Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warnsGraham Readfearn (The Guardian)
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti suffers rib fractures after assault in Israeli prisons
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti sustained rib fractures after being beaten in Israeli prisons, the Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday, Anadolu reports.
The Hamas-run office said on Telegram that Barghouti was beaten by Israeli prison guards while being transferred from Ramon Prison in southern Israel to Megiddo Prison in the north in mid-September.
The imprisoned leader lost consciousness and suffered a fracture in four ribs, it added.
Barghouti, 66, a senior leader of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group, is one of the most prominent and popular figures in Palestinian politics.
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This is reall a monumental societal change.
3rd spaces are nearly completely destroyed, and online seems to be the main option for ppl now.
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Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped
..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...
Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped
Microsoft’s October 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 183 flaws, including three exploited zero-days and two 9.9 CVSS bugs.The Hacker News
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Other articles make more clear why that is.
cyberpress.org/windows-agere-m…
Rather than issuing a traditional patch for each vulnerability, Microsoft’s October cumulative update completely removes the ltmdm64.sys driver from affected systems.As a result, all fax modem hardware relying on the Agere Modem driver will cease to function. While mail and messaging over IP have largely supplanted analog modems, some industrial and legacy applications still depend on fax modems.
Organizations must therefore audit their environments for any remaining modem dependencies and either migrate to supported alternatives or implement workarounds where available.
Microsoft’s advisory explicitly recommends that customers eliminate any reliance on the deprecated hardware to avoid service disruptions.
So maybe not all the way back to the original release, but back to the first release that included this specific telephony modem driver, ltmdm64.sys. If I recall correctly, Windows 3.1 brought networking capabilities.
However, another article claims it has only been shipped with every version of Windows since 2006.
thestack.technology/windows-us…
CVE-2025-24990 was credited to a security researcher going by the handle @shitsecure who told The Stack by DM “it’s a driver from 2006, never changed… I think it was historically shipped with everything, although that doesn’t make sense at all.”
Which honestly makes a lot more sense, since the "64" part of the driver name implies it's for 64 bit systems, which were first introduced in 2003.
Some more extraneous info on this driver/hardware:
Thanks for the details!
I wonder how often they clean stuff up like this. That crossed my mind earlier, I’m sure there is a bunch of “dormant” software that could be cleaned out or made optional in some way.
But the making it optional idea is easier said than done. Especially from a standpoint of discoverability and usability.
Right, it was referenced in one of the articles that a bunch of legacy industrial machines likely still use this hardware, so the people using those old machines are probably going to have to go dig up PCI modems from that era without the Agere/Lucent chipset.
I'm sure you're right and there's lots of stuff they've missed like this over the years that they sort of kept on for compatibility but that opens exploits due to how old they are.
The patch is for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Server 2008 up to Server 2025.
Further, there's companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.
It's conceivable that legacy systems are using modern OSes with virtualization running a legacy OS and legacy PCI cards, for example. It's not beyond the realm of possibility.
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I was curious about the "every version ever shipped."
This gets really old school.
After Israeli Withdrawal, Hamas Launches Violent Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza
After Israeli Withdrawal, Hamas Launches Violent Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza — The Wall Street Journal
Firefights and public executions raise concerns about spiral of internecine violence; ‘I could hear gunfire all around’apple.news
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How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A new firm called Show Faith by Works has launched a geofencing campaign targeting Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-"Israel" advertisements, a covert operation exposed in a striking investigation by Nick Cleveland-Stout, a Research Associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, and published by Responsible Statecraft.
The operation appears to be conducted without the awareness or consent of many pastors and congregations, some of whom have expressed alarm over the use of such invasive digital targeting by "Israel".
According to the company’s filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the project aims to “geofence the actual boundaries of every Major (sic) church in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Coloardo (sic) and all Christian Colleges during worship times,” allowing the firm to “track attendees and continue to target [them] with ads” on behalf of "Israel".
How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A pro-"Israel" firm secretly tracked worshippers across US churches and colleges using geofencing technology as part of a $3.2 million propaganda drive.Al Mayadeen English (How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda)
How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A new firm called Show Faith by Works has launched a geofencing campaign targeting Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-"Israel" advertisements, a covert operation exposed in a striking investigation by Nick Cleveland-Stout, a Research Associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, and published by Responsible Statecraft.
The operation appears to be conducted without the awareness or consent of many pastors and congregations, some of whom have expressed alarm over the use of such invasive digital targeting by "Israel".
According to the company’s filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the project aims to “geofence the actual boundaries of every Major (sic) church in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Coloardo (sic) and all Christian Colleges during worship times,” allowing the firm to “track attendees and continue to target [them] with ads” on behalf of "Israel".
How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda
A pro-"Israel" firm secretly tracked worshippers across US churches and colleges using geofencing technology as part of a $3.2 million propaganda drive.Al Mayadeen English (How an Israeli-backed firm spied on US churches to push propaganda)
Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now
Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now
The Trump administration warned it would use the shutdown to shed federal jobs. President Trump said that the cuts were aimed at "Democrat agencies."Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Which Linux distro would you say that fits me best? Do you think the LLM got it right?
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- You want something that just works out of the box.
- Your focus is everyday tasks with some programming.
- You prefer cutting-edge software, but the system itself can be stable.
- You want a graphical installer and easy GUI management.
- You like Cinnamon for a Windows-like UI.
- You’re okay with either pre-installed software or minimal install.
- You don’t mind if the distro itself has a smaller community as long as the parent distro is well-supported.
Distrochooser
The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!distrochooser.de
Where is the "LLM"? Are you talking about the linked questionnaire? Zero mention of LLM.
github.com/distrochooser/distr…
SMH these grifters will call any super basic program "AI".
GitHub - distrochooser/distrochooser: An orientation guide for Linux newbies
An orientation guide for Linux newbies. Contribute to distrochooser/distrochooser development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
...The assessment found that PFNA interferes with human development by causing lower birth weights and, based on animal evidence, likely causes damage to the liver and to male reproductive systems, including reductions in testosterone levels, sperm production and the size of reproductive organs...The EPA told ProPublica the report would be published when it was finalized, though the press office did not answer questions about what still needed to be done or when that would likely happen.
But the report’s final version was “completed and ready to post” in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica. And two scientists familiar with the assessment confirmed the report has been finalized and ready for publication since April...
A draft version of the assessment was made public last year and drew objections from an industry trade group. The final version, which retained the calculations published in the draft report, was completed shortly before the EPA announced its intention in May to rescind and reconsider limits on the amount of PFNA and several other forever chemicals allowed in drinking water. The limits had been set last year by President Joe Biden’s administration.
Darya Minovi, a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, pointed to that pending change as a possible motivation for not publishing the PFNA assessment. “If you’re trying to roll back drinking water standards, you probably don’t want to release information that makes the case for why those standards are necessary,” said Minovi...
...“This is the suppression of information,” said Allen, who co-founded the National PFAS Contamination Coalition. “We have the science, and it shouldn’t be obstructed.”...
EPA Report on Dangers of PFNA, a Forever Chemical, Hangs In Limbo
The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.ProPublica
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TIL about this Fediverse software database
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Kbin the software has died - technically there is still one small instance in Poland that uses it, but all others have ceased, and the software is no longer being maintained under that name - yet the project lives on in its fork Mbin.
Instances that include the kbin word - e.g. kbin.earth - only retain that now as a legacy.
Sadly I don't think anyone has heard from Ernst, the original developer and admin of kbin.social.
App support finally came to Mbin though, see "Interstellar".
A spiritual successor to Kbin's design philosophy that is very much worth checking out is "PieFed", which I am writing to you now using it 😀. Most apps that work with Lemmy also now work with it (except Thunder support still coming "soon~(TM)~" but available only in the beta version for now, not the Play Store one). PieFed is written in Python rather than the obscure Rust language so its pace of development has been extremely rapid in comparison to Lemmy and it now has a feature set well beyond that of either Lemmy or Mbin. If you want to access both the Threadiverse/Lemmy/Mbin communities/magazines as well as Fediverse/Mastodon-style content, Mbin is still your best bet as it was designed for exactly that, but for Threadiverse stuff it offers numerous advantages. Anyway it is so nice to have choices to pick from!😀
Features - PieFed
Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons.PieFed
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I'm a bit worried about Ernest though. Didn't he have a bunch of health issues?
Move over Murdochs, the Ellisons are the new family dynasty shaking up US media
Move over Murdochs, the Ellisons are the new family dynasty shaking up US media
Larry Ellison's relationship with Donald Trump has drawn scrutiny as the tech billionaire and his son strive to become major media moguls.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
To compete with China, the U.S. needs Chinese talent
America can’t win the AI race without Chinese talent - Rest of World
Restrictive visa policies clash with Silicon Valley’s reliance on Chinese researchers, highlighting a critical paradox in America’s AI strategy.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
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Tomahawk missiles for Kiev, Alaska process: key takeaways from Lavrov’s statements
Tomahawk missiles for Kiev, Alaska process: key takeaways from Lavrov’s statements
According to the Russia's top diplomat, the process launched during the Russia-US summit is not yet completeTASS
Chinese tanks could soon strike like fighter jets to kill beyond sight
Chinese tanks could soon strike like fighter jets to kill beyond sight
China’s PLA is moving its ground forces from traditional close-range tank warfare to long-range, beyond-visual-range combat.Kapil Kajal (Interesting Engineering)
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What's a good Google Drive replacement for syncing my Keepass database?
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Others have said it, but SyncThing all the way. Open source, been around for a decade, battle tested, no cloud, full control over everything.
I didn't see this mentioned, but you can also tell KeePass to auto reload the database if the file gets updated elsewhere. Makes it so you can run the same KeePass database on multiple devices with live/realtime updates. I've used this setup instead of vaultwarden/passbolt on several IT teams to keep the important stuff separate from the normal systems. It's not on by default usually, but right in the Basic Settings page under File Management.
I have KeePass+SyncThing on 3 laptops, 2 androids, and a home server. If I add a password to one of my androids while I'm out and about (and I have cell data), next time I sit down at my desk it's already available. Vice versa works, too. If my home server dies, the other devices don't care and keep syncing amongst themselves. I think I've had some version of this setup going since SyncThing released, I can't imagine using anything else.
Do note that since there is no cloud or infrastructure behind it, sync conflicts do happen when a device in the network goes offline for a while. It'll never get rid of files if there's an error syncing, but instead create a second copy with a timestamped filename. If this happens to your password db file, KeePass can then merge the two copies together and sort things out mostly automatically. Over the many years I've been using this, it doesn't happen as often when you're the only person using any of the devices that sync. It can happen a lot when you share the setup with someone else, though.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left | Scott Bessent suggests that Treasury is 'compiling lists' of nonprofit advocacy groups
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in the process of launching a War on Terror-style campaign against progressive…Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
MIT researchers developed a way to make cells detach from surfaces on demand, using electrochemically generated bubbles.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jim Bolger, New Zealand’s 35th Prime Minister, dies, aged 90
Jim Bolger, New Zealand’s 35th Prime Minister, dies, aged 90
Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger has died aged 90. His family said he died peacefully yesterday, surrounded by his nine children, 18 grandchildren and wifeNewstalk ZB (www.newstalkzb.co.nz)
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Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free
Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free
Thanks to Extended Security Updates, you don't have to make the switch to Windows 11 just yet.Katie Teague (Engadget)
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Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.massgrave.dev
Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now
ITHACA, NY—Citing numerous advancements in communication technology over the years, a study released Wednesday by researchers at Cornell University found that voices coming through walkie-talkies should sound normal by now.
“After countless hours of fact-finding and analysis, we’ve concluded that it’s 2025, and the speaker shouldn’t be all crackly anymore,” said lead researcher Jerome Thompson, noting that at a time when humanity was developing quantum computers, it was “pretty messed-up” that voices in two-way radio transceivers still came out tinny and could be difficult to understand.
“They should sound like cell phones, but instead they sound weird and staticky. Any handheld device should sound as though the person is standing right there in the room with you. And honestly, they should’ve sounded like that a long time ago—I mean, phones have sounded good for ages, so why not walkie-talkies?” The study follows a report out earlier this month that concluded people using walkie-talkies shouldn’t have to say “over” at the end of every sentence.
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.
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Episodes Released So Far:
- Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mom move from outright hostility to deep tenderness
- Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human.
- A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
- Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
- Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
- Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
- Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right
Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:
- Guns — Two Traumatized Women Divided by Ideology
- Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
- Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
- Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
- Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
- Race in the U.S. [participants being interviewed now]
Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.
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The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other. In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes.YouTube
is i2p relevant today?
after a year or so hiatus I reinstalled i2p on my debian.
I don't think I'm going to use it much: I enjoyed using it to torrent files and to ask about censorship circumvention, things I now have alternatives to.
why is this network still relevant?
Unlike Tor, I think the heavy use of p2p file sharing on the network adds "cover traffic," making things like correlation attacks harder.
I'm curious what the alternatives to i2p are that you use now?
I wish there were more higher latency anonymous networks (to make correlation attacks harder). katzenpost.network looks interesting, but is just academic right now; all the other stuff in this space is blockchain crap.
This seams contradictory. Isn't communism also supposed to be stateless?
Edit: Oh nvm you mean the socialist transition.
Nation states, power, fiat currencies, religions, borders constitutions and laws are just games we play in our heads. A tally stick doesn't work anymore as a measure of value. Kings are dethroned. Old ideas are replaced with new ones (for better or worse)
We make these thoughts in our heads real, but they dont exist unless we make it so. We actually could wish this all away as though a spell was cast. Magic as you say.
People are to busy trying to make life happen or are to invested in their favorite flavor of boot polish to think of a new way to live our lives unfortunately.
Fine by me. I got a vasectomy. I didn't force a kid to play y'alls reindeer games. Couldn't care less. Back to playing the world's smallest violin in the world's tiniest box.
Israel accuses Hamas of returning wrong body
Israel accuses Hamas of returning wrong body
One of the corpses delivered by Hamas is believed to be of a Palestinian, the Israeli military has saidRT
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🇰🇵 DPRK animated series, produced by SEK Studio
Squirrel and Hedgehog is one of the DPRK’s longest-running animated shows. Airing from 1977 all the way until 2012, it’s extremely well known within the country
For anyone who wants to watch Squirrel and Hedgehog, I’ve found a link, and it even has English subtitles!
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Don't fight it, son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
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