Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting #Abortion Pills in the Mail

The Intercept

Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail

An incident in Mississippi provides a window into a dystopian future where USPS workers and local cops can block people from accessing reproductive...

Middle East crisis live: Israeli army says it is ‘checking possibility’ it killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar #Gaza #Palestine

Volker Türk warns Israel against ‘large-scale forcible transfer’ of civilians out of northern Gaza – as it happened | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

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#COP29 Host Country Agreement Lacks Rights Protections

Human Rights Watch

COP29 Host Country Agreement Lacks Rights Protections

In a case that is disappointing but not surprising, the agreement between the government of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Framework Convention ...

#python question: is there any library allowing to have a precise JSON formatting? Like indentation but also handling some compact data that can be specified? (neither json nor pprint provide that)

Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users #infosec

Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users

The Tor anonymity network issued an emergency patch last week to address a recently-discovered security flaw that was being exploited against its u...

So #Telegram has started a bot providing transparency reports for 2024.

Telegram

Transparency Reports

Get Telegram transparency reports.

The issue is that it is only providing transparency data in the country your account is registered (as far as I can tell, based on the phone number). I have started to aggregate data from multiple countries :

GitHub

GitHub - Te-k/telegram-transparency: Data on Telegram transparency reports

Data on Telegram transparency reports. Contribute to Te-k/telegram-transparency development by creating an account on GitHub.

Now I need you Mastodon: if your country is not listed there and you have a Telegram account, could you please request this data and share a screenshot with me? Retoots are welcome

OpenAI just published a report on influence and cyber-operations they have identified using their infra, interesting to see them follow Meta's path 📄.pdf

Israeli authorities’ shutdown of Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office a crushing blow for press freedom

Amnesty International

Israeli authorities’ shutdown of Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office a crushing blow for press freedom

Responding to the Israeli authorities’ raid on Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office and a court order mandating its closure for 45 days Heba Morayef, A...

"Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across #Lebanon today. "

Human Rights Watch

Lebanon: Exploding Pagers Harmed Hezbollah, Civilians

Thousands of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17, 2024, resulting in at least 12 deaths, including at ...