#Windows #vulnerability reported by the #NSA exploited to install Russian #malware

Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/kremlin-backed-hackers-exploit-critical-windows-vulnerability-reported-by-the-nsa/

When Microsoft patched the vulnerability in October 2022—at least two years after it came under #attack by the Russian hackers—the company made no mention that it was under active exploitation.

#patch #update #exploit #Russia #security #CyberSecurity #news #os #software #hack #hacker

Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware

Microsoft didn't disclose the in-the-wild exploits by Kremlin-backed group until now.

^{Ars Technica}

Collapsing earth and vast chasms .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-61d57e25-d458-4785-8a37-3ef119a504c7

#collapsed #earth #climatechange #chasm #gorge #ravine #danger #news #warnings

The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world - BBC News

Huge gullies that open up suddenly, swallowing homes and businesses, are advancing at a worrying speed, warn experts.

^{BBC News}

@tonystark I found this article...not sure if you have come across it.

How Conservative Policies and Rhetoric Kill People

Study after study says it: Right-wing policies and rhetoric lead to more homicides and suicides. Why don’t more people know this?

#Politics USpoli #NEws
https://newrepublic.com/article/180829/conservative-policies-rhetoric-kill-people

How Conservative Policies and Rhetoric Kill People

^{The New Republic}

Frog story. 🐸🔥🌡️

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The US Senate approves consideration of bills to provide $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Senators now have 30 hours to discuss the documents before the final vote.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #BreakingNews #Breaking

New Legislation Would Expand Access to Disaster Relief, Provide Help With Titles for Large Number of #Black Landowners
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The bills come after ProPublica’s reporting on land passed down informally within #families, known as heirs’ property.

Representing about one-third of Black-owned land in the #South, it can be ineligible for aid and vulnerable to forced sales.

#News #Property #RealEstate #Race #Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/heirs-property-black-land-loss-disaster-relief-legislation-fletcher

Legislation Seeks to Aid Many Black Landowners in the South

The bills come after ProPublica’s reporting on land passed down informally within families, known as heirs’ property. Representing about one-third of Black-owned land in the South, it can be ineligible for aid and vulnerable to forced sales.

^ProPublica

There's been a big development in detransitioner Chloe Cole's lawsuit against her former gender-affirming providers. #trans #transgender #news #law #detransition

We tapped a trans subject matter expert who's been following all the ins and outs for months to write about it, complete with a bunch of juicy screenshots of court documents, here:

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/chloe-cole-brockman-kaiser-lawsuit-arbitration

What’s Up With Chloe Cole’s Lawsuit?

Checking in on the most famous detransitioner’s lawsuit against the Kaiser Permanente providers who once treated her gender dysphoria with transition care.

^Assigned

The Family #Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a #Black Community
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A longtime resident of the Shoe Lane area in #Virginia chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University.

His photographs helped a reporter seek #accountability.

#News #Richmond #Race #RealEstate #Property #Community #Education

https://www.propublica.org/article/family-photos-of-shoe-lane-destruction

Photos Document the Demolition of a Black Community in Virginia

A longtime resident of the Shoe Lane area in Virginia chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.

^ProPublica

High-speed rail system from Las Vegas to Southern California has broken ground today, per CNBC.

The project received $3 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the rest will be privately funded, according to the company.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

The project is expected to have an over $10 billion economic impact and will create more than 35,000 jobs in Nevada and California during the construction, according to the release.

Read more: https://t.co/bqJ2W5h9wS

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

This is a great article by professor Nir Eisikovits, but I think he could have dove deeper. Agreed that media literacy is a problem, but I think it's more pervasive than people consuming "news" through social media, rather the question becomes: Why did people turn to social media to consume news? That question is at the core of the problem of media literacy and critical thinking in the U.S.

1/5

#SocialMedia #News #TikTok

Source | https://theconversation.com/tiktok-fears-point-to-larger-problem-poor-media-literacy-in-the-social-media-age-226667

TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age

If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.

^{The Conversation}

#CVE-2024-20356: #Jailbreaking a #Cisco appliance to run #DOOM

In this adventure, the Cisco #C195 device family was jailbroken in order to run unintended code. This includes the discovery of a vulnerability in the #CIMC body management controller which affects a range of different devices, whereby an authenticated high privilege user can obtain underlying root access to the server’s #BMC (CVE-2024-20356) which in itself has high-level access to various other components in the system. The end goal was to run DOOM – if a smart fridge can do it, why not Cisco?

source: https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2024-20356-jailbreaking-a-cisco-appliance-to-run-doom/

#software #security #bug #network #game #news #vulnerability #exploit #hack #hacker

CVE-2024-20356: Jailbreaking a Cisco appliance to run DOOM - LRQA Nettitude Labs

Exploiting remote code execution in Cisco's CIMC management system and jailbreaking the device to run untrusted code

^{Aaron Thacker (LRQA Nettitude Labs)}

Wet wipes containing plastic will be banned from being sold in the UK, with legislation expected to be announced by Environment Secretary Steve Barclay today.

The government is planning to introduce the legislation before parliament's summer recess begins in July.

The new law will make it illegal to sell wet wipes containing plastic in England.
#news #GoodNews #EarthDay

https://news.sky.com/story/wet-wipes-containing-plastic-to-be-banned-from-sale-in-uk-13120426

Wet wipes containing plastic to be banned from sale in UK

Environment Secretary Steve Barclay has said the move "builds on a raft of actions already taken to protect our waterways" - but the government has been criticised for not going far enough.

^{Sky News}

The #performance of the #Windows 11 #StartMenu is ridiculously bad

source: https://nitter.privacydev.net/anerdguynow/status/1777764221088129227

The Windows 11 Start Menu is comically bad.

This machine has a $1600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM and this is the performance I often get.

What is going on in Redmond?

#software #os #microsoft #problem #criticism #news #fail

Andy Young (@anerdguynow)

The Windows 11 Start Menu is comically bad. This machine has a $1600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM and this is the performance I often get. What is going on in Redmond?

^Nitter

University protests against Israel's war in Gaza are spreading across the U.S. After multiple Columbia University students were arrested last week for refusing to leave an encampment, arrests were made at Yale University today.

Daily Beast has a recap of what's happening, including new protests at New York University and the University of Michigan: https://flip.it/2MJY.s

For more stories on the Mideast crisis, follow @israel-hamas-war-thenewsdesk

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #News #Academia #HigherEd #Protest

“It is likely that there are many more heat-related injuries and deaths than TDCJ has acknowledged because hyperthermia is known to be an underreported cause of #death...”

New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death”. From Staff Writer Michelle Pitcher: https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-heat-lawsuit-tdcj/

#news #politics #USpol #prison #HumanRights #Texas

'There Have to Be Limits': Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down ‘There Have to Be Limits’: Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down

^{Michelle Pitcher (The Texas Observer)}

President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.

NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."

https://flip.it/ImkS4B

#EarthDay #Biden #ClimateChange #USPolitics #Climate #News

Speaker Mike Johnson is drawing closer to a career-defining choice for a Republican speaker — whether to rely on Democratic help to stay in the job.

With three Republicans endorsing a motion to terminate his leadership, Johnson will need Democratic support to survive if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) follows through on her threat to force a vote on his removal.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/mike-johnson-is-about-to-get-the-ultimate-democratic-bailout-he-might-survive-anyway-00153424

EARTH DAY 2024 ✨

Biden marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants

President Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Biden #USA #earthday

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vYWJjbmV3cy5nby5jb20vVVMvd2lyZVN0b3J5L2JpZGVuLW1hcmtpbmctZWFydGgtZGF5LWFubm91bmNpbmctNy1iaWxsaW9uLWZlZGVyYWwtMTA5NDg2NjY10gFmaHR0cHM6Ly9hYmNuZXdzLmdvLmNvbS9hbXAvVVMvd2lyZVN0b3J5L2JpZGVuLW1hcmtpbmctZWFydGgtZGF5LWFubm91bmNpbmctNy1iaWxsaW9uLWZlZGVyYWwtMTA5NDg2NjY1?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Raw Story:
Las Vegas casino unions preparing to take on Trump again

Now ahead of November's election, the Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 mainly Las Vegas-based hotel and casino workers, is preparing to mobilize its formidable network against Donald Trump for a third time.
https://www.rawstory.com/las-vegas-casino-unions-preparing-to-take-on-trump-again-2667834296/

#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats

Las Vegas casino unions preparing to take on Trump again

It is the Democrats' not-so-secret weapon in Nevada -- a vast army of maids, cooks and bartenders that helped deliver this razor-tight swing state for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in 2016 and 2020.

^{Agence France-Presse (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)}

I am not fond of David Brooks, but I certainly understand why he finds the Cass Report so compelling.

For cisgender people who have no pre-existing knowledge, it's really a perfect document. It is completely decorous while implying that there are too many trans people and efforts should be made to limit their numbers.#trans #transgender #news #journalism #newyorktimes

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/david-brooks-hilary-cass-empathy-transgender

62-year-old Cisgender Man Declares Hilary Cass Empathetic

David Brooks is not qualified to judge this, or anything else, about transgender healthcare.

^{Evan Urquhart (Assigned)}

"Academic psychologists tell us that between 65% and 75% of jurors make up their minds about a case after the opening statement.

What’s even more incredible is that 85% of those jurors maintain the position they formed after the opening statement once all evidence is received and the trial is closed."

A Harvard Law School professor previews the psychology of today's court proceedings:
https://theconversation.com/expect-lawyers-to-set-the-tone-in-trumps-hush-money-trial-with-dramatic-possibly-explosive-opening-arguments-228366
#Trump #News #BreakingNews

Expect lawyers to set the tone in Trump’s hush money trial with dramatic, possibly explosive, opening arguments

In criminal trials, a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing the opening arguments from lawyers.

^{The Conversation}