Month: September 2021

It’s Friday, here are fat baby bears

Background: Brown Bear mother with cub, Ursos arctos, Katmai Alaska. | Photo by: David Tipling/Universal Images Group via Getty Images I don’t know about you, but pumpkin spice lattes just aren’t cutting it for me as motivation to get excited about the fall. One thing I can rally around: fat baby bears. There’s an adorable twist

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Sources: US DOJ will allow Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to return to China in a deferred prosecution agreement that requires her to admit some wrongdoing (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US DOJ will allow Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to return to China in a deferred prosecution agreement that requires her to admit some wrongdoing  —  Deferred prosecution agreement offers Meng Wanzhou an exit from Canada, where she has been fighting extradition to U.S.

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EU formally accuses Russian government and its state hackers for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation active in some member states since 2017 (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: EU formally accuses Russian government and its state hackers for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation active in some member states since 2017  —  European Union officials have formally accused the Russian government and its state hackers of meddling inside the elections and political systems of several EU states.

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Gig work is precarious no matter the country

Photo by Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The lives of delivery workers in major US cities are dangerous, surprisingly expensive, and largely only possible because of the support app-based laborers offer each other. But a new editorial series from Rest of World shows that the experiences of US-based gig workers aren’t unique — trying

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Cambodia’s prime minister Zoombombs opposition meetings; the country plans to create a “national internet gateway” with a state-appointed operator in February (Bopha Phorn/Rest of World)

Bopha Phorn / Rest of World: Cambodia’s prime minister Zoombombs opposition meetings; the country plans to create a “national internet gateway” with a state-appointed operator in February  —  Hun Sen’s government, which has shown little hesitation in quashing any sign of dissent, is taking control of user activities on the internet.

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Researcher discloses three iOS zero-days, says they were reported to Apple before May 4 and are still exploitable in iOS 15 after Apple failed to fix them (Illusionofchaos/Habr)

Illusionofchaos / Habr: Researcher discloses three iOS zero-days, says they were reported to Apple before May 4 and are still exploitable in iOS 15 after Apple failed to fix them  —  Information Security *Development for iOS *Development of mobile applications *Reverse engineering *

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