Dozens have died and hundreds were reported missing, including 341 foreign tourists. Rescue helicopters have been unable to land in affected areas due to high floodwaters.

Monte is the best. My kids had Dolly's books. She will be missed.

Redworms and black soldier fly larvae are turning organic waste into compost that is better for the soil and improves productivity.

Attorneys say the child waived her rights by agreeing to Roblox’s “Terms of Service” at least 28 times.

I am from Kentucky and just saw this, thought it would be worth sharing on Lemmy. Feel free to crosspost wherever you see fit, it would be nice to at least spread awareness for the situation.

Africa accounts for nearly 80 per cent of cases of the inherited red blood cell disorder but has relied on expensive imported medication.

The Trump administration has designated the UK activist group Palestine Action a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), as part of its efforts to go after what it described as "violent far-left terror networks".

Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems.

Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Palestine Action is now sanctioned in the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and services to or in support of, an act of terrorism", the Department of the Treasury said in a statement.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10951668

A pro-Russian hacker group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that has affected multiple Norwegian government digital services over the past three days.

The cyberattack has been ongoing since Monday, said Are Kvistad, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Digitalization Agency (Digdir), the state body in charge of making Norway’s public services more digital and user-friendly, told The Associated Press.

“It’s the biggest attack against Digdir solutions that we have ever experienced,” Kvistad said.

The denial-of-service attacks meant that hackers pushed massive traffic toward the agency in order to block services, including one that enables citizens to use one login across multiple public services.

However, the Digdir spokesman said that the agency managed to keep the services running “practically all the time.”

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Meanwhile, the UK Government reported that Russia has established a Special Activity Service (SSD) incorporating Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU) Unit 29155, tasked with conducting operations against the West using a hybrid toolkit including sabotage, assassination, and cyberattacks.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10952035

• 37 percent of affected German companies attribute cyber attacks in the last 12 months to a foreign intelligence service, up from 7 percent in 2023
• Of the affected companies, 52% traced ⁠at least one attack to China and 49% to Russia, while 9% attributed ​an attack to Iran
• More than 211 billion euros of damages are caused by data theft, industrial espionage and sabotage

Here is the original report (available only in German).

German companies are increasingly being targeted by cyberattacks that they suspect are linked to foreign intelligence services, a study by digital industry association Bitkom showed on Wednesday.

More ​than one in three companies hit by cyberattacks, or 37%, said they ‌had attributed at least one incident in the past 12 months to a foreign intelligence service. That was up from 28% a year earlier and more than five times the 7% recorded ​in 2023.

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China and Russia were the main suspected sources of such attacks, with ​Iran seen playing a growing role. Of the affected companies, 52% traced ⁠at least one attack to China and 49% to Russia, while 9% attributed ​an attack to Iran. All three countries have denied conducting cyberattacks abroad.

German officials have warned ​in recent weeks of a growing threat from cyber and hybrid attacks.

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"Intelligence agencies make use ​of criminal structures; conversely, criminals are given free rein as long as they choose their targets in ‌line ⁠with political directives," Bitkom President Ralf Wintergerst said.

Annual total damage from data theft, industrial espionage and sabotage amounts to at least €211 billion, said Bitkom, which represents more than 2,200 companies in the digital economy and supports moves to strengthen cybersecurity.

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Dr Julian Morris Morris said he had "reason to suspect that Professor Arday died an unnatural death".

Syria has been on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism since the list was created in 1979, but is now the last of the original parties on the list to be removed (more recently added parties Cuba, Iran and North Korea remain on the list).

This has been a major goal of the Syrian transitional government as that designation impedes investment due to sanctions applied with it and also restricts foreign aid and weapons deals. The article details that Syria has been working with banks such as Mastercard to enable the infrastructure to allow for international payments in Syria.

Another feather in the cap for the Syrian government this week was the announcement by the leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces of “the end of the mission of the Syrian Democratic Forces” and “its dissolution as an independent ​military force” as part of the agreed plan to integrate the forces.

However, challenges recently arose as well. Israeli airstrikes rocked an airbase in northwestern Syria last week under the justification of preventing Turkey from deploying forces to the base. This week the defense minister of Israel, Israel Katz, ascended Israeli-occupied Mount Hermon and proclaimed that Israel “will not move from Mount Hermon and the security zone as long as there are jihadist threats to the State of Israel.” Hikmat al-Hijri, a leader of the faith for Syrian Druze and the head of the National Guard militia that has clashed with the government and de facto controls much of Suwayda, gave a speech thanking Israel and stating that the Druze are an integral part of Israel with the same faith and ideology.