SIgnal noise X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages Signal has recently become a popular organizing tool among government workers. Kevin Purdy – Feb 17, 2025 10:49 AM | 73 Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more X,…

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is now blocking links to "Signal.me," a URL used by the Signal encrypted messaging to share your account info with another person. According to BleepingComputer's tests and other users' reports, attempting to post Signal.me links via public posts, direct…

My mum died on a summer’s morning. When I walked out of the hospital, where I had spent the last several days and nights curled on a small couch next to her bed, I felt like a stray root of some ancient tree that had accidentally broken out of the earth and into foreign air – wholly unprepared for…

In this photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a lactating dairy cow stands in a pen after inoculation against bird flu at the National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Monday, July 29, 2024. U.S. Department of Agriculture/AP The first study on the H5N1 bird…

Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch swears in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as Health and Human Services Secretary as his wife Cheryl Hines holds the Bible in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free…

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago 10 hours ago Brandon DrenonBBC News Getty Images The National Nuclear Security Administration is part of the Department of Energy The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but…

The 26-year-old charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive officer in an ambush outside a Manhattan hotel in December has touted receiving support that has “transcended political, racial and even class divisions” in a rare public statement. “I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for –…

Companies Zoetis Inc Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Wyoming Department of Health said on Friday it has identified its first human case of H5N1 bird flu in the region, making it the third confirmed instance of hospitalization related to the infection in the United States. "The woman is hospitalized in…

Tom Wilkinson, professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Southampton, says there is some truth to this age-old saying. When you get a respiratory viral infection, otherwise known as a cold, your immune system is activated, he explains. Your ability to fight it off depends on how strong…

The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”. A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which…

Record January warmth puzzles climate scientists 6 February 2025 Mark PoyntingClimate and environment researcher Reuters Last month's Los Angeles fires were one of the costliest disasters in US history Last month was the world's warmest January on record raising further questions about the pace of…

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NEW YORK — U.S. health officials on Wednesday urged Americans traveling to Uganda to take precautions because of an Ebola outbreak — and said they are helping Ugandan health officials respond to the threat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention travel alert does not call on travelers to…

Kirk Enstrom Digital Managing Editor New Hampshire resident diagnosed with third case of clade I mpox in United States Health officials say patient diagnosed with illness after traveling to eastern Africa Share Copy Link {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Updated: 3:40 PM EST Feb 7, 2025 Infinite…

Kansas is facing an unprecedented outbreak of tuberculosis, one that has been labeled the largest of its kind on record in the US. According to the Kansas state department of health and environment, as of 24 January, there had been 67 active tuberculosis cases since 2024 and an additional 79 latent…

Introduction A few weeks back I found myself in the Semgrep slack channel trying to find out whether the extensive effort I had put into developing a set of custom security vulnerability detections as part of my work for one of my main clients was about to go out the window. The reason was Semgrep’s…

The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI’s while spending orders of magnitude less money and using older chips is that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data…

Federal Reserve officials decided on Wednesday to hold interest rates steady as uncertainty over Donald Trump’s impact on the US economy looms and inflation remains above the central bank’s target levels. This is the first time Fed policymakers have met since the president, who has made clear he…

Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years. Applications for jobless benefits rose by 6,000 to 223,000 for the week ending January 18, the Labor Department said…

Blog Origins In the last year or two, I have increasingly used the term “CVE farming” in conversations and LinkedIn posts [1]. This has led a few people to ask what it meant and I gave a very cliff notes version of the answer. I started taking notes for this blog a while back expecting for the…

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January 23, 2025 So why is the grave threat of nuclear war virtually absent from our politics? Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email The Doomsday Clock set to 90 seconds to midnight at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 24, 2023. (Patrick Semansky / AP Photo)…

More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU’s electricity in 2024, while coal-burning power plants generated 10%, according to data from climate…

TL;DR: We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of SemgrepCS, in response to its open-source clampdown. Last month, Semgrep announced major changes to its OSS project—strategically timed for a Friday, of course ;) Since 2017, Semgrep has been a cornerstone of the open-source security community, offering a…

A new study shows Millennials are the first [+][-] generation that AI will replace as it puts 38% of Millennial jobs at risk. getty As AI automates more jobs, experts predict that it will replace full-time careers in 2025. Susan Lindeque, CEO of Avestix Group, predicts AI could soon upset the entire…

This wellbeing myth is almost true, says Dr Caroline Apovian, director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston University Medical Centre. “Stress can lead to weight gain,” she says, “but it’s not that stress itself, by any metabolic reason, causes weight gain.” Rather, the…

Dailydave mailing list archives By Date By Thread (the root of the root and the bud of the bud) From: Dave Aitel via Dailydave Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:22:11 -0500 Memories and thoughts are the same thing, someone tried to explain to me recently. You have to think to remember, in other words. This…

Last week, as the Sunset fire was bearing down on her Los Angeles home, Allison Agsten approached a group of television news crews gathering in her neighborhood. Did any of them plan to mention the role of the climate crisis in their reporting? The question was professional as well as personal for…

Fortinet Confirms Exploitation Of ‘Critical’ Vulnerability In FortiOS, FortiProxy HOME ▸ news ▸ security ▸ 2025 ▸ Fortinet Confirms Exploitation Of ‘Critical’ Vulnerability In FortiOS, FortiProxy SecurityJanuary 14, 2025, 1:06 PM EST The confirmation comes after Arctic Wolf researchers said that…

Wildfires that blazed around the world in 2024 helped to drive a record annual leap in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, surprising scientists. The data shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather. The CO2 level at the Mauna Loa observatory in…

The bird flu crisis continues to evolve, and it feels like we’re now getting slightly more urgent updates from the media. There’s several reasons for this shift, one being that we’ve crossed a threshold where official agencies like the CDC can no longer deny we’re facing a serious problem. In many…

Chicago has become a hub for cryptocurrency ATMs used to launder drug proceeds and route money to sophisticated scam artists, according to experts and officials. Bitcoin, the most valuable and well-known crypto asset, got widespread attention more than a decade ago as a tool to buy drugs on…