Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian home town after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like many others stuck in camps, he found his home uninhabitable. “We were unbelievably happy when the regime fell,” the 40-year-old said from his small, concrete-block house in Atme displacement camp, one of the largest and most crowded in the Idlib …
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A recent software update meant to stabilize battery performance on the Pixel 4a has had an unexpected side effect: Some Pixel 4a owners are reporting that their phones can now barely hold a charge. There’s a particularly egregious example on Reddit, where a user reported that their phone is down from seven hours of screen time on a single charge …
Read More »Senator Lummis claims FDIC destroyed Operation Chokepoint 2.0 docs
Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis sent a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) claiming that whistleblowers informed her that the agency allegedly destroyed documents related to Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Lummis instructed the government agency to cease the destruction of documents and preserve all records related to “digital asset activities,” including the supervision of Signature Bank and the liquidation of …
Read More »Russian ISP confirms Ukrainian hackers “destroyed” its network
Ukrainian hacktivists, part of the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance group, announced on Tuesday they had breached Russian internet service provider Nodex’s network and wiped hacked systems after stealing sensitive documents. “The Russian internet provider Nodex in St. Petersburg was completely looted and wiped. Data exfiltrated, while the empty equipment without backups was left to them,” the Ukrainian hacktivists announced yesterday on …
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No one wants to end a seven-and-a-half-year run at a major Hollywood studio with an all-timer dud… but, unfortunately, Sony Pictures put out Kraven the Hunter just a few short weeks before CEO Tony Vinciquerra’s last day on the job. The executive spoke frankly about the flop in an illuminating exit interview with the LA Times ahead of his Jan. …
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