The Pentagon says the move will save money, but acknowledges risk to military readiness.

Trump’s move of SPACECOM to Alabama has little to do with national security

^{Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)}

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-01/germany-already-met-its-2028-goal-for-reducing-coal-fired-power?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1Njg3Mjk4MywiZXhwIjoxNzU3NDc3NzgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMVdTU0xHT1lNVEMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDMkYxNDM5NTYzRjg0QTBFOEIxNzA5MzY0RjMyQ0JFOCJ9.c_zo55g0bhuIhU0wcfZNhOAaCic6yZoWnmPSUB3I-iE

With the launch of Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict over the weekend, we've been keeping a close eye on feedback and issues that have been arising (along with the Abyssal).

We've released 13 Hotfixes since launch and are currently working on the 0.3.0b patch, which will fix a lot of outstanding issues including the Warbringer's totem Ascendancy Notable. We expect to release it by the end of the week.

Here are some highlights from the patch:

Rise of the Abyssal Changes

• Abyssal Monsters can now be bound as Spectres.
• The Vessel of Kulemak's Teleport Slam can no longer be avoided, and the damage it deals has been reduced.
• Improved the telegraphing for the Vessel of Kulemak's arena-wide cleave. The cleave has also been made easier to dodge in the final part of the fight.
• The "Area is overrun by the Abyssal" Map Modifier now spreads Pits over a larger amount of the area.
• The Strider of the Pit's Spear Slam now has a global cooldown, and they now stop tracking you with their Storm skill when you are far enough away.
• Reduced the damage of the Crystal Wall used by Abyssal Stranglers.
• Reduced the movement speed of the Shepherd of the Pit, and reduced the damage dealt by their ground effect.
• Improved the invulnerability visual effect for the Lightless Moray. The ignite chance and damage from its shade form explosion has also been reduced.
• Abyssal Monsters now introduce some of their skills over the first 3 Acts instead of being able to use all of their skills from Act 1.
• Removed the motion blur effect played when Abyssal Pits closed.

Other Changes and Improvements

• One-time Rare Monsters found in the Campaign no longer have their fixed hidden modifiers when used as tamed beasts, or spectres.
• You will no longer remain locked onto enemies while sprinting. This improves cases where you would sprint away from an enemy then unintentionally turn around to use a skill targeting that enemy.
• You can now use Instance Management (Ctrl+click) on the button to jump in the Well of Souls.
• You can now use /hideout and similar commands from the Well of Souls.
• Maps without a Map Boss no longer spawn a boss arena with only a rare monster pack.
• Vendor windows will now remember any search text you've entered on a per NPC basis, until you exit to character selection.
• Boss fights with two bosses should now correctly restart from the beginning when a player Resurrects at Checkpoint after killing just one boss.
• The Soul Siphoner monster modifier has been reworked. The inner ring now reduces damage dealt, and the outer ring reduces Skill Speed for each time you use a Skill while standing in it. Both rings deal Physical Damage over Time (previously both rings prevented Mana recovery, drained Mana and dealt Lightning Damage over time).
• Forge Hammer no longer costs mana when used to recall the Hammer, and other skills such as Warcries cannot empower that use.
• Doedre's Dark Design, triggered by the Doedre's Undoing Support, now deals Spell Damage instead of Secondary Damage.
• Added missing Duration and Ground Effect types to the His Foul Emergence Skill to allow it to function with relevant support gems.
• Temporarily disabled the following Rogue Exiles: Taua, the Ruthless, Ulfred, the Afflicted, Drusian, the Artillerist, and Doran, the Deft.
• The Derelict Mansion Map Boss arena no longer requires finding a tome to open.
• The boss arena in Derelict Mansion Map will now be open if you die to the bosses after opening it once.
• The Razed Fields Map no longer stops you from entering the boss arena after it has been started.
• The barrier outside the church in Arastas can no longer be broken early.
• Improved the telegraphing of Yama the White's future sight skill.
• Increased the cooldown for some of Torvian, Hand of the Saviour's skills. The projectile speed of their bouncing axe skill has been reduced, and the amount of freeze build up Torvian causes when under the effects of the Twilight Order's Sword buff has been reduced.
• The Scourge of the Skies bird storm skill can no longer be avoided.
• The slam combo skill used by Kurtog, Lord of Kin can no longer be avoided.
• Some of the skills used by Great White One can no longer be avoided.
• The tracking of Azmadi, the Faridun Prince's triple lacerate skill is now more lenient.
• You can now use portals after defeating Siora, Blade of the Mists.
• Oswin, the Dread Warden now removes all the debuffs he has applied to the player when he is killed.
• Reduced the likelihood of Treant Foulspawns firing projectiles whilst walking.
• Reduced the damage of Quill Crab's quill projectiles.
• Updated the description of Lifetap Support to clarify it turns a Supported Skills Mana cost into a Life cost, rather than stating "a portion of".
• Updated the Tabna's Pillar World Map Icon to correctly describe the benefits it provides.
• Updated the Navali's Rest World Map Icon to indicate it provides a permanent benefit.
• Corrected and simplified Meditate's description. This is purely a description change.
• Clarified the Skill Description for Infernal Cry to indicate that it only Empowers Melee Attacks.
• Thunderous Leap's description no longer inaccurately mentions that it only detonates spear skills. As with any detonator skill, it detonates anything that is capable of being detonated.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Ancestral Spirits, granted by the Warbringer's Answered Call Notable Passive Skill, was failing to summon Ancestral Spirit Minions.
• Fixed a bug where you were unable to dodge roll past enemies when you were partially surrounded.
• Fixed a bug where the "Abyssal Pits in Area always have Rewards" modifier was not functioning correctly.
• Fixed a bug where Whirling Slash's travel distance could no longer change based on your attack speed.
• Fixed a bug where Spectres and Tamed Beasts could benefit from the out-of-combat life regeneration common to all persistent minions while in combat.
• Fixed a bug where reloading could fail on Crossbows, most noticeably when weapon swapping.
• Fixed a bug where Persistent Skills could not be activated when shapeshifted into Demon Form.
• Fixed a bug where the Brutus' Brain Support which causes supported Minions to take no damage, still worked with the Damage from hits is taken from your Damageable Companion's Life before you, from the Starkonja's Head Unique Helmet.
• Fixed a bug where increases to Frost Bomb limit was not functioning correctly with Spell Cascade Support.
• Fixed an issue where the Ahn's Citadel Support was not obtainable.
• Fixed a bug where Defy II Support was only disallowing Insufficient Mana from preventing the use of supported Melee Attacks rather than any supported Attacks.
• Fixed an issue where the Twin Bow's Attack Speed was unintentionally higher than other Bow base types with the same implicit (Dualstring Bow and Gemini Bow). It now has an Attack time of 1.1 seconds (previously 1.2).
• Fixed a bug where Ember Fusillade when supported by Wildshards would be able to "keep" the additional projectiles from a Wildshards proc by interrupting it fully firing.
• Fixed a bug where Resonating Shield, Shield Wall, and Fortifying Cry's shockwaves did not scale with area damage modifiers.
• Fixed an issue where some Infusion Duration small passives were labelled as "Infusion Damage". A Notable in the Sorceress starting area has also been renamed from "Infused Spell Damage" to instead be "Principal Infusion".
• Fixed a bug where Grisly Pyre from the His Winnowing Flame Skill did not describe how much damage it was dealing from consuming ignites on enemies.
• Fixed a bug which allowed Forge Hammer to be used in cases where it should be unusable.
• Fixed a bug where some Map Device microtransactions would place you inside the Map Device when returning from a Map, and others were missing their interactable object.
• Fixed a bug where the final Act 4 Boss could spawn a duplicate version during the fight.
• Fixed a bug where Travel Skills could not be used in Azmadi, the Faridun Prince's Boss arena.
• Fixed a bug where the Wayward Isle Map sometimes could not be completed.
• Fixed a bug where Siora, Blade of the Mists, and Thariel, the Umbral Wraith had a lingering damage reduction buff.
• Fixed a bug where defeating Manoki, the Chosen in The Jade Isles Map did not complete the Map.
• Fixed a bug where the Wetlands Map Boss was not attacking as they were constantly trying to path to a rock that doesn't exist.
• Fixed a bug where you could be unable to enter the Boss arena in the Razed Fields Map.
• Fixed a bug where the Wetlands, Lofty Summit, Derelict Mansion, and Ornate Chambers Maps sometimes did not allow you to use a portal in the Boss arena after defeating the Boss.
• Fixed an issue where some of the Mighty Silverfist's attacks were not correctly telegraphing that they were unavoidable.
• Fixed a bug where rare monster packs could spawn in invalid locations in the Rugosa and Hidden Grotto Maps.
• Fixed a bug where Skeletal Cobras and Tawhoa Mystic monsters were missing their Monster Categories.
• Fixed a bug where the slowing debuff from the water in Solitary Confinement was not affected by Slow Potency, for reals this time.
• Fixed a bug where the Tawhoan Tower Shield, Golden Targe, Blacksteel Crest Shield and Desert Buckler basetypes did not have any block chance, or grant Raise Shield or Parry for the respective basetype. This change does not apply to existing items.
• Fixed an issue that prevented you from completing The Grand Quest (quest) and from obtaining your first 2 Expedition Skill Points if you had held a Logbook before talking to Dannig and obtaining your rewards.
• Fixed a bug where the travelling merchant in the Khari Crossing sometimes did not come out of hiding after killing the surrounding monsters.
• Fixed a bug where you were unable to store more than 300 Simulacrum Splinters in the Delirium Stash Tab.
• Fixed a bug where Uncut Gems would not be sorted correctly in the Gem Stash.
• Fixed a bug where Unique Items introduced in 0.3.0 could not be stored in the Unique Stash Tab.
• Fixed a bug where the cutscene for entering Endgame from the Interludes was not playing.
• Fixed a bug where Player 2 was unable to interact with The Well of Souls in Couch Co-Op.
• Fixed a bug with UI navigation in Couch Co-Op after interacting with the salvage bench.
• Fixed a bug where you were unable to travel to The Ziggurat Refuge from a waypoint when using a controller.
• Fixed a bug where the game would not always unpause after applying a Vaal Orb to an Essence when using a controller.
• Fixed a bug where the Amanamu's Void debuff was missing a description.
• Fixed a bug where items for sale at the Gambler were sometimes not detailing whether the base type provided Armour, Evasion Rating, or Energy Shield.
• Fixed a bug where you could not filter using negative numbers in the in-game Trade Market.
• Fixed a bug where some players would not have a selected Hideout after logging into a different platform.
• Fixed a bug where the "Show only Available" option in the Cosmetics window did not work until you un-ticked and re-ticked it.
• Fixed a bug where part of the Passive Skill Tree was not visible when using right-panel mode on controller.
• Fixed a bug where Forge Hammer could cause desync in specific circumstances.
• Fixed desync that could occur when placing a totem.
• Fixed desync that could occur with Earthshatter.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur on controller input mode when certain items were placed into the crafting slot of the Essence Stash Tab.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur when equipping the Merit of Service Unique Shield.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur with Tempest Bell in party play.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur with Storm Lance.
• Fixed two other client crashes.
• Fixed two instance crashes.

In the meantime, we'll continue to monitor feedback and bug reports so that we can make additional fixes and adjustments.

We hope you've all been enjoying the new content in Act 4 and the Interludes, as well as the very first league mechanic in Rise of the Abyssals. We cannot thank you all enough for playing and showing your support.

A federal appeals court has ruled President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of membership in a Venezuelan gang

Appeals court rules Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang

^{Nicholas Riccardi (The Independent)}

source

President Claudia Sheinbaum has been described as a "Trump whisperer," but a majority of Mexicans believe that her administration is not doing a good job managing the relationship with the U.S. president, according to the results of a recent poll.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/mexiconewsda…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Poll: Majority of Mexicans think bilateral relationship with US is deteriorating - Mexico News Daily

^{MND Staff (Mexico News Daily)}

Did an AI write this? Because it reads like an AI wrote this.

Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

^{Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)}

A structure like those found on water striders’ legs keeps a robot out of the water.

A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

^{Elizabeth Rayne (Ars Technica)}

During the SCO summit on Monday, Iran also pushed for the organization to play a more active and assertive role in peacebuilding in the region and beyond.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/peoplesdispa…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

A new report documents the wild and likely replicable success of Vienna’s public housing plan.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/truthout.org…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Vienna’s Model Shows the Government Really Can Guarantee Housing for All | Truthout

^{Negin Owliaei (Truthout)}

DHS announced a new program that pays law enforcement agencies that help carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.

Trump Admin to Financially Reward Police Agencies For Working with ICE

^{Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Truthout)}

New poll reveals Americans' economic pessimism, sparking calls for Democrats to embrace populism. Forecasters warn US economy may be on the brink of recession.

As Trump Recession Looms, New WSJ Poll Backs Call for Democrats to Embrace Economic Populism

"It feels like it's on the brink, it's on the precipice of this recession," one economist said this week.

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

Meanwhile, Israel denies the charge and American officials remain silent.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/motherjones.…

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Leading genocide scholars say Israel's war in Gaza fits the definition

^{Mother Jones}

"A child in Gaza shouldn't have to die for a sip of water," said one Palestinian American critic. "Families are starving, fleeing under bombs, with nowhere safe to go. Humanity is failing them."

Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Israel Massacres Gaza Children Fetching Water, Starves 13 More Palestinians to Death

"A child in Gaza shouldn't have to die for a sip of water," said one Palestinian American critic. "Families are starving, fleeing under bombs, with nowhere safe to go. Humanity is failing them."

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

"No Kings is a non-violent movement that continues to rise stronger, and we’re uniting once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people."

No Kings Movement Announces Next Day of Nationwide Actions for Oct 18

^{common-dreams-staff (Common Dreams)}

US support for Israel's assault on Gaza is waning, but some Democratic politicians are out of touch. Military veteran Graham Platner challenges the status quo, calling out the billions in aid to Israel.

The Biggest Applause Line From Graham Platner's Labor Day Speech Was About Ending US Bombs in Gaza

And the second biggest was about naming the enemy which his Senate campaign will seek to target: "the oligarchy."

^{julia-conley (Common Dreams)}

Trump's latest move is an "essential component of martial law,” notes one expert.

Putting military lawyers in charge of immigration courts is problematic—and “unlawful”

^{Mother Jones}

Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.

Archived version: archive.is/20250902200925/404m…

404 Media

2025-09-02 19:10:02

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.

Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data,” the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. “If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets.”

LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site’s owner paid a $50,000 ransom. “Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero,” the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site’s owners several days to cough up the cash. “If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws.”

Most of LunaLock’s threat is standard language for a ransomware attack. What’s new is the explicit threat to give the site’s data—which includes the unique artwork and information of its users—to AI companies. “This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic,” Tammy Harper, a senior threat intelligence researcher at the cyber security company Flare, told 404 Media. “Before this it was kind of an assumption that victim data could end up being shared through AI models. Especially if the groups use it to find leverage and process the data to calculate ransom amounts.”

Harper said that this kind of threat could be effective against artists. “It’s a very sensitive subject for this type of victim (an art marketplace.) LunaLock is definitely using and hoping for the clients and artists of the victim to pressure them into paying the ransom.”
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It’s unclear how LunaLock would get the artistic data to AI companiesOf course, it might be as simple as setting up an independent website full of the data on the open web and waiting for one of the LLMs crawlers to come and devour the information. Or just starting a chat with the companies’ respective chatbots and uploading the images, depending on each company’s policy on how they train their AIs based on user uploads.

As of this writing, Artists&Clients is down and attempts to reach it trigger a Cloudflare error. But users and cyber security accounts are sharing screenshots of the ransomware note on social media. Google also indexed the ransom note and as of writing, it appears in the description of the site when you look it up in the search engine.

Artists&Clients did not respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment.

Megaphone Embeddable Player

^{playlist.megaphone.fm}

Amnesty International released a new investigative report on Tuesday detailing extrajudicial executions of Druze civilians by the Syrian government and affiliated forces in the Suwayda governorate on July 15-16.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/jurist.org/n…

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Rights group investigation reveals government forces executed civilians in southern Syria

Amnesty International released a new investigative report on Tuesday detailing extrajudicial executions of Druze civilians by the Syrian government and affiliated forces in the Suwayda governorate on...

^{Christine Savino | Cornell Law School, US (- JURIST - News)}

“My child should be in a safe, clean place, getting proper treatment. But here I am, on the floor, with no place to sit.”

Archived version: archive.is/20250902233117/drop…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital

^{Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)}

"This is not about drugs, crime, or national security," asserted one expert. "It is about oil that the US would rather not pay for."

Critics Allege White House 'Propaganda' After US Bombs Boat Off Venezuela Coast

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

The UK government introduced new legislation which will require the Justice Secretary and the Lord or Lady Chief Justice to approve Sentencing Council proposed guidelines for courts.

UK sentencing bill to introduce veto powers over sentencing guidelines

The UK government introduced new legislation which will require the Justice Secretary and the Lord or Lady Chief Justice to approve Sentencing Council proposed guidelines for courts. The bill, current...

^{Frank Kelly | JURIST Staff, GB (- JURIST - News)}

Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI

Case file: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/s…

Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up

: Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}

By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.

University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history. 

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35600642

By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.

Peter Link

2025-09-03 03:00:44

University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating

By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.

University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history. 

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-hit-by-data-breach-in-salesloft-drift-supply-chain-attack/

[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]

from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025

“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”

Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital

“My child should be in a safe, clean place, getting proper treatment. But here I am, on the floor, with no place to sit.”

^{Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35598947

[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]

from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025

“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”

Peter Link

2025-09-03 02:36:07

Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital

[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]

from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025

“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”

Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital

“My child should be in a safe, clean place, getting proper treatment. But here I am, on the floor, with no place to sit.”

^{Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)}

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced that a ransomware attack is behind the ongoing two-week service outage.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pennsylvania-ag-office-says-ransomware-attack-behind-recent-outage/

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/palo-alto-networks-data-breach-exposes-customer-info-support-cases/

While the proposed wage increases are appreciable, they fail to make up for past losses and pale in comparison to the increases secured by Air Canada pilots last year.

Air Canada Flight Attendants May Vote Down The Wage Package

While the proposed wage increases are appreciable, they fail to make up for past losses and pale in comparison to what pilots got

^{Adam D.K. King (The Maple)}

You don’t have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore.

This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

^{Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)}

The battle over troops in America's streets is just beginning.

Case file: kenklippenstein.com/api/v1/fil…

Los Angeles Troop Deployment Was Illegal, Judge Says

^{Ken Klippenstein}

A US judge on Tuesday rejected the government's demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case but imposed sweeping requirements to restore competition in online search.

The landmark ruling came after Judge Amit Mehta found in August 2024 that Google illegally maintained monopolies in online search through exclusive distribution agreements worth billions of dollars annually.

Google not required to sell Chrome, federal judge rules in antitrust case

A US judge on Tuesday rejected a government bid to force Google to sell its Chrome browser but ordered sweeping changes to restore competition in online search.

^{FRANCE 24}