hiroya.uga has added a photo to the pool:
The sunrise that burned into my tired eyes after pulling an all-nighter. The whole office was glowing red.
A game to suit departing Stones, West Ham’s Pablo under scrutiny against Arsenal and Maddison can rouse Spurs
Liverpool have eased one self-inflicted headache by listening to their fans and scrapping plans to raise some ticket prices for the next three seasons. Anfield’s attention can now focus squarely on eradicating another as Arne Slot’s side seek to salvage a desperately poor season with Champions League qualification. Liverpool will secure a top-five finish should they beat Chelsea and Bournemouth fail to win at Fulham. Slot could not have hand-picked a better opponent to potentially complete the job than the shambles that is this Chelsea team, even taking into account his frontline injury-list. The visitors are a collection of individual egos who turn up when they feel like it, which is Wembley and the FA Cup on current evidence. Chelsea have lost seven successive league games only once in their history – from November to December 1952 – but could equal that unwanted record with defeat at Anfield. They have lost their last two away matches by a three-goal margin, conceded at least three times in four of their last five league games, and it would surprise no one if they decide to save themselves for the FA Cup final. Andy Hunter
Liverpool v Chelsea, Saturday 12.30pm (all times BST)
Brighton v Wolves, Saturday 3pm
Fulham v Bournemouth, Saturday 3pm
Sunderland v Manchester United, Saturday 3pm
Continue reading...Criminals are manipulating pictures found on school websites and social media to create sexually explicit images
UK schools should remove pictures of pupils’ faces from their websites and social media accounts because blackmailers are using them to create sexually explicit images, experts have said.
Child safety experts and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) warn that criminals are using AI to manipulate photos of children and then demand cash not to publish them.
Continue reading...Villa thrash Forest to reach Europa League final
‘We didn’t want to leave these games with regrets’
John McGinn said Aston Villa took a giant step towards proving they are not “nearly men” after securing their spot in a first European final since 1982 in front of Prince William, who afterwards joined the players in the dressing room.
Villa’s captain scored twice late on as Villa romped to a 4-0 Europa League semi-final second-leg win over Nottingham Forest to maintain Unai Emery’s hopes of a record fifth title in the competition. Villa will face Freiburg in Istanbul on 20 May.
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John from Brisbane has added a photo to the pool:
The massive expanse of the Glasshouse Mountains, north of Brisbane was once an even more massive shield volcano. Humans really have no comprehension of the billions of years needed to erode it into what we know today, a series of majestic and unusually shaped volcanic plugs surrounded by coastal plain where rich red soil grows pineapples, avos, macadamias and many other fruits and vegetables.
The mountains are also alluring to climbers but always dangerous and every year, sadly, a number lose their lives in pursuit of the adventure. In fact, we lost two very recently.
My wife often "sees" photo opportunities that I miss or dismiss so this is her contribution to Fence Friday, an expansive shot from one of the lookouts in the area.
The tallest mountain in view is Tibrogargan, from some angles looking like a giant Gorilla. It is also quite steep and it is on this one on which the recent life losses occurred.
joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability in question is tagged CVE-2026-31431 and, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), "This Linux Kernel Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise."
The distributions affected are Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Amazon Linux. This could also affect any distribution based on those in the list, which means pretty much every Linux distro that isn't independent. The flaw is found in the Linux kernel cryptographic subsystem's algif_aead module of AF_ALG. The problem is that a particular optimization has led to the kernel reusing the source memory as the destination during cryptographic operations. What this means is that attackers can take advantage of interactions between the AF_ALG socket interface and a splice() system call. Until patches are released, Microsoft is advising that the affected crypto feature should be disabled, or AF_ALG socket creation should be blocked. The vulnerability is also known as "Copy Fail," which has been shared on Slashdot and detailed in a technical report. The vulnerability affects almost every version of the Linux OS and is now being exploited in the wild. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered all civilian federal agencies to patch any affected systems by May 15.
The distributions affected are Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Amazon Linux. This could also affect any distribution based on those in the list, which means pretty much every Linux distro that isn't independent. The flaw is found in the Linux kernel cryptographic subsystem's algif_aead module of AF_ALG. The problem is that a particular optimization has led to the kernel reusing the source memory as the destination during cryptographic operations. What this means is that attackers can take advantage of interactions between the AF_ALG socket interface and a splice() system call. Until patches are released, Microsoft is advising that the affected crypto feature should be disabled, or AF_ALG socket creation should be blocked. The vulnerability is also known as "Copy Fail," which has been shared on Slashdot and detailed in a technical report. The vulnerability affects almost every version of the Linux OS and is now being exploited in the wild. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered all civilian federal agencies to patch any affected systems by May 15.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The videos, the testimonies, and even the bland recital of the facts are almost impossible for Garcia, and for readers, to take in. As intellectually prepared as Garcia was to make meaning of the Pelicot trial, the book's style (first person) and organization (21 short chapters with names like "Anger," "Writing Mazan," and "What Remains of Our Love?") display the emotional challenges the case inevitably presents in regard to women living with men. The most terrifying question of Garcia's book is a simple one: can we, how can we, live with men after the Pelicot trial? [LARB; cw: rape, abuse, horror]
Gisèle Pelicot, previously
Gisèle Pelicot, previously
NEW YORK (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Een Amerikaanse handelsrechtbank heeft donderdag de invoerheffingen van 10 procent van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump op het grootste deel van de invoer naar de Verenigde Staten onwettig verklaard.
Het Amerikaanse Hof voor Internationale Handel in New York stelde een groep kleine bedrijven en meer dan twintig staten in het gelijk die de invoerheffingen hadden aangevochten. Trump stelde de invoerheffing in februari in, vrijwel direct nadat zijn eerdere tarieven door het Hooggerechtshof waren verworpen.
De groep kleine bedrijven had aangevoerd dat de nieuwe tarieven een poging waren om de uitspraak van het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof te omzeilen.
De uitspraak werd met twee tegen één genomen, waarbij één rechter opmerkte dat het voorbarig was om de eisende kleine bedrijven in het gelijk te stellen. De rechters oordeelden echter dat de algemene invoerheffingen niet gerechtvaardigd waren op grond van een wet uit de jaren zeventig waarop Trump zich had gebaseerd.