UPI

Amnesty International reports new escalation of repression in Cuba

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Amnesty International reported what it describes as an escalation of arbitrary detentions, illegal surveillance and harassment targeting relatives of political prisoners and people ...
CSOonline

Critical jsPDF vulnerability enables arbitrary file read in Node.js deployments

The path traversal bug allows attackers to include arbitrary filesystem content in generated PDFs when file paths are not properly validated. A now-fixed critical flaw in the jsPDF library could ...
The New York Times

Will unintended consequences ruin this year’s MVP vote, All-NBA teams?

Will injuries put Victor Wembanyama and Nikola Jokić out of the running for the biggest regular-season awards? Michael Gonzales / NBAE via Getty Images LOS ANGELES — Jaylen Brown made one pull-up jump ...
Jurist

UN urges immediate end to arbitrary detention and intimidation in Guinea-Bissau following release of opposition figures

The UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday released a statement calling upon authorities in Guinea-Bissau to bring an immediate end to arbitrary detention and ...
The Conversation

Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street – often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting

Pelle G. Tracey has received funding from the Google Award for Inclusion Research. Seeing a person huddled under a makeshift roof of tarps or curled up on a warm grate can evoke powerful emotions and ...
The New York Times

$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms

The Trump administration is spending billions of dollars on deals with ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing. By Ana Swanson Reporting from Washington The Trump ...
The Economist

The world is in a new age of variable geometry, says Mark Carney

The international system has been ruptured. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, gridlock at the un, growing American mercantilism and paralysis at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have all contributed to ...
The New Yorker

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing

The surprise and shock that so many people have registered at the photographs of Donald Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the White House—soon to be replaced by his own ostentatious and ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Federal agents detain high school student in Little Village, deploy tear gas in faceoff with protesters

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Bleeping Computer

DrayTek warns of remote code execution bug in Vigor routers

Networking hardware maker DrayTek released an advisory to warn about a security vulnerability in several Vigor router models that could allow remote, unauthenticated actors to execute perform ...