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This Cyber Monday marketing email from GameStop might be marginally more clever if they weren’t *actually* hacked this time last year.

"The Kerala High Court has sought responses from Google, the high court administration, and Indian Kanoon in a petition seeking to mask or remove the personal details of two persons from a judgment uploaded online in a.criminal case"

english.mathrubhumi.com/news/k

It's Giving Tuesday and we're asking you to donate what you can to humanitarian relief in Gaza.

Nearly 2 million Gazans have been displaced by the Israeli government’s military response to the horrific Hamas attacks of 10/7. UNRWA (a UN agency) has over 5,000 humanitarian workers on the ground to deliver lifesaving medical assistance. Support for their work is more urgently needed than ever: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundr

Minors’ use of judicial bypass of mandatory parental consent to access abortions in Texas and Florida is substantial, but the percentage of denials is higher and increasing in Florida. Minors who need confidential abortion care may now be forced to seek judicial bypass far from home, and parental involvement laws in states that allow abortion will compound barriers to abortion care.
Read the research: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/366342

The Knight Capital Disaster
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- 6 hours ago | 6 points | 0 comments
- URL: specbranch.com/posts/knight-ca
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
- Summary: On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group experienced a software glitch that led to massive financial losses and the near-bankruptcy of the company. The glitch was caused by a combination of errors in the development and operations processes, including the use of deprecated code and a faulty deployment script. Knight Capital was able to secure rescue financing and continue operations, but the incident served as a cautionary tale for the trading industry and prompted changes in risk management and software development practices.

X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club

Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum Australia's Digital Industry Group (DIGI), the industry association for organizations that invest in online safety, privacy, and cyber security, has decided to withdraw X's place in the voluntary code that oversees efforts to stop the spread of misinformati…
#RSS #theregister #IT
go.theregister.com/feed/www.th

'All of the affected hospitals are owned, or partly owned, by Ardent Health Services, a Tennessee-based company that owns more than two dozen hospitals in at least five states.

'Among the hospitals currently unable to accept ambulances are a 263-bed hospital in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico; a 365-bed hospital in Montclair, New Jersey; and a network of several hospitals in East Texas that serve thousands of patients a year.

'A nurse working at one of the affected New Jersey hospitals told CNN that staff rushed “to print out as much patient information as we could” as it became clear that the hospital was shutting down networks because of the hacking incident.

'“We are doing everything on paper,” said the nurse...

“Everything becomes a lot slower,” the nurse said, referring to the reliance on paper, rather than computers, to track things like lab work for patients. “We drill on that a few times a year, but it still sucks"'.

Despicable. But good on the hospital staff for exercising their BCP for when their lose access to their electronic systems.
edition.cnn.com/2023/11/27/pol

Eyewitness: a UK-based doctor called Prof Ghassan Abu-Sittah spent over 40 days in Gaza since 7th Oct working in many of its hospitals. He says that the destruction of the Gazan health system has been an Israeli military objective.

He also says that he treated many patients with the characteristic awful wounds that are distinctive to the use of white phosphorus, a chemical whose use as a weapon of war is banned under conventions regulating chemical weapons of mass destruction.

web.archive.org/web/2023112804

Air travel is difficult to decarbonise but some progress is being made:
bbc.com/news/business-67548961

"The #NATO Secretary General noted that he recently visited all the Western Balkans countries and met with all regional leaders. His message to them was that NATO 'will do what is necessary' to maintain stability in the region... Stoltenberg urged both #Kosovo and #Serbia to engage in good faith in the EU-facilitated dialogue, adding that both parties must refrain from inflammatory rhetoric and from conducting actions that can further increase regional tensions"

#news

europeanwesternbalkans.com/202

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