Day: February 19, 2024
Bridal Gown Tailors Turn To Making Diapers In War-Hit Gaza
Two stylised images of women wearing glamorous wedding dresses adorn the front of a tailoring workshop in Rafah, but the workers inside have switched to making diapers, one of the many necessities that have become impossible to find in wartime Gaza.
Optimism on Ukraine conflict was ‘premature’ or ‘delusional’ – NYT
Anxiety has risen among Ukraine’s Western backers as US aid remains in doubt and Russia makes battlefield gains, NYT says
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BBC chief says he is pleased with licence fee deal as TV rivals face ad downturn
Tim Davie says six-year agreement insulates corporation from volatility in the marketThe director general of the BBC has told MPs he is pleased with the new licence fee settlement, in which the government reneged on an agreement and cut the planned ann…
US To Give GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Boost Domestic Chip Production
The US government is awarding $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to expand semiconductor production, the Biden administration said on Monday, in a bid to strengthen domestic supply chains after the COVID pandemic exposed weaknesses.
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Is My Laptop Used to Hack Political Parties?
So basically, I was working on my laptop with only Microsoft Edge open, inside which I had ‘Microsoft Power Apps’ running. Suddenly, I started hearing a conversation in another language. At first, I thought it might be a video playing or some sort of movie. The first thing I did was check if the sound was coming from my laptop by adjusting the volume, and indeed, it was.
Then, I began investigating where the sound was coming from. There were no other applications open on my laptop besides Edge and Power Apps. I checked the hidden icons, but there was nothing there. I even opened the Task Manager, but didn’t find anything suspicious. Next, I opened the volume mixer to see if I could disable the sound for specific apps. When I opened it, I found Edge, so I disabled the sound for it, but to my surprise, the sound persisted.
It sounded like a conversation, with background noise of vehicles and people talking. I tried everything I could think of. Eventually, I resorted to using Google Translator to try to understand what they were saying. It seemed to be a political conversation, with phrases like ‘we are coming to the parliament,’ but it wasn’t very clear.
Now, I’m really curious to understand what’s going on. Could my computer be used to hack this person or something?.
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Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users — Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge brows…