1/ Tập buông bỏ các thói quen không có lợi và không cần thiết; các vật dụng, đồ đạc,"vật kỷ niệm," ngay cả một số tài sản; các quan hệ, giao tiếp không cần thiết và đôi khi bất lợi hay thậm chí nguy hại.
2/ Quý trọng thì giờ và sống với giây phút hiện tại, những người thân thuộc, thật gần gũi, tiệp xúc ngay hiện tại. Không nên sống với dĩ vãng, quá khứ xa xôi hay tương lai viễn vông, mù mịt.
3/ Tập rèn luyện tâm; tập tha thứ, nhẫn nhục và xả ly/buông
4/ Tập quán chiếu mỗi ngày về tính không/duyên khởi, tính vô thường và luật nhân quả của vạn pháp
Friday, August 28, 2026
Online or Offline - That Is the Question
How Akira Attacks NetworksInitial Access:
Hackers target remote connections. They exploit unpatched VPN (virtual private network) appliances or use stolen login credentials.Lateral Movement: Once inside, they disable security tools and move across the network. Data Theft: They steal sensitive files before encrypting local systems.Virtual Machine Target: They attack hypervisors like VMware ESXi to lock down entire virtual machine environments at once.Extortion: They demand large cryptocurrency payments. If the victim refuses to pay, Akira publishes the stolen data on a dark web leak site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(ransomware)
Akira is ransomware which emerged in March 2023.[1] It targeted over 250 entities including: US energy firm BHI Energy,[2] Nissan Australia,[3][4] the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry,[5][6][7][8] and Stanford University.[9][10] The group has also claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack on the Toronto Zoo, though the zoo has not linked the incident to any particular threat actor.[11] Akira is offered as ransomware-as-a-service.[12]
Akira is estimated to have earned up to $42 million from its inception in March 2023, until April 2024.[13]
Methods
Akira primarily targets Cisco VPN products as an attack vector to breach networks, especially those without multi-factor authentication enabled.[14][15] The group uses publicly available or natively installed tools and techniques for lateral movement. There are both Windows and Linux variants of Akira ransomware.
Akira uses double-extortion ransomware techniques, in which data is exfiltrated from the environment before it is encrypted with threats to publish this data if a ransom is not paid.[16]
A report by Halcyon released in April 2026 claimed the group could move rapidly and encrypt a victim organization's data within an hour after initial compromise, and that the group takes steps to ensure it can deliver recovered data to victims after ransom payments are made.[17]
Akira v2
Akira v2 is written in Rust and is designed to locate files based on specific parameters, tailoring encryption to more specific file types.[18] These file types are often associated with database project files, optical media, Exchange mailbox databases, virtual hard disks, and other file types associated with virtualization and virtual machines.
Key Generation
Akira used CryptGenRandom to generate a symmetric key, which itself was then encrypted by the combination of a ChaCha20 stream cipher and an RSA-4096 public key, which was appended to the end of encrypted files.[1] The threat actors possessed the private key, preventing decryption without paying a ransom.
Akira ransomware has both a Windows and Linux version, though the Windows version uses the Windows CryptoAPI library while the Linux variant uses the Crypto++ library to encrypt devices when the ransomware is deployed.
Decryptor
In June of 2023, Avast released a decryptor for the Akira ransomware, likely exploiting the partial file encryption approach used at the time to crack the encryption without obtaining any keys.[19] The decryptor does not work natively on Linux systems, and if needed it is recommended to use a WINE layer to run the decryptor on a Linux machine.
References
"#StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware | CISA". www.cisa.gov. April 18, 2024.
"BHI-notice". www.documentcloud.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
Paganini, Pierluigi (December 22, 2023). "Akira ransomware gang claims the theft of sensitive data from Nissan Australia". Security Affairs.
"Nissan Australia cyberattack claimed by Akira ransomware gang". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
Paganini, Pierluigi (January 24, 2024). "Akira ransomware attack on Tietoevry disrupted the services of many Swedish organizations". Security Affairs.
"Akira ransomware hits cloud service Tietoevry; numerous Swedish customers affected". therecord.media.
Tietoevry.com. "Restoration work progressing at Tietoevry". www.tietoevry.com. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
Tietoevry.com. "UPDATE: Ransomware attack in Swedish data center". www.tietoevry.com. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
Staff, S. C. (January 22, 2024). "Akira ransomware group's changing tactics: What you need to know". SC Media.
"Stanford says data from 27,000 people leaked in September ran
"Toronto Zoo shares update on last year's ransomware attack". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
"Akira ransomware compromised at least 63 victims since March, report says". therecord.media.
Paganini, Pierluigi (April 21, 2024). "Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims". Security Affairs.
Sead Fadilpašić (October 14, 2024). "Veeam vulnerability exploited to deploy malware via compromised VPN credentials". TechRadar.
"#StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware | CISA". www.cisa.gov. 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
"Akira, GOLD SAHARA, PUNK SPIDER, Group G1024 | MITRE ATT&CK®". attack.mitre.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
djohnson (2026-04-02). "Akira ransomware group can achieve initial access to data encryption in less than an hour". CyberScoop. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
Brown, Jade. "Akira Ransomware: A Shifting Force in the RaaS Domain". Bitdefender Blog. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
Team, Threat Research (2023-06-29). "Decrypted: Akira Ransomware". Avast Threat Labs. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
See also
Conti (ransomware)
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/24/3349950/0/en/paylogix-llc-data-breach-ademi-llp-investigates-claims-for-damages.html
Paylogix, LLC Data Breach: Ademi LLP Investigates Claims for Damages
https://therecord.media/norway-cyberattack-ddos-government
Daryna Antoniuk
August 25th, 2026
Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline
A handful of Norwegian government services have been disrupted for more than a day after a large-scale cyberattack targeted the infrastructure used to operate them, authorities said.
The Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, known as Digdir, said the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack began Monday and targeted the infrastructure of its IT partner, Vivicta. Such attacks flood servers with traffic in an attempt to make them unavailable to legitimate users.
Digdir said it was working with Vivicta to stabilize the affected systems, with some services gradually coming back online. The attack has continued for around 30 hours at varying levels of intensity and, as of Tuesday morning, was still affecting some services, according to Digdir's status page.
The incident disrupted 10 digital services used for verifying people's identities, logging into public services, exchanging data and documents between government agencies and businesses, accessing public records, and managing employee access.
Among the affected systems was ID-porten, a digital identification service that acts as a gateway to thousands of Norwegian government services. It allows people to verify their identity using services such as BankID and MinID and has more than 4.5 million users.
The disruption also affected parts of Norway's health infrastructure because several health services rely on ID-porten for authentication. Authorities warned of possible problems accessing online pharmacies and Norway's electronic prescription system.
It is the third DDoS incident to affect Digdir's services since June, according to Norwegian media.
"What is special about this latest attack, which has now been ongoing for a day, is that it is two to three times larger than what we experienced last time," Digdir press officer Are Kvistad told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack or whether the recent incidents were connected or part of a broader campaign targeting Norway.
https://therecord.media/university-of-texas-forced-to-take-systems-offline-cyberattack-san-antonio
Jonathan Greig
August 18th, 2026
University of Texas forced to take systems offline in San Antonio after cyberattack
One of the largest universities in Texas is facing a wide range of disruptions following a cyberattack announced on Monday morning.
The University of Texas at San Antonio, which serves 40,000 students across six campuses, said its IT team identified threat activity on its academic campus over the weekend and took some systems, including phones, offline in response.
Classes for many students begin on Wednesday, and the disruptions threaten to snarl systems people use to sign up for courses and submit payments for services.
Michael Schnabel, the organization’s chief technology officer, said in a statement that the threat activity was detected at the edge of the university’s network and was contained before it reached “core systems and University Technology Solutions.” The university did not respond to questions about what was impacted.
“At this time, our ongoing investigation has found no evidence that university data was accessed or exfiltrated as a result of this activity,” Schnabel said. “With classes beginning this Wednesday, we recognize how important, reliable access to university systems and services is for our students, faculty and staff. Our teams are working with great care to ensure that our technology environment is both available and secure as we begin the new academic year.”
In light of the outages, the school said the deadline for student payments was extended to Friday and several other changes were made to the wait lists for courses.
Late on Monday, the university said it planned for all students and teachers to reset their passwords but in a Tuesday update, they warned that the password reset effort was experiencing delays.
No hacking group has taken credit for the attack.
Cybercriminals have repeatedly targeted universities at the beginning and end of school years in an effort to force organizations to pay exorbitant ransoms. In May, universities across the U.S. were forced to delay final exams following a damaging cyberattack on a critical education software provider.
Other large state universities like the University of Oklahoma, Stanford and the University of Michigan faced ransomware attacks following holiday breaks. The University of Pennsylvania had its email system disrupted in October during a cybersecurity incident while Columbia and Harvard Universities both faced attack last year.
https://therecord.media/social-engineering-hackers-explicit-photos-fbi-alert
Jonathan Greig
August 12th, 2026
FBI: Hackers using social engineering to breach accounts and steal explicit content
Hackers are breaking into the social media accounts of both adults and children to steal explicit content and sell it on criminal marketplaces, according to a new FBI alert released this week.
In a notice on Monday, the bureau said threat actors are “using a variety of social engineering and cyber intrusion tactics to target specific individuals of interest — who may or may not be known to the actor — or general targets of opportunity.”
The FBI added that the hackers are also posting personal information alongside the explicit content.
Some cybercriminals break into accounts by repeatedly trying different passwords or PINs found on data leak sites and other sources. When victims are people they know, the hackers use different variations of their birthday or name.
In other cases seen by FBI agents, hackers have contacted victims pretending to be social media company representatives claiming their accounts have been breached. They bombard victims with texts requesting password resets or with codes that allow the threat actors to reset the victim’s password themselves.
The notice adds that some incidents involved cloned social media sites made to look like legitimate platforms. When login information is entered on the fake sites, it is sent to the cybercriminals.
The FBI noted that after the stolen content is posted or sold, victims often “face re-victimization through harassment, sextortion, stalking or other targeted attacks, such as advertising stolen content on a victim's own social media page.”
The notice comes months after the Justice Department charged several people for conducting similar attacks.
A 27-year-old Illinois man pleaded guilty in February after the DOJ accused him of being behind a campaign of hacks involving the Snapchat accounts of about 600 women.
Last year, the DOJ indicted a former University of Michigan assistant football coach for hacking into the student athlete databases of more than 100 colleges and universities and accessing the medical information of about 150,000 people — using the data to break into the social media accounts of female student athletes
Digdir said the attackers had not gained access to sensitive information stored in the affected systems.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Phật Giáo Tây Tạng - Lịch Sử, Nguồn Gốc và Hai Thời Kỳ Phát Triển -Gia Tài Gốc Từ 17 Vị Đại Sư Đại Học Nalanda
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