Times Square New Year’s Eve rings in 2018 [with record cold]
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As a teenager, I was capable of hacking into critical municipal infrastructure. I wasn’t an elite operator, but I knew where the vulnerabilities were and how to get around systems that weren’t even protected in the first place. From default passwords to open ports, attackers don’t need to be brilliant when defenders leave doors open. This approach is exactly how Iranian-linked hackers locked…
Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, senior WHO official Rik Peeperkorn said. It will be rolled…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday, threatening to ramp up tensions as the Trump administration warns of possible military action to get Iran to the negotiating table. The drone “aggressively…
Jan. 28 (UPI) — The Trump administration directed federal agencies to stop distributing loans and grants Tuesday until a review is held to ensure the spending meets Trump’s agenda. In a memo late Monday viewed by CNN, The Hill, and The Washington Post Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget…
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister on Tuesday blasted the release of emergency oil stocks as an attempt to “manipulate markets”, the latest apparent salvo in a spat with Washington over oil production. “People are depleting their emergency stocks, had depleted it, used it as a mechanism to manipulate markets while its profound purpose was to mitigate…
Reports suggest that the rate of migrants illegally traversing the border between Canada and the United States could surpass previous years’ figures. Data provided by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicates a surge in migrant encounters along the northern border—with figures from October 2023 to April 2024 reaching 9,460, still with five months left in…