Day: April 6, 2023
In the wake of the Nashville school shooting, a country star takes a stand on gun control
Ketch Secor, the frontman of the country band Old Crow Medicine Show, spoke to As It Happens host Nil Köksal about the role he thinks country music can play in bringing gun reform to the United States.
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Over 100K Canadians without power after brutal ice storm – Fox News
Over 100K Canadians without power after brutal ice storm Fox NewsHundreds of thousands in Quebec without power after deadly ice storm CBC News6:30 P.M. UPDATE: Restoration efforts focused on 20 large clusters Yahoo Cana…
Tests show that Twitter’s “stay informed” labels, implemented in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia or China-controlled sites, no longer appear (Semafor)
Semafor:
Tests show that Twitter’s “stay informed” labels, implemented in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia or China-controlled sites, no longer appear — Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the rea…
Cisco Systems Pulls Out of Russia, Destroys Millions of Dollars Worth of Equipment
Cisco Systems has left the Russian market, destroying tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment and components in the process. This is due to the fact that the developer of network equipment has no plans to resume operations in the country. Gagadg…
Bobby Wagner hopes he can retire with Seahawks but taking it a year at a time
Almost 13 months to the day after it appeared his Seahawks career had ended for good, Bobby Wagner was back at the VMAC on Wednesday, looking as if he’d never left.
Inflation is helping drive a boom in secondhand shopping
A growing number of people are buying used clothing, shoes and accessories, propelling the secondhand industry to $177 billion in global sales last year.
Exploitcon and Conferences / Conventions in General
I was thinking about attending one of these and have never been to a cyber-sec conference. I have overheard some people talking about having their phones in Faraday cases to attend. I just want to go to hear some people talking about the things I am in…
US House leader and Taiwan president meet as China protests
Risking China’s anger, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday as a “great friend of America” in a fraught show of US support at a rare high-level, bipartisan meeting on US soil. Speaking carefully to avoid unnece…