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Penn State finally nabs Matt Campbell after booster-fueled soap opera; Arctic air chills Philly as Temple delivers 3,000 toys; cyber alarms over Apache Tika flaw, new DDoS tactics, Predator spyware, and NIST IoT guidance; Trump pardons then blasts Cuellar, to host the Kennedy Center Honors after reentering office
Penn State finally lands Matt Campbell after booster-fueled soap opera
Matt Campbell arrived in State College at 4:35 p.m. to a runway cheer line, a bear hug from AD Pat Kraft, and the end of a 54-day search that flirted with BYU's Kalani Sitake, survived a cookie-powered booster coup, and even pinged Campbell's former agent by mistake. The 46-year-old, a four-time conference coach of the year who went 72-55 at Iowa State and 35-15 at Toledo, is set for roughly eight years at about 10 million per year pending a Monday Board committee nod, with a noon intro at Beaver Stadium. Iowa State AD Jamie Pollard said timing was shaped by family considerations. The landing was smooth. January is where the turbulence starts.
Arctic air returns to Philly
Wind chills in the teens and 20s Monday morning, highs near freezing in the afternoon. Ideal conditions to discover that your winter coat is mostly a suggestion.
Temple's holiday party delivers nearly 3,000 toys
Temple University's 28th annual Children's Holiday Party turned campus goodwill into almost 3,000 gifts for local kids on Friday. A rare finals-week plot twist where joy beats spreadsheets, and we applaud it without irony.
Critical Apache Tika flaw, fresh DDoS tactics, Predator spyware, and new NIST IoT guidance
Apache warned of a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in Tika metadata ingestion, so put that humble file parser on the immediate patch list and check mitigations wherever it lives. Elsewhere, a new DDoS flavor is bubbling up from the Americas, Predator spyware is still shopping for phones like it never heard of ethics, and NIST dropped updated IoT security guidance for anyone still letting their fridge talk to the internet without supervision. If it parses files, floods pipes, stalks phones, or connects to the world, assume someone is trying to weaponize it and act accordingly.
Trump blasts Cuellar for disloyalty days after pardoning him
On Truth Social, Donald Trump accused Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar of a lack of loyalty for running as a Democrat, vowed no more Mr. Nice Guy, and repeated that Democrats weaponized the justice system against him. Cuellar and his wife were charged last year with taking 600,000 dollars to advance the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy firm and a Mexican bank, and with agreeing to influence legislation tied to Azerbaijan. After the pardon, Cuellar thanked Trump, filed for reelection as a conservative Democrat, and said he would work with the president while voting for what he thinks is right. Translation, Trump expected a loyalty card, Cuellar says thanks for the coupon, he is keeping the label.
Trump to host the Kennedy Center Honors after reentering office
On Sunday, President Trump becomes the first president to host the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, and he is doing it after remaking the house staff, terminating multiple board members and tightening his grip on the arts center named for JFK. Nothing says cultural stewardship like firing the ushers before taking the stage.
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