Nearly half a million undocumented Afghan nationals leave Iran

The deputy governor of Iran’s Khorasan Razavi Province, bordering Afghanistan, has said approximately 490,000 undocumented Afghan nationals have left Iran voluntarily through the Dogharoun border crossing over the past 100 days.

Android May Soon Warn You About Fake Cell Towers

Plus: Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump campaign emails, Chinese hackers still in US telecoms networks, and an abusive deepfake website plans an expansion.

Iranian MP warns Israel of ‘end of regime’ if further attacks occur

Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a senior member of Iran’s Parliament and the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has warned that any renewed military aggression by Israel against Iran would mark the “end of the illegitimate and criminal Zionist regim…

Tesla Files Expose the Fraud

The buried lede is that Tesla actively suppressed or destroyed evidence that would solve thousands of cases against them. Is Tesla’s autopilot really as advanced as he says? The Tesla Files suggest otherwise. They contain more than 2,400 customer compl…

Critical Sudo bugs expose major Linux distros to local Root exploits

Critical Sudo flaws let local users gain root access on Linux systems, the vulnerabilities affect major Linux distributions. Cybersecurity researchers disclosed two vulnerabilities in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Local attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to escalate privileges to root on affected systems. Sudo (short for “superuser do”) is a […]

Superman Was a Socialist

From the BBC comes an assessment of the original and real American Superman. “…it blew my mind when I saw it. He’s essentially a violent socialist.” The earliest issues of Action Comics bear out this assessment. When there are w…

Trump Calls for Denaturalizarion of Himself

There was a Supreme Court ruling in the 1960s that seems especially relevant lately. In the ruling, Black wrote: “The very nature of our free government makes it completely incongruous to have a rule of law under which a group of citizens temporarily i…