After oil refineries and cargo ships, Ukraine is now taking out Russian e-commerce. Wildberries makes an astonishingly obvious target. The retailer has developed into a vast supply channel for Russia's war. With official military logistics beset by shortages, delays, incompetence, and corruption, Russian units at the front are dependent on private deliveries and donations of supplies and equipment, often crowdfunded; countless fighters also order on their own account. Until it was hastily scrubbed from the site over the weekend, Wildberries featured a dedicated catalog category "Everything for the SVO," using the Russian acronym for "special military operation." The catalog included more than 200,000 listings, including not just war-themed coffee mugs but also thousands of battlefield items, such as body armor, tactical helmets, and custom drone components such as drop rigs and tail fins tailored to Russian projectile grenades.
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Teenage girl treated in hospital after Friday’s school shooting has died, police say
The death toll from a school shooting in Thailand rose to nine on Saturday, after police said a 12-year-old girl caught up in Friday’s incident had died.
Police at the Plai Bang Police Station in Nonthaburi Province said the girl, who had been treated at hospital with critical wounds, had died, a day after a 14-year-old boy allegedly shot his grandparents and then killed more people at his school before turning the gun on himself.
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Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it.
Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app — named Veridenz — answers a narrower question, by verifying whether a photo file matches the one that was originally witnessed.
Users do not need a Nostr account because the app creates its own signing identity, keeping private documentation separate from a public Nostr profile.
"The developer does not collect any data from this app," says its page in Apple's iPhone store. The free app's tagline is "Capture. Prove. Verify."
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it.
Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app — named Veridenz — answers a narrower question, by verifying whether a photo file matches the one that was originally witnessed.
Users do not need a Nostr account because the app creates its own signing identity, keeping private documentation separate from a public Nostr profile.
"The developer does not collect any data from this app," says its page in Apple's iPhone store. The free app's tagline is "Capture. Prove. Verify."
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CALI (ANP) - Op de eerste dag na de inauguratie van de Colombiaanse president Abelardo de la Espriella is een politieagent om het leven gekomen bij een aanval op een politiebureau. Daarnaast vielen in de buurt van Cali, waar De la Espriella werd ingezworen, gewonden bij een aanslag met een autobom op een tolstation.
Volgens het leger zaten dissidenten van de ontbonden guerrillagroep FARC achter de aanslag in Cali. Zij hebben het historische vredesakkoord tussen de Colombiaanse regering en FARC uit 2016 verworpen.
Het is nog onduidelijk wie de aanval heeft gepleegd op het politiebureau in het noordelijke Cesar, waarbij drones met explosieven werden ingezet. Op sociale media schreef De la Espriella dat hij de dood van de politiemedewerker diep betreurt en de aanslag niet onbestraft zal blijven.
Tijdens zijn verkiezingscampagne beloofde De la Espriella om hard op te treden tegen drugskartels en gewapende groepen. Hij wil niet alleen de vredesgesprekken met gewapende rebellen beëindigen, maar ook door de Verenigde Staten gesteunde luchtaanvallen op de groeperingen uitvoeren.
