Wholesale electricity prices soared during California’s September heat wave.

Hot, hot, hot!  What a way to start September, with record high temperatures across California, and what a test for the state’s electricity market. More California households have air conditioning than ever before, and it pushed electricity demand to an all-time record.

For today’s post, I want to look at what happened to wholesale electricity prices. Like many of you, I kept checking the CAISO price map throughout the heat wave, but now that temperatures – and prices – are back down, I wanted to look…

When we first formed MIDiA eight years ago, we saw the new entertainment world was going to require a new joined up approach for entertainment businesses. With the start of the ascent of the smartphone we made an intellectual bet that everything was going to become more interconnected, inter-dependent and inter-competitive. Our vision then, was to build analysis and data that cut across siloes, to help previously unrelated industries understand they were becoming connected. The ‘connecting the dots’ tagline that we launched with in 2014 was right for the time, but now the world has…

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Iran-linked APT42 (formerly UNC788) is suspected to be the actor behind over 30 cyber espionage attacks against activists and dissidents.

Experts attribute over 30 cyber espionage attacks against activists and dissidents to the Iran-linked APT42 (formerly UNC788).

The campaigns have been conducted since 2015 and are aimed at conducting information collection and surveillance operations against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to Teheran. Mandiant researchers pointed out that the APT42 operates on behalf of the Islamic…

Bluehost announced a new point and click solution that makes it easy for virtually anyone to create an eCommerce store with WordPress.

This is an opportunity for businesses for whom complexity of technology was a barrier to entry.

It’s also a door opener for agencies who can now more easily serve smaller clients and help them to become bigger and more successful businesses.

Bluehost highlighted the following benefits of their new eCommerce solution:

• Easy – Set up your beautiful online store to fit your needs, even without prior website experience, and with the option to lean on…

Mayor Ken Welch and St. Petersburg City Council kick off SPC Day celebration

September 9, 2022 by St. Petersburg College

At the St. Petersburg City Council meeting on September 8, the City of St. Petersburg officially helped St. Petersburg College kick off its 95^th anniversary celebration this month by presenting an official proclamation declaring Sept. 12 as “SPC Day” throughout the city.

Dr. Tonjua Williams, President of St. Petersburg College, accepted the proclamation in the city council chambers on behalf of SPC on Sept. 8. The proclamation was read by…

WordPress theme author Anders Norén is at it again with a new minimal block theme for blogs and personal websites. Björk is the 129th block theme to hit the directory and Norén’s 25th free WordPress theme. It follows the release of Poe, a portfolio style theme, less than two months ago.

Although Norén said he is a fan of the Icelandic singer, his new theme is named for his favorite tree. Björk is the Swedish name for birch.

“Birch trees are incredibly resilient, which is why you can find them closer to the tree line on the Swedish fjäll than any other type of tree,”…

Adam Bannister

08 September 2022 at 13:57 UTC

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Site backup plugin developer issues patch following reports of millions of exploit attempts

UPDATED WordPress websites running BackupBuddy have been urged to update the plugin amid reports of active exploitation of a high severity arbitrary file download/read vulnerability.

BackupBuddy, which is used to backup WordPress sites, and has around 140,000 active installations.

WordPress security firm Wordfence has…