Aaron Rodgers discusses Packers wide receivers with NFL Network - Packers Wire

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers sat down with Stacey Dales and Steve Mariucci of NFL Network after Saturday’s practice, and the obvious question came up: What does the four-time NFL MVP think of the current group of wide receivers in Green Bay?

“I like the guys we’ve got,” Rodgers said. “There’s gonna be the same amount of balls and yards and touchdowns to go around, so now it’s just a matter of who is going to be in those situations to make those plays.

Departed wide receivers Davante Adams, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Equanimeous St. Brown combined for 241 targets, 158 catches, 2,081 yards and 14 touchdowns last season.

Rodgers is confident in the current receiver group making the most of the opportunities available in the passing game.

He specifically talked about six of the wide receivers in his answer to Dales and Mariucci:

On Christian Watson: “Not having Christian out here has probably been tough for him, but I expect him back in a couple of weeks.”

On Romeo Doubs: “Romeo Doubs has had a really nice start to camp. Getting a lot of attention based on some of the plays he’s made. Like the approach, very understated kid, very humble kid…It’s surprising how many teams passed on him. Whatever the reason was, we all feel really good about Romeo and the start he’s gotten off to.”

On Allen Lazard: “Obviously, Allen Lazard is going to step into the No. 1 role and I think it’s going to be a very seamless transition for him. As a primary blocker and kind of a niche guy for us, to get an opportunity to get more throws, be the No. 1  in the progression more often.”

On Randall Cobb: “When Randall Cobb stays healthy, I think he’s still an excellent slot receiver.”

On Sammy Watkins: “Sammy Watkins just came back to us yesterday, but he has a lot of experience, he’s on a short deal, he’s got a lot to prove. I think those guys are a little more dangerous because there’s so much more to play for for those guys. Allen Lazard, on a one-year deal as well.”

On Juwann Winfree: “There’s a lot of opportunity behind them. Juwann Winfree has stepped up as he does almost every single training camp, and he’s off to a really nice start.”

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Helium says its crypto mesh network is used by Lime and Salesforce — it isn't - The Verge

On Friday, Mashable reported that Helium, a crypto project praised by The New York Times earlier this year and whose parent company is backed by investment firms like Andreessen Horowitz, had been misleading people about the companies it works with. Helium advertises on its homepage that Lime, the mobility company behind those electric scooters and bikes, uses its crypto-powered mesh wireless network. The company, however, told Mashable that it hasn’t had a relationship with the company since 2019, and that it had only ever initial testing with Helium’s tech.

Now, Salesforce, whose logo appeared on Helium’s website right next to Lime’s, says that it also doesn’t use the technology. “Helium is not a Salesforce partner,” Salesforce spokesperson Ashley Eliasoph told The Verge in an email. When I followed up to ask about the graphic below, which appeared on Helium’s website, Eliasoph said that “it is not accurate.”

Sometime between 4:35 PM ET and 5:30 PM ET, Lime and Salesforce’s logos were removed from Helium’s home page. The Verge sent an email to Helium asking about its relationship with Salesforce at 4:48PM ET, which the company hasn’t responded to at the time of this writing.

Unlike many crypto projects, it’s actually relatively easy to understand Helium’s core pitch (though there are absolutely ways to complicate it if you want). The idea is that you put a Helium hotspot — which could cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars — in your house, and the network’s users connect to it when they’re close by and need some data. The more data that goes through your hotspot, the more HNT (Helium’s cryptocurrency) you’d earn.

In short, it’s a sort of decentralized mesh network, where the individuals running the nodes are able to profit from providing their data. (It is worth noting, though, that using your home internet like this violates the terms of service agreements for many internet service providers.) The economics supposedly works because companies or individuals pay to use Helium’s network instead of, say, cellular data.

Members of the r/helium subreddit have been increasingly vocal about seeing poor Helium returns.

On average, they spent $400-800 to buy a hotspot. They were expecting $100/month, enough to recoup their costs and enjoy passive income.

Then their earnings dropped to only $20/mo. pic.twitter.com/0jx2zLUaiA

— Liron Shapira (@liron) July 26, 2022

Now, though, we have to ask: who wants to pay for it? Not many people, it seems. As one Twitter thread points out, a report from The Generalist says that only around $6,500 worth of data credits (or DCs) were spent to access Helium’s network last month. That’s a sharp contrast to the millions of dollars people have spent on equipment to set up hotspots for the network in hopes of profiting, and it’d be shockingly low if Lime were actually connecting its scooters to the network, or if Salesforce customers were using it to monitor warehouses, like Helium pitched in 2017.

The New York Times article, which called Helium an example of “how crypto can be quite useful in solving certain types of problems,” listed Lime as well as Victor, a rodent and reptile trap company, as Helium users. Lime’s obviously now denied that’s the case (and says it’s sending a cease and desist to Helium), and Victor didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s questions about whether it uses the network. However, the site that Helium touted as the place to buy Helium-enabled Victor mousetraps in its announcement of the partnership no longer seems to sell them. There also don’t appear to be any mentions of Helium in Victor’s documentation.

Helium’s documentation, however, does hint at Victor’s products, saying, “a Helium Network user requires 50,000 DCs per month to send data for their fleet of Helium-connected mouse traps. (Yes, these actually exist, and they are glorious.)”

We also reached out to Dish, which announced last year that it would use Helium’s 5G network. That announcement is also posted on Helium’s homepage, right near the top under “latest news.”

I’d like to wrap this up with a parting thought. The author of the Times story says Helium couldn’t really work without crypto technology attached, citing the fact that the company launched without any sort of crypto integration, and only came up with the idea when it was on the brink of collapse. But for years, underserved communities have had to build their own local networks after being ignored by the government and communications companies. That runs contrary to what this chipper Helium ad implies; that people would only be willing to do something for their community if they’re getting paid for it. Then again, it’s not necessarily surprising that Helium misrepresented a vital piece of the puzzle.

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You wouldn't let hackers download permission to get root access on your organization's internal network -- but if you're not managing your SSH keys properly, your systems could be at risk of just such an attack.

Network and system administrators and information security professionals routinely use SSH to gain access to resources everywhere in the enterprise or other large networks. In practice, however, many SSH users skimp on key management and leave their networks wide open to attacks exploiting SSH keys that have root permissions enabled and that never expire.

This is a problem because SSH is so widely used for implementing identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM). SSH enables secure remote access for authorized users, using public key authentication and asymmetric encryption.

Why is SSH key management important?

Proper SSH key management can mean the difference between safely using one of the best network security tools and opening an organization's entire network to exploitation. While individual users are able to create SSH keys using the ssh-keygen utility, this ad hoc approach is counter to modern cybersecurity DevOps principles that emphasize oversight and control.

SSH makes it possible to bypass password protection on critical servers when a user logs in from a host that has authenticated itself by sharing a public key and a signature using the associated private key. SSH keys can quickly multiply -- without controls -- and they don't expire. In addition, there's no default central authority that can keep track of who is signing in to sensitive systems. This means organizations often find themselves with a large number of SSH keys -- in some cases, as many as millions of SSH key pairs -- to manage.

SSH keys present a problem for network and security professionals who manage access to their organizations. SSH keys give users access to network resources in the same way user IDs and passwords are used.

This means SSH key management is as critical to enterprise security as any other systems for protecting user credentials. Other important reasons for getting a grasp on SSH key management in large organizations include the following:

• Widespread use of SSH, especially by network and security professionals who use it as an ad hoc tool for connecting to remote resources, means many undocumented SSH keys may be distributed on many different network hosts. Other security risks related to unmanaged SSH keys include stolen keys used by hackers and the use of SSH keys with improper permissions levels.
• Regulatory compliance rules may require SSH key management. SSH keys are access credentials, which means the same type of compliance required for any other access credentials apply to SSH. These include regulations and standards related to HIPAA, PCI DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Too many unexpired SSH keys present attackers with opportunities to exploit enterprise resources. SSH Communications Security reported research results that showed a high degree of key sprawl with as many as 90% of SSH keys in its customers' systems that were not being used.
• Granting permissions improperly is also an issue. SSH Communications Security found 10% of SSH keys were granted root access on its systems, which itself raises the stakes for organizations using SSH authentication. A compromise of a single key -- if that key is permissioned improperly -- could enable attackers to bypass firewalls, install malware or otherwise subvert more than one remote server.

Research shows SSH keys created for use in large organizations can quickly rise to such high numbers, with as many as one in 10 of those keys representing authenticated identities with root access. While SSH may be considered a method for strongly authenticating remote users, when SSH keys get out of hand, it may also be considered a source of serious vulnerabilities.

What is SSH key management?

SSH key management is the process by which an organization can use automation to identify all cryptographic keys associated with the SSH application, determine levels of permissions assigned to those keys and administer the use of those keys for SSH access.

SSH key management systems address the following issues:

• provisioning of public keys
• inventorying SSH public keys
• monitoring use of SSH public keys
• terminating SSH public keys that should be revoked

SSH key management systems must be implemented along with, and in line with, a complete set of key management policies and procedures that can help reduce the risks associated with using SSH, especially on critical systems that hold sensitive information or that perform mission-critical functions.

SSH key management systems also may be used to administer the creation of new SSH keys.

Some of the functions SSH key management systems can help implement are the following:

• key management policies to maintain control over access to restricted resources;
• SSH key rotation, a strategy for removing or replacing an SSH key that is no longer required -- key rotation calls for removing or replacing unneeded keys from the authorized_keys file on an SSH server; and
• SSH key lifecycle to put key management policies in place to control processes for the following:
  • requesting new SSH keys;
  • approving requests;
  • provisioning requests;
  • logging use of approved keys;
  • regular reviews of key-based access;
  • reauthorization of SSH keys in use; and
  • termination of SSH keys when their use is no longer valid.

When properly implemented, an SSH key management system gives organizations a way to standardize control over the creation and use of SSH keys. This also enables the organization to maintain control over who may access internal resources and what permission levels they have.

What is at stake with SSH key management?

Although the SSH protocol itself is considered secure, many vulnerabilities are still related to using SSH for privileged access to remote systems. Executives should consider addressing these vulnerabilities as part of the process of planning an SSH key access management system.

SSH key management is a key feature for deploying SSH in any large organization.

Some types of vulnerabilities relating to SSH key management are the following:

• Vulnerabilities in the SSH implementations being used. This includes issues related to the software implementing the SSH protocol, as well as issues with system configurations and protocol weaknesses. For example, legacy servers may still support connections using the original version of SSH, SSH1, also called SSH v1 or SSH-1. Because SSH1 has known security vulnerabilities, most experts recommend using version SSH2
• Access control issues. These refer to cases where too-generous user privileges are configured in accounts used by individuals or by processes to access and control resources they should not be permitted to access or control. In other words, one should configure user accounts to limit their permission levels to run commands as the root user. This type of configuration issue must be addressed at multiple levels to take advantage of the organization's existing OS directory systems, as well as other mechanisms, such as Kerberos, for authentication of user identities.
• Compromised keys. Keys that have been stolen, leaked or otherwise revealed are a big risk -- likewise for old keys that have not been terminated, which could easily be in the next hack or leak. The vulnerability is compounded when the compromised key is a backdoor key, a key designated to bypass the organization's PAM system. While such keys may make some processes easier for authorized users -- such as logging in to any organizational network resource without passwords -- when compromised, these keys give attackers full access to the organization's network.

SSH has a well-deserved reputation as the gold standard for securing network connections. But, while the SSH protocol itself is recognized as secure, the way the protocol is implemented and used may still leave it vulnerable to various attacks. SSH key management is one way to prevent many such attacks.

Tips for implementing an SSH key management system

Identifying the requirements is the first step to implementing an SSH key management, according to the NIST report, "Security of Interactive and Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH)." Some of the recommended best practices for setting up and using SSH key management in that document are the following:

• Implement SSH securely. This means being judicious in where SSH server processes are enabled, as well as keeping all SSH software updated and patched, configuring systems securely and limiting permissions using the principle of least privilege.
• Harden SSH software. This includes disabling SSH1 access, disabling other authentication methods, limiting groups and accounts authorized to use SSH authentication, and disabling SSH port forwarding.
• Maintain secure policies for SSH identities and authorized keys. This includes setting standards for creating keys. For example, some of the policies that should be addressed are the following:
  • minimum key lengths and permitted algorithms;
  • key lifetimes and key expiration processes;
  • identity key access control;
  • using passphrases for interactive users;
  • setting IAM policies related to copying identity keys -- they should not be allowed, but if allowed, guidelines should limit risk; and
  • setting limits on who is allowed to install keys.
• Set up a continuous monitoring and audit process. The only way to ensure policies are implemented correctly and system access is secure is to monitor and audit the systems that are implementing those policies.
• Identify all SSH servers, SSH keys and SSH trust relationships. Enumerating all the SSH entities -- SSH servers, SSH keys and the trust relationships those keys represent -- is just the first step. Once identified, these entities need to be reviewed to make sure they comply with organizational requirements and policies. If they don't, they should be replaced as required.

Balancing the potentially high number of unsanctioned keys with the ongoing need to use SSH for legitimate purposes, it makes sense to automate as many processes as possible. Organizations may already have some of the tools necessary. For example, identifying and enumerating SSH entities in a network can often be done using existing vulnerability scanning systems to identify SSH servers.

Other processes that should be automated -- because they are done so often -- include the provisioning and installation of new SSH keys independently of system administrators and the continuous monitoring of SSH exchanges to make sure all systems are working properly.

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Magnolia Network Renews ‘Art in Bloom,’ ‘Restored’ and Orders 3 New Series for Fall Slate (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network has renewed “Art in Bloom with Helen Dealtry” and “Restored,” and it has ordered three new cooking and renovation series while also revealing its August slate of premiere dates.

Premiering this fall are new shows “Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia” (working title), “La Pitchoune: Cooking in France” and “Weekend Makeover” with DIY expert Jenni Yolo. “Art in Bloom” has been picked up for a third season and “Restored” for a seventh season, both set to premiere in the coming months.

“Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia” centers on the Montana-based chef as he invites viewers into his kitchen, where he prepares meals drawn from his Latin and Jewish heritage, using fresh, locally-sourced ingredients. Magnolia has orderes six half-hour episodes of the series from Linguine Prods.

In this “Weekend Makeover,” DIY expert Jenni Yolo refreshes a space in the home of a family member, client or friend over the course of a weekend. The nine-episode series hails from RIVR Media.

“La Pitchoune: Cooking in France” is a Citizen-produced, seven-episode docuseries that follows four friends running a cooking school in Julia Child’s former home. Students from all over travel to learn French cooking techniques in the kitchen where Julia cooked and wrote some of her most famous recipes.

Next month, Magnolia Network will premiere new series “Recipe Lost and Found,” “The Art of Vintage,” “Capturing Home,” “Rental Redo,” “Diary of an Old Home” and “Baked in Tradition,” as well as new seasons of “In with the Old” and “Bargain Mansions,” and a new Magnolia Workshop series “Cook Like a Chef: Recipes for the Home Cook with Chef Katie Button.”

See below for premiere dates and series descriptions for programs coming to Magnolia Network’s linear and streaming platforms in August.

Recipe Lost and Found – NEW SERIES – Classically trained chef and food anthropologist Casey Corn is on a journey to help people rediscover their lost family recipes, diving into each family’s history and culture to reveal the magic behind the dish. New episodes every Friday beginning August 5th (streaming only)

The Art of Vintage – NEW SERIES – Vintage dealer and designer Katie Saro creates one-of-a-kind spaces for her clients and shares her unique styling and design tips while transforming her own home room by room. New episodes every Saturday at 12 p.m. EST beginning August 6th (streaming + cable)

Capturing Home – NEW SERIES – Designers Amy Neunsinger and Kate Martindale take inspiration from homeowners’ personal stories to create custom, one-of-a-kind spaces for their families to gather. New episodes every Saturday at 1 p.m. EST beginning August 6th (streaming + cable)

In With the Old – NEW SEASON – Designers, builders and old-home enthusiasts in small towns and big cities across America reimagine and transform abandoned structures by preserving their historical integrity while giving them new purpose. Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST beginning August 24th (streaming + cable)

Bargain Mansions – NEW SEASON – For home restoration expert Tamara Day, the bigger the home, the bigger the challenge. The Kansas City, Missouri, native is passionate about restoring neglected large homes and bringing them back to life for new families to love. Thursday at 9 p.m. EST beginning August 25th (cable only)

Rental Redo – NEW SERIES – Designer Keyanna Bowen has a passion for renovating rental properties, showing you don’t have to spend a lot of money to make a big impact. She reveals cost-saving tips while updating rentals to help tenants feel more at home. New episodes every Friday beginning August 26th (streaming only)

Diary of an Old Home – NEW SERIES – Homeowners offer an intimate look at the original features and modern renovations that make their old homes unique. They also share their passion for understanding and preserving their properties’ distinct histories. New episodes every Friday beginning August 26th (streaming only)

Baked in Tradition (f.k.a. Against the Grain) – NEW SERIES – Baker Bryan Ford travels to baking establishments all over New York City, spotlighting different cultures’ baking traditions. He tastes and discusses baked goods that may not get the mainstream attention they deserve and points out how certain treats are similar even though they originate from different countries. New episodes every Sunday beginning August 28th (streaming + cable)

Cook Like a Chef: Recipes for the Home Cook – NEW MAGNOLIA WORKSHOP COURSE – Chef Katie Button invites you into her kitchen to learn fundamental cooking techniques and tips for preparing delicious recipes you can return to for years to come. Full workshop course to debut on Friday, August 19th only on the Magnolia app

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MSG Network's 'Giants Training Camp Report' returns in 2022 - Giants Wire

MSG Network has announced the return of Giants Training Camp Report, Presented by Citizens for 2022.

The New York Giants centric show will be hosted by Bob Papa, Paul Dottino and Madelyn Burke. It will also feature rotating analysis from Giants greats such as Carl Banks, Howard Cross, Victor Cruz, Jeff Feagles, Mathias Kiwanuka, Shaun O’Hara and Amani Toomer.

MSG Networks, the television home of the New York Giants, will air new training camp episodes generally at 7:00pm ET after scheduled training camp sessions for the team throughout the next few weeks. Most episodes will be broadcast from the Giants’ practice facility – Quest Diagnostics Training Center – in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Encore presentations will often be telecast later in the evening and the following day as well to ensure fans don’t miss any of the gridiron action.

In addition to their training camp coverage, MSG will also provide a regular season programming lineup that includes Giants Postgame Live, Giants Chronicles presented by Hackensack Meridian Health, Giants Access Blue presented by Ford and The Brian Daboll Show presented by Stop & Shop.

Fans can watch these shows via their cable provider or through MSG GO, “the network’s live streaming and video on demand platform.”

To find specific times and cable channel listings, fans can visit the MSG Network schedule website.

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Virgin Media O2 owners to build wholesale UK fibre network - Reuters

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• New JV will invest 4.5 bln pounds
• Network could reach 7 mln premises
• Rival BT's shares fall as much as 4.4%

LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - The owners of Britain's Virgin Media O2 have joined forces with French investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners to plough around 4.5 billion pounds ($5.5 billion) into a new fibre broadband joint venture, increasing direct competition with BT (BT.L).

Virgin's owners Liberty Global (LBTYA.O) and Spain's Telefonica (TEF.MC), plus InfraVia, said the network would cover around 7 million premises across the UK, in areas not already covered by the existing Virgin Media network, and offer wholesale access to other broadband providers.

BT has long provided the main wholesale network in Britain, giving access to the likes of TalkTalk and Sky. BT is ploughing billions of pounds into its network, extending its fibre offering to 25 million premises by end-2026.

Virgin Media O2 CEO Lutz Schuler said the new JV network combined with an upgraded Virgin Media network would potentially offer gold-standard fibre connections to 23 million premises by 2028.

"We will have two nationwide fibre networks," Schuler said in an interview. "I think that's fantastic for the UK."

Britain, which has lagged most other European countries in the super high-speed network race, is aiming for nationwide full-fibre broadband coverage by 2033 in an attempt to boost economic growth.

It hopes 15 million premises will have full-fibre broadband by 2025.

Friday's investment announcement knocked BT's shares to a session low. By 1123 GMT, the stock was down 1.4%, lagging the main index, after falling as much as 4.4% earlier.

Virgin Media's owners said the new network would be available to 5 million homes that are not served by the current Virgin Media O2 network by 2026, with an opportunity to expand to an additional 2 million homes.

The deal will include 3.3 billion pounds of fully underwritten financing commitments and up to 1.4 billion pounds in equity commitments, the groups said.

Schuler said the company was in discussions with broadband providers such as Sky, Vodafone (VOD.L) and TalkTalk about wholesale access, which would be offered across the new network and Virgin Media's existing footprint.

He said wholesale deals were "like a marriage", lasting a decade or more, so the company wanted to get them right, saying it will take the time needed instead of rushing into them.

He declined to comment on reports that Virgin Media O2 was in talks about acquiring TalkTalk. read more

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Hamilton Named Georgia Tech Sports Network Football Analyst - Georgia Tech

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech legend and 680 The Fan personality Joe Hamilton has been named color analyst for football broadcasts on the Georgia Tech Sports Network, beginning this season. Georgia Tech head coach Geoff Collins made the announcement live during “The Locker Room,” the morning drive time show that Hamilton co-hosts daily on 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan.

We had to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming on ⁦@680TheFan⁩ today for an important announcement from @CoachCollins and the Georgia Tech Sports Network.

Looking forward to getting the booth booming Sept. 5. Welcome Joe! 🏈 ⁦@GTAthletics⁩ pic.twitter.com/CxBvf00gbh

— Andy Demetra (@AndyDemetra) July 28, 2022

Perhaps the most decorated football student-athlete in Georgia Tech history, Hamilton was a four-year starter at quarterback for the Yellow Jackets from 1996-99. As a senior in 1999, he was a consensus first-team All-American, won the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback and finished as runner-up for the Heisman Trophy – the highest that a Yellow Jacket has ever finished in voting for college football’s most prestigious award. He finished his career as the Atlantic Coast Conference’s all-time leader in total offense (10,640 yards), touchdown passes (65) and total touchdowns (83) and was selected as one of 50 members of the ACC’s 50^th anniversary team in 2002. In 2014, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

“First, I am happy for Georgia Tech fans everywhere, because I have never met a Tech fan that doesn’t love Joe Hamilton,” Georgia Tech director of broadcasting and play-by-play announcer Andy Demetra said. “But, the reason that Joe is going to be the next color analyst for the Georgia Tech Sports Network is because he has those QB’s eyes. And it became apparent throughout our interview process that he can break down with clarity and sharpness why a play was successful, why it wasn’t, and that’s the essence of what a color commentator does. You package that with all the charisma and magnetism that Joe has and it was very clear to us that he is the guy that we wanted to be with us in the booth.”

L to R: Georgia Tech Sports Network play-by-play announcer Andy Demetra, color analyst Joe Hamilton, Tech football head coach Geoff Collins and sideline reporter Wiley Ballard.

Hamilton has been an on-air personality at Atlanta’s 680 The Fan since 2018, first on the mid-morning “Hometeam and Hamilton” show on 680’s sister station, SportsXtra 106.3 FM, before moving to the coveted morning drive time role on “The Locker Room” in 2021.

“It’s very seldom that you get a chance to do something like this, which is why I’m so happy,” Hamilton said. “It’s my alma mater. I bleed Gold and White, there’s no doubt about it. I’m super excited and I cannot wait for toe meets leather.”

The Georgia Tech Sports Network kicks off the 2022 campaign on Monday, Sept. 5 when the Yellow Jackets host Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. and Hamilton, Demetra, sideline reporter Wiley Ballard and hosts Brandon Joseph and Chris Mooneyham will hit the airwaves the flagship station of the Georgia Tech Sports Network, 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan, and network affiliates across the state of Georgia beginning at 6 p.m.

2022 GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETS

With less than 50 days to go before Georgia Tech football’s highly anticipated season opener versus Clemson at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, 2022 season tickets are on sale now. The Yellow Jackets’ attractive 2022 home slate includes the Jackets’ Sept. 5 opener versus Clemson in the second edition of Tech’s “Mayhem at Mercedes-Benz Stadium” series, as well as showdowns with Ole Miss (Sept. 17), Virginia (Oct. 20) and Miami (Nov. 12) at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Season tickets, which include all six games on the Jackets’ home schedule and exclusive perks such as exclusive concessions and merchandise discounts at Bobby Dodd Stadium, priority access to parking and tickets for away games and discounts on admission to the College Football Hall of Fame and Illuminarium Atlanta, begin at just $299.

Three-game mini-season packs are also available, giving fans the opportunity to choose tickets for three of the Yellow Jackets’ six home games in 2022, beginning at just $175.

To become a Georgia Tech football season ticket member, click HERE to purchase tickets online or click HERE to be contacted by a member of the Georgia Tech athletics tickets sales team. For more information, call the Georgia Tech athletics ticket office at 888-TECH-TIX or visit ramblinwreck.com/footballtickets.

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One America News Network Is About to See Its Distribution Further Dwindle - Vanity Fair

With AT&T’s DirecTV dropping OAN last spring, and Verizon poised to do the same this week, the right-wing channel will have been removed from roughly 20 million homes this year. “Enjoy your freedoms while you still got ’em,” one host told critics Tuesday.

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Less than a month after calling liberals “sick demons” who “love killing babies,” One America News host Alison Steinberg attempted to reach across partisan lines Tuesday night while pleading with her political foes to stand with her struggling pro-Trump network in its time of need. “It is absolutely crucial that, for once, we defy the powers that be, that we all come together, set aside our differences in a unified effort so that we can recognize the horrifying danger that lies ahead,” Steinberg said in response to Verizon’s decision to not renew its Fios contract with OAN. According to The New York Times, when Verizon’s move takes effect on Saturday, OAN will have seen its removal from roughly 20 million homes in 2022, as the network was also dropped by DirectTV earlier this year. Steinberg went on to make a direct appeal to viewers experiencing schadenfreude amid OAN’s final days of wide-scale distribution: “If you’re watching this and you’re laughing and scoffing because you think that you’re immune to what’s coming, you just wait. Enjoy your freedoms while you still got ’em.”

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With the Verizon announcement last week, the far-right channel—which is owned by Herring Networks and rose to prominence last year after it pushed Trumpworld’s most crackpot election-fraud claims—is slated to lose its last major pay-TV provider and one of its biggest revenue streams. AT&T declared in January that DirecTV would be dropping the network, leading to OAN’s removal from some 15 million homes in April. The Times report noted that OAN will still be available to a few hundred thousand consumers who subscribe to various minor cable providers, including Frontier and GCI Liberty. “I really think this is the death blow for the network,” Scott Robson, a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, told the paper.

In another segment protesting Verizon’s decision, OAN host Pearson Sharp called the company a “radical Marxist corporation,” saying, “Over the last few years, we’ve watched as countless independent, freethinking, and conservative organizations were shut down and censored by the radical left. Regrettably, that toxic cancel culture is still alive and well, and it’s coming after One America News.” Sharp, whose most notable on-air moment was perhaps his calling for mass political executions over supposed 2020 election-fraud crimes, also accused the telecom giant of joining a Biden administration plot to “censor and silence” OAN.

Media Matters, a progressive media watchdog that has worked to steer advertisers and cable providers away from OAN by publicizing its most unhinged segments and stunts, praised the Verizon decision in a statement last Thursday. “OAN is a cauldron of conspiracy theories, extremism, and lies,” wrote Media Matters president Angelo Carusone. “It was able to exist all these years in its current form only because it was being subsidized by AT&T/DirecTV and Verizon.… Losing Verizon is like the final nail in the coffin for OAN. No other cable company should throw them a lifeline by picking them up.”

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Apple's internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27.

In a write-up for MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security), a public interest group that looks after internet routing, Internet Society senior internet technology manager Aftab Siddiqui said that Russia's Rostelecom started announcing routes for part of Apple's network on Tuesday, a practice referred to as BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking.

BGP is the glue that links multiple networks together to form the internet. Unfortunately, the protocol is too credulous. When an autonomous system (AS) – a group of networks managed by a single entity – announces routes for groups of IP addresses (IP prefixes) that it does not own, internet traffic will generally adapt to those routes if the rogue announcement isn't filtered out.

Some bad route announcements are accidental and a result of something like a configuration blunder, and some announcements are straight-up malicious.

For example, in 2018 cyberthieves used BGP hijacking to meddle with Amazon's Route 53 DNS service and redirect internet traffic from a cryptocurrency website to a phishing site hosted in Russia.

The redirection of Apple's networking traffic began about 2125 UTC on Tuesday, according to Siddiqui, when Rostelecom’s AS12389 network began announcing 17.70.96.0/19, which is part of Apple's 17.0.0.0/8 block and is usually announced as part of the larger 17.0.0.0/9 block.

The routing change was detected by BGPstream.com (Cisco Works), which identified the block as AS714 APPLE-ENGINEERING, US, and by GRIP Internet Intel (GA Tech). And it lasted just over 12 hours.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment and The Register is unaware of any public statement the company may have made about the hijacking of its network traffic.

"It is not clear which services were impacted by this incident," said Siddiqui. "Unless we get more details from Apple or other researchers, we can only guess."

Siddiqui said Rostelecom (AS12389) has been involved in previous BGP hijackings, and emphasized that network operators implement effective route filtering based on reliable information to thwart these shenanigans.

The Register asked MANRS whether anyone there had heard anything from Apple since its post was published and a spokesperson replied, "We have not heard anything from Apple yet on this issue. The MANRS team is reaching out privately to learn more about the incident."

In 2020, Cloudflare created the website Is BGP safe yet? while knowing full well that it is not. At the time this story was filed, the answer to that question was still, "No." ®

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Britain's rail network hit by new strike action over pay dispute - Reuters UK

A view of trains on the platform at Waterloo Station as a station worker stands nearby, on the first day of national rail strike in London, Britain, June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - Britain's rail network suffered major disruption again on Wednesday as staff walked out in a row over pay and conditions, the latest in a wave of industrial unrest as wages fail to keep pace with soaring inflation.

The 24-hour strike by more than 40,000 members of the RMT and TSSA unions forced around half of Britain's rail network to close, with train companies operating a much reduced timetable and some parts of the country having no rail service at all.

Network Rail urged passengers, including commuters, families heading off on summer holidays, and sports fans on their way to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham which begins on Thursday, to only travel if necessary.

Changing working practices during the coronavirus pandemic meant many office workers were able to opt to work from home.

Strike action last month brought Britain's rail network close to a standstill for three days and just last week some key lines running the length of the country were forced to close when record temperatures damaged the track. read more

"Our members are more determined than ever to secure a decent pay rise, job security and good working conditions," RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said in a statement.

"Network Rail have not made any improvement on their previous pay offer and the train companies have not offered us anything new."

The RMT union said it had received an offer of a 4% rise, followed by a possible 4% the following year dependent on staff accepting changes to their contracts.

Another union, ASLEF, representing train drivers said on Wednesday its members at nine rail companies would strike on Aug. 13 over pay, on top of strike action planned for this Saturday.

Inflation in Britain is running at a 40-year high and is expected to reach double digits later this year, driven by surging fuel and food prices.

Soaring inflation and more than 10 years of stagnant real wages have triggered Britain's worst cost-of-living crisis since records began in the 1950s, exacerbating labour tensions across sectors including postal services, health, schools, airports and the judiciary. read more

It has also become a point of contention in the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, with the final two candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, vowing to crack down on strike action.

The government last week changed the law to make it easier for businesses to use temporary staff to minimise the impact of strike action. read more

Ferry services to Cowes in the Isle of Wight will also be disrupted on Wednesday due to strike action, and a new train strike is expected on Saturday. read more

Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; additional reporting by William Schomberg; Editing by Nick Macfie and Tomasz Janowski

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OAN, a Dependable Trump Promoter, Faces a ‘Death Blow’ - The New York Times

After Verizon drops the network at the end of this week, OAN’s cable TV audience will shrink dramatically.

The future of One America News, which established itself as a powerful voice in conservative media by promoting some of the most outlandish falsehoods about the 2020 election, is in serious doubt as major carriers drop it from their lineups and defamation lawsuits threaten to drain its finances.

By the end of this week, the cable network will have lost its presence in some 20 million homes this year. The most recent blow came from Verizon, which will stop carrying OAN on its Fios television service starting Saturday. That will starve the network of a major stream of revenue: the fees it collects from Verizon, which counts roughly 3.5 million cable subscribers. In April, OAN was dropped by AT&T’s DirecTV, which has about 15 million subscribers.

OAN’s remaining audience will be small. The network will soon be available only to a few hundred thousand people who subscribe to smaller cable providers, such as Frontier and GCI Liberty, said Scott Robson, a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence. OAN also sells its programming directly to users through its OAN Live and KlowdTV streaming platforms, but those products most likely provide a fraction of the revenue generated by traditional TV providers.

“I really think this is the death blow for the network,” Mr. Robson said.

In its statement announcing the termination of its OAN deal, Verizon said only that it had been “unable to reach an agreement to continue carrying One America News,” and made no mention of the public pressure campaigns it faced from activist groups like Media Matters, which had been calling on cable providers to drop the network. A company spokeswoman declined to comment further on Tuesday.

DirecTV also did not elaborate on its reasons for dropping OAN, saying in January that the move was part of a “routine internal review.” On Tuesday, the company referred to the January statement.

While OAN doesn’t have the influence wielded by the much larger Fox News, the top-rated cable news network, the fees from its deals with Verizon and AT&T provided a substantial stream of income, about $36 million a year by some estimates. And once it is gone from millions of television sets, OAN will be in a weaker bargaining position with advertisers — fewer potential viewers most likely mean fewer companies willing to pay as much to promote their products on the network.

All this comes at a particularly bad time for OAN, which is based in San Diego. The company and the Herring family that backs it face defamation lawsuits over the network’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald J. Trump.

That coverage featured wild stories about supposed plots to steal votes from Mr. Trump. The voting technology companies Smartmatic and Dominion are suing OAN over false claims that their machines enabled Mr. Trump’s enemies to switch votes cast for him to President Biden. One employee of Dominion, Eric Coomer, is also suing the network. Mr. Coomer received death threats after OAN named him in a report as an alleged collaborator of antifa, the far-left movement.

Two election workers from Georgia sued OAN for reporting that they were part of an illegal plot to add fraudulent votes to President Biden’s totals in the state, which he narrowly won. OAN settled that case in April.

The cases are among a series of defamation suits against conservative media outlets and Trump allies that are pending before judges across the country. Dominion and Smartmatic are also suing Newsmax, one of OAN’s competitors, and Fox News.

For OAN, the litigation has so far not gone well, as judges have rejected its attempts to have the cases dismissed. In one ruling, a judge concluded that OAN had acted “maliciously and consciously” in perpetuating falsehoods about Dominion, and that its chief White House correspondent, Chanel Rion, had failed to exercise even the most minimal journalistic scrutiny.

In her report, Ms. Rion cited a conservative podcaster and activist, Joe Oltmann, who claimed to have eavesdropped on an antifa conference call before the election. She reported that “antifa-drenched engineers are hell bent on deleting half of America’s voice” and referred to Mr. Coomer.

Last year, Charles Herring, the president of OAN’s owner, Herring Networks, defended the coverage in remarks to The New York Times, saying that the network has a review process with multiple checks in place to ensure news coverage is up to company standards.

“Based on our investigations, voter irregularities clearly took place in the November 2020 election,” he said. “The real question is to what extent.”

Started in 2013 by Mr. Herring’s father, Robert Herring, a tech entrepreneur, OAN was for years a little-watched, right-wing cable network running stories about a Republican effort to impeach President Barack Obama and about American Muslims joining the Islamic State.

The conservative takeover of Washington in 2017 gave it new life. That year, DirecTV struck a deal to carry the channel and substantially expanded its potential viewership. Mr. Trump gushed about its flattering coverage of him, lavishing on it the kind of praise he typically reserved for Fox News, calling OAN “a great network.”

Part of an OAN broadcast that described “alleged improper ballot counting” was screened at a Senate campaign event in Valdosta, Ga., in December 2020.Dustin Chambers/Reuters

OAN became not only a reliable purveyor of fawning coverage of Mr. Trump but also a dogged pursuer of his political opponents. Its willingness to bend the truth and give voice to conspiracy theories on a variety of topics — vaccines, Covid-19, the identities of the rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — went further than any of its competitors in the pro-Trump media sphere.

Mr. Trump rewarded the network’s loyalty. In the summer of 2020, dissatisfied with what he considered insufficiently positive coverage from Fox News, he urged his followers to instead watch OAN and Newsmax, deeming them “much better!” He did so again after the election, when OAN’s correspondents were more willing than many Fox journalists to continue lending credibility to allegations of voter fraud.

More so than some of its competitors, for months OAN clung to the notion that the election remained unresolved. At times, the network acted as if Mr. Biden were not the president. The channel did not broadcast live coverage of his inauguration. In a report in late March 2021, one of its correspondents claimed, “There’s still serious doubts about who’s actually president.”

Now OAN is trying to shore up its viewership. In recent days, an advertisement on its website offered new subscribers free access to its OAN Live service through Oct. 31.

Its anchors have cast their network’s dispute with Verizon as another attempt by a corporate media establishment to silence conservative voices.

One anchor, Dan Ball, recently implored viewers to call Verizon and demand that it continue service of OAN. “Call that number. You want to tell them, ‘Keep OAN. Keep OAN,’” he said. “Verizon is the next one trying to censor One America News.”

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