Brazil’s Lula Intensifies Diplomatic Push for Peace in Ukraine
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is intensifying a campaign to mediate an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine as he seeks to reinsert Brazil in the global political stage.
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China Issues Peace Proposal for War in Ukraine, as the Conflict Enters Its Second Year
The 12-point plan issued by the Foreign Ministry in Beijing Friday called for ending hostilities, protecting nuclear plants, and eliminating sanctions.
How Russian Media Spent a Year Selling the War
On Russian television, confusing viewers is the ultimate goal: “When you don’t trust anything, you don’t act.”
In Tech War with China, the U.S. Is Finding Friends
America’s greatest competitive advantage is that it has a lot of close friends
How Seattle Became the First American City to Ban Caste Discrimination
Discrimination against Dalits, the lowest stratum of a hierarchical system in India, is rampant to this day.
A Plausible Endgame to the War in Ukraine
Most wars end badly. There is no reason to think that this one will be any different.
Why Nigeria’s Election Is a Key Test for Democracy in 2023
Africa’s most populous country heads to the polls Feb. 25 in what may be its most competitive, free, and fair vote yet.
Escaping well-configured VSCode extensions (for profit)
By Vasco Franco In part one of this two-part series, we escaped Webviews in real-world misconfigured VSCode extensions. But can we still escape extensions if they are well-configured? In this post, we’ll demonstrate how I bypassed a Webview’s localResourceRoots by exploiting small URL parsing differences between the browser—i.e., the Electron-created Chromium instance where VSCode and […]
Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine
The Aspen Institute has published a good analysis of the successes, failures, and absences of cyberattacks as part of the current war in Ukraine: “The Cyber Defense Assistance Imperative Lessons from Ukraine.”
Its conclusion:
Cyber defense assistance in Ukraine is working. The Ukrainian government and Ukrainian critical infrastructure organizations have better defended themselves and achieved higher levels of resiliency due to the efforts of CDAC and many others. But this is not the end of the road—the ability to provide cyber defense assistance will be important in the future. As a result, it is timely to assess how to provide organized, effective cyber defense assistance to safeguard the post-war order from potential aggressors…
Death Toll Rises in China Coal Mine Collapse
The death toll from the collapse of a coal mine in northern China has risen to four, with 49 people still missing