Black Hat USA 2024 | Briefings Schedule (www.blackhat.com)
Links to Black Hat talks that include the slides.
Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists (www.theguardian.com)
Opponents fear proposed bill could allow girls as young as nine to marry, erode women’s rights and give greater powers to clerics...
Gruesome find in North Korean ‘ghost ship’ washed ashore in Japan (www.news.com.au)
Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto (www.nytimes.com)
Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)
Palestinian horse centre vows to rebuild after West Bank demolition (www.bbc.com)
It was 07:30 in the morning in late January when Khaled Ifranji received the phone call he had always feared. He had just passed through an Israeli military checkpoint on his way from his home in occupied East Jerusalem to his work in the occupied West Bank, when one of his employees rang to say the Israeli army was...
More than 100 neglected animals rescued from home in southern California (www.theguardian.com)
Animal services officials in southern California have rescued more than 100 neglected animals including dogs, horses, birds and pet cockroaches from a home in Riverside county....
‘Uncontacted’ Indigenous group attacks loggers in the Peruvian Amazon (www.theguardian.com)
Members of an “uncontacted” Indigenous group used bows and arrows to attack loggers in the Peruvian Amazon in a confrontation that left at least one person injured, according to a local Indigenous organisation....
‘Another day of horror’: UN rights office condemns Israeli strikes at Gazan school (news.un.org)
At around 4:30am on Saturday, a mosque inside Al Tabaeen School was struck by the Israeli Forces “at least three times”, the UN rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement, adding that the attacks were “conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian fatalities”....
UK children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online (www.theguardian.com)
Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said....
Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities (cybersecuritynews.com)
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Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard takes gold in Olympic breaking final (apnews.com)
Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men’s breaking tournament Saturday....
U.S. regulator proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts to protect consumers and stop election misinformation by phone (www.engadget.com)
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We need more games like The Stanley Parable, so I'm making one! Please share ideas and suggestions about what you want to see in this type of game! (store.steampowered.com)
Hello guys, I’ve noticed a lot of people here are hungry for more games like the Stanley Parable. After playing the O.G. game and the Deluxe edition I’ve found myself wanting more of this. More of these meta, narrator led, weird humour games! I started work on my called Do Not Press The Button (To Delete The Multiverse). You...
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
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French 'kleptomaniac' gets suspended sentence for massive wine theft. (www.rfi.fr)
Ukraine was biding its time: while outside analysts downplayed their chances, the Ukrainians were quietly planning an offensive across the Russian border (www.theatlantic.com)
Earlier this week, reports began filtering in that Ukrainian forces had entered Russia’s Kursk province, in what many analysts assumed was a small cross-border raid—of a sort that Ukraine has attempted a few times since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. But as the hours and days ticked by and Ukrainian forces moved...
OnePlus Open Apex Edition launched in India (gadgetsavailable.com)
The OnePlus Open Apex Edition has been officially launched in India. The smartphone comes in new configurations and with new software features. The Apex Edition has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of internal storage....
Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina alleges US role in ouster, says could've remained in power if she surrendered sovereignty of Saint Martin Island (m.economictimes.com)
AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA (www.theregister.com)
Man missing for 30 years reappears wearing the same clothes he left in and with no idea of what happened to him (www.msn.com)
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Debby finally moves out of the U.S., though risk from flooded rivers remains (www.npr.org)
Debby finally moved out of the U.S. on Saturday after the storm spent the better part of week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as it moved up the East Coast after first arriving in Florida as a hurricane....