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Security Affairs

ChainScript: the RAT that hides its command server inside a blockchain contract

Blackpoint uncovers ChainScript, a Node.js RAT that queries a Polygon smart contract to find and rotate its command server.
Reuters

EverBank to combine with WaFd in $3.9 billion reverse merger

Sept 7 (Reuters) - Florida-based EverBank Financial has agreed to acquire WaFd (WAFD.O), opens new tab, a ‌smaller bank in the Pacific Northwest, in a $3.9 billion reverse merger transaction, the ...
Pitchfork

So Much for Goodbyes

Friends don’t tell friends about Billy Strings, the songwriter. They rave, instead, about the guitarist who routes his acoustic through pedals that make him sound like Jimi or Iommi or Hammett or ...
Billboard

Billy Strings’ ‘So Much for Goodbyes’: All 16 Tracks Ranked

The acclaimed bluegrass artist's latest album is a profound meditation on grief inspired by the recent death of his mother. By Eric Renner Brown Over the last few years, virtuosic bluegrass player ...
MOJO Magazine

Billy Strings – So Much For Goodbyes Review: An unflinching exploration of grief

He’s bent the genre for so long now that labelling Billy Strings ‘bluegrass’ seems pointless. As with his 2022 album Me/And/Dad, recorded with his stepfather Terry Barber, this tribute to his late ...
The Guardian

Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning On the face of it, 2025 was a ...
JamBase

Billy Strings Recalls Surreal Bob Dylan Encounter On Theo Von’s ‘This Past Weekend’

Billy Strings returned to Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast for a nearly three-hour conversation that touched on fatherhood, addiction, grief, his upcoming album and a recent injury. But perhaps ...
Cosmopolitan

What Is the Invisible String Theory? Therapists Explain the Viral Relationship Belief

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Whether you see the invisible string theory as a comforting metaphor, a spiritual belief, or just a fun ...
American Physical Society

Can String Theory Be Explained with No Strings Attached?

Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy processes. Figure 1: “Pulling oneself up by the ...
American Songwriter

Denver Jury Convicts Billy Strings’ Half-Brother in 2020 Guitarist Killing

In 2020, Denver police stumbled on a truly horrific scene when they discovered the body of guitarist Zackary Smith in a rolled-over car. Located near the East Colfax area, Smith had been shot in the ...