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20.12.2024
Elon Musk Is Becoming A One-Man Rogue State - It’s Time We Reined Him In
Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state. His intentions are self-serving and nefarious, and his nation-state level resources allow him to flout the law with impunity. To put it into context, if dollars were metres, Musk’s money would be enough to take him to Mars and back, while a mere millionaire could only make a round trip from Paris to Amsterdam.
The sheer immorality of any one person possessing so much wealth is obvious to most people with basic amounts of empathy. But when it comes to Musk and the other 14 people worth more than $100bn, the morality of it is almost a secondary concern. Their individual wealth is a society-distorting threat to democracy in the same way that economics has always recognised monopolies to be dangerous to a functional market.
19.12.2024
Rootless Install Kali Linux NetHunter On Your Phone In 8 Minutes
It's easy to install Kali Linux on your Android phone without rooting it. This is a rootless install that allows you to run Kali NetHunter as an app on your phone - I'll show you how to do this in 8 minutes. In this video we are using Android 15, but you can also install Kali Nethunter on previous versions of Android.
18.12.2024
How Facebook Restricted News In Palestinian Territories
Facebook has severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, according to BBC research.
In a comprehensive analysis of Facebook data, we found that newsrooms in the Palestinian territories - in Gaza and the West Bank - had suffered a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
The BBC has also seen leaked documents showing that Instagram - another Meta-owned platform - increased its moderation of Palestinian user comments after October 2023.
Meta - the owner of Facebook - says that any implication that it deliberately suppressed particular voices is "unequivocally false".
Since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war, just a few outside reporters have been allowed to enter the Palestinian coastal territory of Gaza from the outside, and they were only able to do so escorted by the Israeli army.
Social media has filled the gap for those wanting to hear more voices from inside Gaza. Facebook pages for news outlets such as Palestine TV, Wafa news agency and Palestinian Al-Watan News - which operate out of the West Bank territory - became a vital source of updates for many around the world.
17.12.2024
How To Set Up A Powerful Home VPN With
Tailscale
If you're running services in your home, whether a media server
like Plex or fully fledged network-attached storage (NAS), there
inevitably comes a time when you want to access these services away from
home. But exposing services to the internet can be dangerous - and it
isn't something we recommend. By making your services accessible to the
internet, you open a vast attack surface that can leave your whole home
network exposed.
You could use a VPN, but these often need to be hosted either on your
network or on your router (if it supports this), and this can present
its own complexities. VPNs also lack some features, like easy access
control or internal DNS, which allows you to translate your local IPs
(such as 192.168.1.20) to domain names (like plex.xda-developers.com).
This is where Tailscale comes in.
Tailscale is an SaaS product that scales from individual users to entire
enterprises, and it's based on the Wireguard VPN protocol. Instead of
running a single VPN server that acts as an entry and exit point for
your networks, Tailscale creates a decentralized mesh network known as a
tailnet. This tailnet is coordinated by a central control server, hosted
by Tailscale, which is responsible for peer discovery within a tailnet
(such as sharing IP addresses and public keys).
This decentralized mesh network allows your devices to effectively exist
on their own private VPN, whether they're in your home or not. This
means your phone, laptop, and home server can all easily connect to each
other without having to run a dedicated VPN server in your home.
16.12.2024
Why Is Israel Shutting Down Its Embassy In Ireland?
Ireland, which has recognised the State of Palestine, says it stands for human rights and international law.
Israel is shutting down its embassy in the Republic of Ireland, accusing the government in Dublin of pursuing "anti-Israel" policies.
Dublin has strongly opposed the war on Gaza and recognised the State of Palestine.
But the Irish government has rejected Israel’s accusations and said that it stands for human rights and international law.
So, what’s behind Israel’s move, and why now?
15.12.2024
Israel’s Plan To Conquer The Middle East Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes In Syria
Moments after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government, Israel immediately began executing its expansionist plans in Syria. Israel has invaded beyond Syria’s Golan Heights, and US-Israeli airstrikes have destroyed Syria’s military assets. Will Syria’s collapse pave the way for Israel’s “Greater Israel” project and broader turmoil across the Middle East? Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss.
14.12.2024
Canadian Lawmaker Slams Trump's 'Idiotic Behaviour' After Tariff Threats
A Canadian lawmaker who ripped Donald Trump in a speech on the floor of the Canadian House of Commons doubled down on his criticism Friday following the president-elect’s attacks and tariff threats toward the country.
Charlie Angus, a member of the Canadian Parliament, told Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network that his response was a "really simple" matter of "standing up and saying no."
"We’re going to have tough negotiations, fair play. But this kind of dismissive, idiotic behaviour? I mean, he’s a juvenile," Angus said.
His comments arrive after Trump, who has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, has blamed both countries for migrants and fentanyl "pouring" into the states.
13.12.2024
Scientists Call For Halt On ‘Mirror Life’ Microbe Research
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.
The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become established in the environment and slip past the immune defences of natural organisms, putting humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections.
Although a viable mirror microbe would probably take at least a decade to build, a new risk assessment raised such serious concerns about the organisms that the 38-strong group urged scientists to stop work towards the goal and asked funders to make clear they will no longer support the research.
12.12.2024
A Deadly Olive Harvest Season Ends In The West Bank
Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.
The Palestinian village of Faqqu’a, situated at the northern tip of the occupied West Bank, is encircled by Israel’s separation barrier from three sides. As such, for the past two decades since the barrier was built, residents of the village have been required to obtain approval from the Israeli military before they can access over 4,000 dunams of their agricultural land (nearly 1,000 acres).
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