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The US House of Representatives agreed to reauthorize a controversial spying law known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act last Friday without any meaningful reforms, dashing hopes that Congress might finally put a stop to intelligence agencies’ warrantless surveillance of Americans’ emails, text messages and phone calls.

The vote not only reauthorized the act, though; it also vastly expanded the surveillance law enforcement can conduct. In a move that Senator Ron Wyden condemned as “terrifying”, the House also doubled down on a surveillance authority that has been used against American protesters, journalists and political donors in a chilling assault on free speech.

Love to see a wave of repression in favor of apartheid

We only know about this because they were required to report it to the SEC as a publicly traded company. I've had zero communication from them as a customer, and their website and app just says:

We’re experiencing technical issues with our internal support systems.

Our customers’ internet service is up and running and not affected by this issue. In the meantime, please call for assistance.

You mostly can't get through when you call, and when you do finally get a person, they can't access your account or any of their internal systems to do anything for you. This is a CYA statement that they absolutely cannot back up.

From the article linked:

Frontier Communications detected the third party Sunday, April 14. The company’s report states the third party “gained unauthorized access” to some of its information technology environment.

Frontier says in the filing that once they detected the threat, they put their cyber incident response protocols into place in an effort to contain the incident. They say part of this process includes shutting down some of the company’s systems. The filing says that the shutdown resulted in an “operational disruption.”

The company says it launched an investigation into the incident and determined the third party was allegedly a cybercrime group. Frontier’s filing also states that the third party “gained access to, among other information, personally identifiable information.

According to the filing, Frontier says it believes that by Monday, they had contained the incident. They also say they then restored their core information technology environment. As of the filing Monday, Frontier said they were “in the process” of restoring their normal business operations.

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Frontier said in the filing they did not believe the incident will materially impact their financial condition or the results of their operations.

Lmao

I'm not the only customer who lost service around the time of the attack — This reddit thread is full of people in the same situation, all over the country. It hasn't come back, and as I mentioned at the top, they can't do anything for us.

There are a lot of people like me who have no good alternatives (there are literally no other DSL or fiber providers for my address, there are too many trees between me and the WISP towers, satellite latency is a problem, and the cell signal here sucks), but there are a lot of people in that thread talking about switching.

~~The Isr@el funding bill has the tiktok ban language inside of it if I recall correctly.~~ That's in its own "security" package.

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The site fucks copy-and-pasting. So I created my own small paragraphs.

Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, ABC News reports | Reuters

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, ABC News reported late on Thursday, citing a U.S. official, days after Iran launched a drone strike on Israel in response to an attack at the Iranian embassy in Syria. Iran's Fars news agency said an explosion were heard at an airport in the Iranian city of Isafahan but the cause was not immediately known. Several Iranian nuclear sites are located in Isfahan province, including Natanz, centerpiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

Several flights were diverted over Iranian airspace, CNN reported. Over the weekend, Iran launched hundreds of drones, opens new tab and missiles in a retaliatory strike after a suspected Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria. Most of the drones and missiles were downed before reaching Israeli territory.

Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that Israel "must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against our interests" as the U.N. secretary-general warned that the Middle East was in a "moment of maximum peril." Israel had said it was going to retaliate, opens new tab against Iran's April 13 missile and drone attack. Analysts and observers have been raising concerns about the risks of the Israel-Gaza war, opens new tab spreading into the rest of the region.

Israel's assault on Gaza began after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's military offensive has killed over 33,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the local health ministry. Iran-backed groups have declared support for Palestinians, launching attacks from Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.

First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.

China's revolution could be summarized as a war against the landlords. America's revolution will be a war against the Franchise Owners.

$3 billion dollar annual endowment, 62k a year tuition, cannot afford to pay TAs

Boston University Graduate Students are on strike, follow them at https://twitter.com/gradworkersofBU

The girl’s mother and her sister were also murdered in the same attack on Khan Younis.

Reminds me of this photo from 20 years ago.

The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.

We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.