Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Operation Zero, a Russian company, has increased its bounty for zero-day exploits on iPhones and Android devices from $200,000 to $20 million....
SpaceX wins first Pentagon contract for Starshield, its satellite network for military use (www.cnbc.com)
The Pentagon has awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX its first confirmed contract for the Starshield network it’s developing, a military-specific version of the company’s Starlink satellite internet system, the defense agency said Wednesday....
Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India (www.washingtonpost.com)
India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders.
SAG-AFTRA Pushes For Another Video Game Strike - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
SAG-AFTRA is now targeting the gaming industry, pushing for strike action in a bid to secure better compensation for 'gaming performers'.
Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians will leave for Armenia, adviser to leader says (www.reuters.com)
The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will leave for Armenia as they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region told Reuters on Sunday....
How would you expain the idea of social status to a child? (en.wikipedia.org)
Social status (in my own words) is the idea that a person has a relative social worth in a certain context. For example in a class room a teacher has a high social status and therefore must be listened to. On the other hand, if that same teacher was stopped by the police for speeding, they would not have a relatively low status...
France accused of attack on press freedom after journalist arrest (www.theguardian.com) French
France has been accused of an “unacceptable” attack on press freedom after the arrest of an investigative journalist who reported on leaked documents that alleged French intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt.
UN warns disease outbreak in Libya's flooded east could spark 'second crisis' (abcnews.go.com)
Officials warned Monday that a disease outbreak in Libya’s northeast, where floods have killed thousands, could create “a second devastating crisis” as adults and children fell ill from contaminated water....
Death and disappearance of British volunteers in Ukraine exposes rivalry in foreign legion. Comrades fear two men may have been killed not by Russians but by fellow foreign soldiers. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Hurricane Lee to strike weather-worn New England after heavy rain, flooding and tornadoes (apnews.com)
IRS will pause taking claims for pandemic-era tax credit due to an influx of fraudulent claims (apnews.com)
The Internal Revenue Service is pausing accepting claims for a pandemic-era tax credit until 2024 due to rising concerns that an influx of applications are fraudulent....
Caesars Entertainment confirms ransom payment, customer data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Caesars’ 8-K also implies that a ransom demanded by the attackers was paid to prevent the leak of the stolen data online—a Wall Street Journal report says the hotel and casino entertainment company paid roughly $15 million, half of the attackers’ initial $30 million demand.
‘Destiny 2’ Is Now Reselling Old Seasonal Cosmetics For Nine Times The Price (www.forbes.com)
Just when I was giving Bungie credit for taking Destiny 2 armor out of Eververse this season and making it an earned, in-game reward, we now have a situation I’d describe as pretty baffling.
‘Starfield’ Announces Nvidia DLSS Support, Food-Eating Button, Future City Maps (www.forbes.com)
Bethesda has just published a new blog post detailing updates coming to Starfield in the short and long term, including a ton of popular requests, most of them on the technical side, initially.
China touts economic gains for Taiwan in co-development plan with Fujian (www.reuters.com)
How Russia drafts migrants to fight in Ukraine (www.dw.com)
Russia needs soldiers, and its authorities are increasingly turning to migrants to fill the military’s ranks. Guest workers from Central Asian countries are often rounded up on the street, taken to recruitment offices and pressured into signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry. This process can involve threats and...
[EFF] California’s Middle Mile Network Must Bridge the Digital Divide, Not Reinforce It (www.eff.org)
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Romania: Consternation at state's response to Russian drone – DW – 09/08/2023 (www.dw.com)
Russia has been bombarding Ukraine's Danube River ports close to the Romanian border since late July. Why did Romania first deny and later confirm that a Russian drone had landed on its territory earlier this week?...
Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225838...
Education Department Suggests More Student Loan Forgiveness Approvals This Month (www.forbes.com)
The Biden administration is suggesting that more student loan forgiveness is coming, possibly sometime this month, under an account adjustment.
UN 'concerned' by the continued harassment and detention of human rights defenders in Bangladesh, including Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus and leaders of prominent rights organisation Odhikar. (www.aljazeera.com)
Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)
Historically, the disaster restoration industry was made up of smaller, independent businesses handling local projects. But after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, private equity firms saw an opportunity to consolidate the market by buying up smaller companies, and some estimates value the US restoration industry as high as $200bn.
Special counsel election probe continues with focus on fundraising, voting equipment breaches (www.cnn.com)
Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril....
Amid anticorruption purge, Ukraine set to appoint Muslim defence chief (www.aljazeera.com)
Rustem Umerov is from the Muslim Tatar community in Crimea that largely resisted Russia’s 2014 annexation.