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Erudite scholar-artist Kokyo Hatanaka’s deep association with India, spanning almost half a century, has enriched the world of art. 

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Novel SMTP Smuggling Technique Slips Past DMARC, Email Protections

A novel way to abuse a decades-old protocol used to send emails since the beginning of the Internet allows attackers to evade Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) and other email protections, putting organizations and individuals at risk for targeted phishing attacks that appear to come from legitimate sources. Using a technique called “SMTP smuggling,” attackers…

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Sunday, December 3, 2023

Calls grow for crackdown on US gambling (Guardian) The United States is heading into a “quagmire, if not crisis” of gambling addiction among young people, according to counselors and clinicians—prompting calls for a regulatory crackdown. Treatment clinics are grappling with an influx of patients in their teens and early 20s and helplines are reporting record levels of calls. New Jersey was the state that led the charge for the legalization of sports betting and, in 2018, successfully convinced the supreme court to overturn a decades-old federal law that prohibited the state from legalizing sports betting. Requests for support through New Jersey’s helpline more than doubled over the ensuing years, as the legal market ballooned. Hundreds of calls from concerned relatives each year have heightened fears in the state that problem gambling is sweeping through a new generation. Arnie Wexler, a counselor, has not seen anything like this before. “We’re killing the youth of America. It’s gotten crazy. Nobody cares,” he said.

Dearborn’s Arab Americans Endure the Agony of War (NYT) Abdullah Hammoud, the 33-year-old mayor of Dearborn, Mich., feels the painful weight of a war being fought 6,000 miles away. He feels it through anguished stories told as he eats breakfast at AlTayeb Restaurant, as he visits Ronnie Berry’s Halal Meats, and in late-night discussions with his closest friends. He feels it when he sees cars and homes freshly draped with the Palestinian flag. He feels it during normally joyful moments: at his city’s Christmas tree lighting, where the mood felt notably somber and subdued; or on Halloween night, when far fewer kids than usual walked his city’s neighborhoods. “With the level of Islamophobia, parents are worried,” Mr. Hammoud says. “Many people are not in the mood to have a good time.” He pauses for a moment. “Not when bombs are dropping in Gaza.” Dearborn, a suburb of roughly 110,000 people bordering Detroit, has one of the highest percentages of Arab Americans among U.S. cities. Census figures show that it is roughly 54 percent Arab American, a figure experts believe is a significant undercount. This is a community suffering intensely as it beholds the carnage wrought by the war between Israel and Hamas.

Return to office push is 'totally dead,' experts say, as WFH persists (Yahoo News) Nearly four years into the coronavirus pandemic, the society-wide return of white-collar employees to their pre-pandemic offices that some have eagerly awaited and others have long dreaded remains largely unrealized. Restaurants and stadiums are packed, and students are back in school, but corporate executives and even some government leaders are finding it difficult to lure workers back to the office. After office occupancy approached 50% nationwide earlier this year, return-to-office (RTO) rates in many major cities remain stagnant. “The data all shows the RTO push is over,” remote work expert Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University told Yahoo News in an email. “Totally dead.”

Venezuela-Guyana tensions (Foreign Policy) On Sunday, Venezuela will hold an unusual referendum: Voters will say whether they agree with the administration’s stance that a large chunk of neighboring Guyana belongs to Venezuela. Guyana’s current boundaries are internationally recognized, but Venezuela has long claimed the Essequibo region—which makes up roughly two-thirds of Guyana—as its own. Venezuela relaxed its objections in recent decades, as South American neighbors and its ally Cuba backed Guyana’s claim to the land. But the decadesold dispute was revived after highly valuable oil was discovered off Guyana’s coast in 2015. Diplomatic tensions are now running high in South America, which has not had a major interstate war in almost a century.

As George Santos is expelled from Congress, Brazilians hang their heads (Washington Post) Before George Santos became a household name here in Rio de Janeiro, before the scandals and revelations, Victor Cavatti knew of him. He had found the New York Republican’s story inspiring—the son of two working-class Brazilian immigrants rising to the highest echelons of American power. But now, after Santos’s expulsion from the U.S. House of Representatives amid allegations of prolific misconduct and serial fabrication, Cavatti and much of Brazil are expressing a very different sentiment: shame. The New York Republican was said to be the first Brazilian American to reach the U.S. Congress. But he is out of office, disgraced, all within a single year. “It’s all so predictable,” Cavatti said with a sigh. “A son of Brazilians, involved in political scandals.” Despite its extraordinary beauty, loving people and wondrous culture, Brazil often doubts itself. It cares, deeply, what the rest of the world thinks of it. There is a collective inferiority that many Brazilians feel in comparing their nation to industrialized parts of the world. He could have done good, many said. He could have shown the world the best of Brazil. But instead, people said, he reinforced stereotypes they feared the world already had about their country.

A snowstorm brings Munich airport to a standstill and causes travel chaos in central Europe (AP) All flights were grounded at Munich’s airport Saturday after a winter storm dumped snow across southern Germany and parts of Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, affecting travel across the region. After initially announcing a halt in air traffic until noon on Saturday, the airport later announced flights would be canceled until 6 a.m. Sunday. Other airports in the region, including in the Swiss financial capital, Zurich, also announced weather-related delays and cancellations. Trains to and from Munich’s central station were also halted, Germany’s national railway said, advising passengers to delay or reroute their journeys. Downed trees left “many thousands” of people without power across the state of Bavaria, the utility company Bayernwerk told dpa.

A Russian Village Buries a Soldier, and Tries to Make Sense of the War (NYT) A cold wind was blowing across the steppe, but Sapura Kadyrova didn’t see the point in bundling up. She was waiting to greet her son, who was arriving home from the war in a crimson government-issued casket. “So maybe I won’t be warm,” Ms. Kadyrova, 85, moaned. “Then just let me die.” All day long, she and her daughters had been greeting relatives, friends and neighbors who had come to pay their respects to her son, Garipul S. Kadyrov, who was killed near the front line in Klishchiivka in eastern Ukraine. In Russia’s big cities, the war can feel like distant background noise, with the latest iPhones on sale and things looking pretty much the same as before—save for ubiquitous army recruitment posters. While as many as 80 percent of Ukrainians have a close friend or relative who was injured or killed in the war, many Russians in urban centers still feel insulated from it. It is in villages like Ovsyanka, a former collective farm in southwestern Russia, where the pain and loss of the war are felt most profoundly. And as friends and neighbors gathered in Ms. Kadyrova’s small house, preparing food in the kitchen and sharing memories about the deceased, the grief mixed with a yearning to make sense of the loss of another soldier.

Ukraine conducts new attack on Russian railway deep in Siberia (Reuters) Ukraine’s domestic spy agency has detonated explosives on a Russian railway line deep in Siberia, the second attack this week on military supply routes in the area, a Ukrainian source told Reuters on Friday. The incidents appear to show Kyiv’s readiness and ability to conduct sabotage attacks deep inside Russia and disrupt Russian logistics far from the front lines of Moscow’s 21-month-old war in Ukraine. The source, who declined to be identified, said the explosives were detonated as a freight train crossed the Chertov Bridge in Siberia’s Buryatia region, which borders Mongolia and is thousands of kilometres from Ukraine. Baza, a Russian media outlet with security sources, said diesel fuel tanks had ignited on a train using the backup route and that six goods wagons had caught fire. It reported no casualties and said the cause of the explosions was unknown.

Israel intensifies its assault on southern Gaza (AP) Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties. At least 200 Palestinians have been killed since the fighting resumed Friday morning, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, even as the United States urged ally Israel to do everything possible to protect civilians. Many of Israel’s attacks Saturday were focused on the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza, where the military said it had struck more than 50 Hamas targets with airstrikes, tank fire and its navy. The military dropped leaflets the day before warning residents to leave but, as of late Friday, there had been no reports of large numbers of people leaving, according to the United Nations. “There is no place to go,” lamented Emad Hajar, who fled with his wife and three children from the northern town of Beit Lahia a month ago to seek refuge in Khan Younis. “They expelled us from the north, and now they are pushing us to leave the south.”

Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead (AP) Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants. Viewed millions of times online since the war began, these images are deepfakes created using artificial intelligence. If you look closely you can see clues: fingers that curl oddly, or eyes that shimmer with an unnatural light—all telltale signs of digital deception. The outrage the images were created to provoke, however, is all too real. Pictures from the Israel-Hamas war have vividly and painfully illustrated AI’s potential as a propaganda tool, used to create lifelike images of carnage. hat’s made the potential of AI to become another form of weapon starkly apparent, and offered a glimpse of what’s to come during future conflicts, elections and other big events. “It’s going to get worse—a lot worse—before it gets better,” said Jean-Claude Goldenstein, CEO of CREOpoint, a tech company based in San Francisco and Paris that uses AI to assess the validity of online claims.

Climate change threatens African food supply (Washington Post) Scientists, government officials and farmers are reviving neglected crops and boosting agricultural productivity in a race to cushion Africa from growing food shortages exacerbated by climate change. Rising temperatures mean large chunks of Africa are whipsawing between increasingly severe droughts and more frequent and intense cyclones, threatening staple foods for hundreds of millions of people. The International Monetary Fund says each increase of 1 degree Celsius correlates to a 3 percent reduction in agricultural output in developing countries. It forecasts crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa will decline by 5 to 17 percent by 2050, despite a rapidly growing population. Smallholder farmers are already struggling.

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Okay one last post for tonight but wowwwww soooo

it's SO interesting how Jaune was condescending and kind of mean in the most recent episode because when I wrote that narsty narsty NARSTY Jaune/Cinder smutfic after the last episode between decadesolder!Jaune/normal!Cinder I was right about the thrust of the characterisation. Which meant I was ummmm having a lot of interesting thoughts this recent episode

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Senate to take key vote on repealing decades-old Iraq war authorizations#Senate #key #vote #repealing #decadesold #Iraq #war #authorizations

Today, the Senate is scheduled to take a key procedural vote on repealing a pair of decades-old authorizations for the use of military force against Iraq, a move that advocates argue is long overdue to put a check on the White House and assert the role of Congress in declaring war. The bipartisan legislation, championed by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd C. Young (R-Ind.), would repeal the 1991…

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What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time

An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to a set of decadesold equations.

ToKTutor's insight:

may2023 Q5 Worm holes, black holes & temporal short cuts: communicating complex math knowledge about the structure of the universe through visual representations...

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I want period clothing stores...

Why don’t we have stores that sell fifties clothes? Or any other period of clothes for that matter!?

All I want to do is walk don’t the street looking fabulous but society would look at me weird.

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A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages

A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages

With a stunningly simple proof, a researcher has finally cracked the sensitivity conjecture, “one of the most frustrating and embarrassing open problems.” Science Latest

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Meet Steve Stoma: A look at a decades-old reselling business

Meet Steve Stoma: A look at a decades-old reselling business

Few businesses stand the test of time like S&M Family Outlet. This family business in particular has a unique history spanning 65 years! But before internet and eCommerce businesses ran rampant, there were always deals to be found. Joe Stoma, father to Steve Stoma, owned a wholesale store and was buying closeout inventory from small stores going out of business. (Now, we know, liquidating is…

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Massachusetts Could Lift Its Decades-Old Happy Hour Ban – Reason.com

Massachusetts Could Lift Its Decades-Old Happy Hour Ban – Reason.com

A bill now making its way through the Massachusetts legislature could eliminate a longstanding state ban on happy-hour drink specials, one of America’s worst food bans. The move to overturn the ban comes as a recent poll shows that just one in five Massachusetts voters supports keeping the ban in place. The bill, part of a broader package intended to support the recovery of bars and restaurants…

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A Snooping Soccer App, a Decades-Old Bug, and More Security News This Week.

A Snooping Soccer App, a Decades-Old Bug, and More Security News This Week.

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Did you hear? There was a summit this week! A good ol’ fashioned meeting of world powers, in which North Korea promised to denuclearize for at least the seventh time in the last 30 years. In the process, President Donald Trump says he gave North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un his direct phone number, which if true was a terrible idea. Oh, and even if North Korea does actually go through…

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Daughter unravels decades-old mystery of disabled mom's rape#Daughter #unravels #decadesold #mystery #disabled #moms #rape

Magdalena Cruz grew up knowing she owed her very life to a horrid crime. She was born in 1986 to a mom who couldn’t care for her, or for herself. For a decade, Cruz’s mother had been a resident of a state facility for severely disabled people in Rochester, New York. She was nonverbal. She was 30 but had the mental acuity of a 2-year-old, wore diapers and needed constant care. She couldn’t consent…

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Hwaseong murders: Man confesses to decades-old serial...

Hwaseong murders: Man confesses to decades-old serial…

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Last month, police said they believed they had identified the man behind at least three of 10 killings which took place in Hwaseong, a city south of Seoul, between 1986 and 1991.

On Friday, a police official told CNN a man had confessed to nine of the killings. He also confessed to an additional five murders and about 30 sexual assaults. One of the 10 Hwaseong deaths is now believed to…

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Scientists Test Decades-old Vaccines to Protect Against Covid-19

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FILE – In this Dec. 2, 1947 file photo, Charles D. Brown, fills a vial with the BCG tuberculosis vaccine, at a state-operated laboratory in Albany, N.Y. Scientists are dusting off some decades-old vaccines against TB and polio to see if they could provide stopgap protection against COVID-19 until a more precise shot arrives. (AP Photo)

Scientists have said there is not enough evidence to…

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Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes | El Salvador#Salvadoran #environmental #defenders #detained #decadesold #crimes #Salvador

Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes | El Salvador#Salvadoran #environmental #defenders #detained #decadesold #crimes #Salvador

Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were detained on Wednesday in Cabañas in…