An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day after the DEF CON security conference concluded in Las Vegas, and was first described on social media accounts that follow publicly available air-to-ground messages, known as ACARS.

According to the "ACARS Drama" account, a message was sent by pilots from the plane stated: "NO INFO AS OF NOW WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PAX THAT WERE AT A CYBER CONFERENCE IN LAS THEY WERE ABLE TO JAM OUR WIFI AND BROADCAST THEIR SIGNAL." A description of the incident posted to Reddit further stated that these passengers created a fake hotspot ("Delta WiFi Fast"), with a phishing landing page "designed to harvest passengers' personal credentials."

This technique, sometimes known as an "evil twin" attack, has been long-known to the IT security community. It involves setting up a fake Wi-Fi network and then capturing login credentials and other data. "One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or supplied by Delta, was present onboard the aircraft for a short time during the flight," said a Delta spokesperson. Delta further noted that the flight's safety was "never in question and no aircraft operating systems were affected," and that no emergency was declared.

Ars notes that the "actual onboard Wi-Fi was disabled for 30 minutes."

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• Becomes first man to win three European 400m titles

• Hudson-Smith: ‘Nobody is going to beat me on this track’

Stand … and deliver. On a balmy night in Birmingham, Matt Hudson-Smith powered past the stand bearing his name at the Alexander Stadium and into history by becoming the first man to win three European Championship 400m titles.

And afterwards, as the adrenaline flooded his body and he posed wearing a crown in front of his own stand, the 31-year-old made it clear just how much it meant. “Nobody is going to beat me on this track,” he said. “This is my home. I have been here since I was nine. I know this track like the back of my hand.

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• Uefa Super Cup: Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 Aston Villa

• Kvaratskhelia 20, Doué 62; Madjo 45

Luis Enrique says it doesn’t matter what sport he is playing – football, tennis, padel or parchis, a board game – he wants to win every game, all the time. In Paris Saint-Germain, he has built a winning machine, the back-to-back Champions League victors maintaining their habit by conquering Aston Villa in an absorbing Super Cup contest in Salzburg. For PSG, after the joy of Munich and Budapest, three months ago, does a three-peat in Madrid in May beckon? They will surely go close.

Aston Villa more than played their part in an enthralling showpiece, Brian Madjo becoming the competition’s youngest scorer after the 17-year-old cancelled out Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s opener. Villa had chances to gain the lead but Désiré Doué was the match-winner, the forward picking his spot after beating Villa’s offside trap. The goal was initially disallowed but, after a VAR review, Omar Artan, the Somali referee handed the game by Uefa after being denied entry to the US to officiate at the World Cup, awarded it after replays showed Matty Cash played Doué onside.

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The gripping case of Russian spy Anna Chapman somehow becomes quite dull in parts of this very male documentary. Thank goodness for the only woman to speak in it – who livens things up ahead of a thrilling ending

In June 2010, Anna Chapman was arrested in New York City as part of a major FBI operation targeting Russian spies. Members of the “illegals programme” had, for decades, ingratiated themselves into American workplaces and communities, all while working for Russia’s foreign intelligence service (SVR). While Chapman was ostensibly in the US to sell real estate to wealthy Russians, she was something of an outlier among the group. The 28-year-old had been in Manhattan for only a year, having spent much of the previous decade in London. There, she had married (and later separated from) a British citizen, Alex Chapman. It was also where she may or may not have been initially recruited as a Russian state asset. Her connections to Britain would, for a while, make Anna Chapman a tabloid mainstay; here we see her ex, Marcus Read, reading an old interview he did with the Mirror, headlined “My crazy six weeks of passion with Russian spy girl Anna Chapman”.

The working title of this two-part documentary was Red Hot Spy: The Anna Chapman Story. Indeed, much is made of how irresistibly alluring and apparently manipulative Chapman was, and the pull of her flame-coloured locks (tabloid infamy also coincided with a dye job). Read met Chapman in Zimbabwe, and she ended up joining him in Brighton for a time, before ditching him at a techno night to embark on a relationship with Alex Chapman. “Here I am, 20-odd years later ,still talking about it,” says Read, perhaps wistful, clearly still incredulous. It is, maybe, the first clue that The Spy Next Door doesn’t contain any big new revelations about Chapman (who has returned to Russia and didn’t want to be involved with the programme), but rather is a slick reworking of old news.

The Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story is on Channel 4

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Former world No 4 reflects on his emotional reaction in Canada and rebuilding after the most difficult period of his career

Those painful images have relentlessly spread to all corners of the internet. Deep in the final set of the first-round match at the Canadian Open against Térence Atmane just over a week ago, 15 months of pent up emotion erupted. Two games from defeat, Draper spent the entire changeover in tears.

This was a devastating and alarming sight. Injuries had already defined so much of Draper’s career, but the uncertainty of trying to recover from a bone bruise injury to his left arm over the past year has been more challenging than anything he has experienced. All of his efforts since last July have been focused on trying to find a way to compete consistently at the highest level again, to no avail.

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Lovely short video about artist Jas Knight, who is a participant in the Met Museum’s Copyist Program:

The Copyist Program offers time and space for artists to develop their own interpretation of an artwork through intimate study in the Museum’s galleries. Copyists have created reinterpretations of original artworks in The Met collection since 1872.

Here’s Knight from the video, in which he is copying Diego Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja:

Almost every artist was a copyist up until the 20th century because as a painter you would go through certain exercises to learn how to paint. You haven’t begun to see a painting until you’ve copied it.

And I especially liked this bit:

Velázquez’s brain is on that canvas. So we’re encountering a person’s brain that doesn’t exist anymore when we’re looking at a painting by them. I’m literally interacting with Velázquez.

In a piece about Harold Fisk’s Mississippi meander maps, I wrote about art as a time machine:

It takes some imagination, but standing before a painting by Hilma af Klint, a sculpture by Bernini, or a cave painting in Chauvet, France draws you back in time in a powerful way: you know you’re standing precisely where those artists stood hundreds or even thousands of years ago, laying paint to surface or chisel to stone. Even experiencing art through prints or photographs leads the mind to consider all the cultural, political, technological, and economic things that were happening when the work was produced. Art is a doorway to past worlds.

You can see Knight’s copy of Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja and compare it with the original. (via the kid should see this)

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Het was nog spannend in Santander: terwijl de maan langzaam voor de helft van de zon was geschoven, zakten zon en maan achter plotseling optrekkende wolken.

Een zonsverduistering is geen Netflix-film die je aanklikt en direct begint te spelen. Dus als het na zevenen maar heel langzaam ietsje begint te schemeren, zijn er mensen op…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on buying specialized gloves that pulse with electrical energy, which make it easier for agents to subdue people, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

A user manual for G.L.O.V.E, or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, sold by a company called Compliant Technologies, provides more specifics on how the gloves are supposed to work and allegedly be used.

“No more than two (one pair or equivalent) of G.L.O.V.E. devices should be applied at one time to a single Subject,” the manual reads. 404 Media found multiple copies of the manual online and archived a version here. 

The manual says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.” It says “Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Devices” or CD3s may “increase the affects [sic] that can cause sudden death including physiological changes.” It then lists increases in blood pressure, respiration, and heart rates; changes in heart rhythm; and increases in adrenaline.

The manual says the gloves must “come in contact with the subject’s skin” and are not effective through clothing or hair. It also says the gloves “can be degraded on individuals and animals that are extremely hairy.”

Another page includes a diagram of the human body and says officers can “grab anywhere on the body” with the gloves “while avoiding the head, face, throat, chest and groin areas.” If the subject resists, though, another page says to deploy the gloves “as necessary.”

It recommends using the gloves for around 15 seconds, but a demonstration video published by Peacekeeper Products, which also sells the device, shows staff using it for only a second or two with people already yelling in pain.

The manual says users should avoid using the G.L.O.V.E device against elderly people, small children, pregnant women, and “the severely handicapped.”

The Associated Press report was based on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) procurement record that said the gloves would be issued specifically to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE focused on deportations. Civil rights advocates expressed alarm at the planned purchase of the technology by an agency that is already widely seen as out of control and using physical force disproportionately.

The CEO of Compliant Technologies Jeff Nikaus published a long Instagram Reel after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “I believe as a nation we are on a precipice,” he said. He said, “we need supernatural activity” and “we need to repent as a nation,” among other explicit Christian Nationalist ideas.

Compliant Technologies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn overwegend met winsten geëindigd. Op de beurzen heerste opluchting over de nieuwste inflatiecijfers voor de Verenigde Staten, die grotendeels in lijn met de verwachting waren. Daarnaast zorgden goede resultaten van grote datacenterbedrijven voor optimisme over de groei van de AI-sector.

De Dow-Jonesindex zakte licht tot 53.770,27 punten. De breed samengestelde S&P 500 won juist 0,3 procent tot 7748,50 punten, wat net geen recordslotstand was. Techbeurs Nasdaq steeg 0,5 procent tot 26.588,49 punten.

Uit cijfers van de Amerikaanse overheid werd duidelijk dat de inflatie in juli uitkwam op 3,4 procent, waarmee de prijsstijging iets minder hevig was dan een maand eerder. Vorige week vielen cijfers over de Amerikaanse arbeidsmarkt tegen. Hierdoor schatten financiële markten de kans nu groter in dat de Federal Reserve de rente in september onveranderd laat, om de banengroei te stimuleren.