Month: April 2022

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,583 new cases of the coronavirus since Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 2,865,825 as of Tuesday, April 26. Officials reported four more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 31,941 deaths since tracking began. There two more hospitalizations reported since Monday, bringing the
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Bad actors continuously evolve their tactics and are becoming more sophisticated. Within the past couple of years, we’ve seen supply chain attacks that quickly create widespread damage throughout entire industries. But the attackers aren’t just focusing their efforts on supply chains. For example, businesses are becoming increasingly more reliant on SaaS apps and the cloud
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The pinned tweet on Juniper’s account is “it’s incredibly easy to create fake news it’s actually ridiculous lol.” But that hasn’t stopped right-wing media outlets from frothing at the mouth over her tweets, most recently a fake news headline indicating that Snickers was set to remove the beloved “dick vein” from its eponymous candy bars.
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If you follow Kelly Jensen’s weekly Censorship News Roundup, you’ll likely recognize the Llano County library board. They’ve been mentioned in several roundups for “auditing” the library of controversial books, removing In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak from the shelves among other titles, closing their library board meetings to the public, and firing the
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A state auditor’s report released on Tuesday, April 26, revealed that five California law enforcement agencies, including the San Bernardino Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, are not adequately guarding against racially and ethnically biased conduct. In one glaring example, state auditors detailed in the 124-page report that San Bernardino police failed to
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A defiant Sheriff Alex Villanueva today used a news conference to blast a variety of his opponents both political and perceived, including election challenger Eli Vera, county Inspector General Max Huntsman and Los Angeles Times reporter Alene Tchekmedyian, who broke an explosive story of an altercation involving the handcuffed inmate. Villanueva alleged today that the
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A “logical flaw” has been disclosed in NPM, the default package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment, that enables malicious actors to pass off rogue libraries as legitimate and trick unsuspecting developers into installing them. The supply chain threat has been dubbed “Package Planting” by researchers from cloud security firm Aqua. Following responsible disclosure
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iQoo Z6 Pro 5G and iQoo Z6 4G will be launched in India later today. The company’s upcoming midrange smartphones will feature 6nm Snapdragon chipsets under the hood, sport AMOLED displays, and offer fast charging support. The handsets are the latest addition to the company’s iQoo Z6 lineup, following the debut of the iQoo Z6
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