TIL about the Mikiphone, a portable wind-up phonograph invented in the 1920s that could be stored in a small case that could fit in your pocket. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eef5b932-c9fc-4292-90ad-6ecde017ecf3.png...
NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)
Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.
Judge approves $600 million settlement for residents near fiery Ohio derailment (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of last year’s disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio....
U.S. ‘Unimpressed’ With Ukraine’s Victory Plan Ahead of Biden-Zelensky Meeting (www.wsj.com)
Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
Elon Musk has managed to decimate Twitter’s UK users since taking over the platform and rebranding it as X, Financial Times analysis shows....
Tlaib Slams Biden for Deploying Troops to Middle East as Israel Bombs Lebanon (truthout.org)
Outspoken advocates for Palestinian rights, including Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Cori Bush (D-Missouri), have said that bolstering the U.S.’s military presence in the region will only worsen an already catastrophic situation created by Israeli forces over the past year — and could increase the already...
As School Threats Proliferate, More Than 700 Students Are Arrested (www.nytimes.com)
Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby....
Hacking wizard gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor, though it takes almost 5 days to boot the kernel (www.pcgamer.com)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption investigation (abc7ny.com)
Trump-Zelenskyy feud escalates as Republicans demand envoy’s removal (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president...
Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name (techcrunch.com)
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development (www.phoronix.com)
Vanilla OS 2 - Future Plans, Updates, and Next Release (vanillaos.org)
Is this okay with Christians? (odysee.com)
Most Christians blindly say they are pro-IsraEl, but even some IsraElis and Jews are against these settlers’ theft of land, violence, and xenophobia.
This is what Gaza residents do to avoid being shot by sadistic IDF. We're just randomly shooting people in the street now. And sadly we in the US are paying for this to happen with our tax dollars. (youtube.com)
Biden administration pledges new glide bombs to Ukraine ahead of Zelenskyy White House meeting The U.S. also will announce more than $2 billion in additional military aid. (abcnews.go.com)
The Biden administration on Thursday announced $375 million more in security assistance for Ukraine, which for the first time will include American Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) glide bombs, a U.S. defense official told ABC News....
US thwarts French and British push for Lebanon ceasefire call at UN (www.theguardian.com)
An effort led by France and Britain to secure a joint statement by the UN security council calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon has stalled in the face of US objections.
We Can Simply Go Back To 2017 - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Russia has destroyed all thermal power plants, nearly all hydroelectric capacity in Ukraine ahead of winter, Zelensky says (kyivindependent.com)
Russia destroyed all thermal power plants and almost all hydroelectric capacity in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 25 during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York....
Iran, Trump, and the Third Assassination Plot (time.com)
NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted in campaign finance case (www.cnbc.com)
US, allies call for ‘immediate’ 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah (apnews.com)
Updated 10:16 PM EDT, September 25, 2024...
Exclusive-Russia has secret war drones project in China, intel sources say (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) - Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in the war against Ukraine, according to two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents reviewed by Reuters....
Mayor Eric Adams Indicted by Federal Prosecutors. (www.thecity.nyc)
Prigozhin used JPMorgan and HSBC for Wagner payments: Banks handled transactions for companies in Africa controlled by Russian warlord (www.ft.com)
Leaked documents obtained by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), a Washington-based think-tank, show that in 2017 a Sudanese company controlled by Prigozhin made purchases of industrial equipment from China that passed through large western banks....