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Alex Cranz / The Verge : An eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple   —  The Touch Bar was too ahead of its time.  This happens occasionally.  We finally reach the point we can make a really cool idea …

Former President Barack Obama called the Israel-Hamas conflict a "moral reckoning for all of us" at an event hosted by his foundation Friday.  Obama spoke at the Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum on Thursday, where he called for a two-state solution and an end to the "occupation," while not clarifying what occupation he meant. "All of this is taking place against the backdrop of decades of failure to achieve a durable peace for both Israelis and Palestinians," the former president told the forum audience. HAMAS TRYING TO SNEAK INJURED FIGHTERS OUT AMONG CIVILIAN EVACUEES: US OFFICIAL He continued, "One that is based on genuine security for Israel, a recognition of its right to exist, and a peace that is based on an end of the occupation and the creation of a viable state and self-determination for the Palestinian people." Palestinian governing authority Hamas launched a terrorist attack against Israel on October 7 that killed over 1,...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Discord plans to switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of 2023 to block attackers from using its CDN for hosting and pushing malware   —  Discord will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to block attackers from using its CDN (content delivery network) for hosting and pushing malware.

Zac Bowden / Windows Central : Microsoft updates its support documentation to say Surface PCs shipped after January 1, 2021 will receive firmware updates for six years, up from four years   —  Surface PCs shipped in 2021 onward are getting two extra years of firmware updates.  —  What you need to know

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., indicated Friday his caucus would defend its progressive members even as pro-Israel outside groups threaten to recruit and back primary opponents against those that have been critical of the U.S.’s Middle Eastern ally. "Outside groups are going to do what outside groups are going to do," Jeffries said at a press conference Friday. "I think House Democrats are going to continue to support each other." Groups like the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have been attacking the progressive "Squad" and other lawmakers who have opposed aid to Israel in its war on terror group Hamas. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FOUNDING MEMBER LEAVES OVER ITS ‘MORALLY BANKRUPT’ RESPONSE TO HAMAS ATTACK Many of those same lawmakers targeted — including Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y.; and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., among others — have emphatically criticized I...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : An interview with Mozilla's Senior Director of Content Carolyn O'Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles for onboarding users, future plans, more   —  Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized …

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch : New details from FTC lawsuit: Amazon made $1.4B through Project Nessie, an algorithmic scheme that raised product prices and held them there if rivals followed   —  The mysterious “Project Nessie,” hinted at in what little was not redacted in the FTC's lawsuit against Amazon …

President candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis does not apologize for his promise to "slit the throats" of bureaucrats in the federal government if elected. The Florida governor was asked by MSNBC’s Willie Geist on Thursday if he regretted using such violent imagery. "We’re going to have all of these deep state people, you know, we are going to start slitting throats on day one," DeSantis said during a Q&A session in August. RON DESANTIS SAYS HE WILL 'START SLITTING THROATS ON DAY ONE' IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH DeSantis told Geist that he had no regrets about the language he used "because you’re, you’re being colorful at some of the stuff but you basically need to bring in serious accountability." He told the host, "Obviously, we’re going to do that within the context of the rule of law in the Constitution. But I want to make very clear to voters that I’m not just going to go up there and be nice about it." The governor has made rooting out...

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake is building momentum in her race to flip the seat currently held by Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., chair of the House Republican Study Committee, announced his endorsement of Lake on Thursday, becoming the latest national figure to back her bid in what is expected to be one of the most closely watched and consequential races of 2024 . "I am proud to endorse Kari Lake for U.S. Senate in Arizona. Kari is exactly who we need in the Senate to secure the border, stand up to Hamas terrorists, rein in reckless spending, and protect the Second Amendment. She is an America First fighter who will shake up Washington D.C. and I look forward to working with her in the Senate," Banks said in a statement to Fox News Digital. RACE TO REPLACE ROMNEY IN SENATE HEATS UP AS ANOTHER REPUBLICAN LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN: ‘STRONG CONSERVATIVE WOMAN’ "I am humbled to have the endorsement of Congressman Jim Banks. ...

President Biden's administration is working on a strategy to combat Islamophobia in the U.S. amid Israel's ongoing war against Hamas. The Biden administration said it has already taken steps to protect Jewish students at college campuses across the country. The White House had hoped to announce similar action for Muslim Americans, but the move was met with skepticism from Muslim leaders, two sources briefed on the matter told The Associated Press. Footage and reports of antisemitic incidents have exploded in the weeks following Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, particularly on college campuses. Dozens of student groups have sought to deny facts regarding the Hamas assault, or even justify the attack entirely. Members of the Muslim community have said there has been a similar spike in Islamophobic incidents across the U.S., though they have been less widely documented. Biden has faced warning from the left wing of his party that his full-throated support for Israel may...

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips says he's "disappointed" with the group of far-left House Democrats known as the "Squad" for their responses to the attack by Hamas earlier this month against Israel. "It’s deeply disappointing," Phillips – a moderate three-term Democrat from Minnesota who last week launched a primary challenge against President Biden – told reporters following a campaign event Tuesday in New Hampshire. Six of the eight members of the "Squad" last week voted against a House resolution condemning the "barbaric" Oct. 7 assault by Hamas on Israel, which was the deadliest attack on the Jewish state in half a century. More than 1,400 Israelis were killed during the sneak attack. Israel responded with relentless airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which, according to authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory, have left more than 8,000 Palestinians dead. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS UPDATES IN THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR ...

Reuters : Tesla wins its first trial in the US over allegations that Autopilot led to a death, in a jury trial in California state court   —  Tesla (TSLA.O) on Tuesday won the first U.S. trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death, as a jury found there was not a manufacturing defect in the system.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday warned that the threat of a terror attack against Americans has been raised to a "whole other level" due to ongoing conflict in the Middle East. "The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level," Wray told lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Hamas launched a deadly terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, leading to a military response from the U.S. ally. It has renewed concern in the U.S. that there could be similar terror attacks inspired by Hamas and other terrorist groups, including by domestic and homegrown terrorists. BIDEN ADMIN PARTNERING WITH COLLEGES TO COMBAT ‘ALARMING RISE’ OF ANTISEMITIC THREATS, INCIDENTS ON CAM PUSES  "We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration, the likes of which we h...

Kylie Robison / Fortune : Source: X is giving employees RSUs at a share price of $45, implying a valuation of $19B; in March 2023, X offered employees stock at a $20B valuation   —  X has a new valuation.  —  X, formerly Twitter, is now valued at $19 billion, based on the company's employee equity compensation plan.

New York Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres spoke out on what he described as "horrifying" antisemitism at Cornell University Sunday night following a series of threats made against the New York school’s Jewish community. Torres, who represents the Bronx in New York City, posted Sunday that the "antisemitism of the Cornell Discussion Forum is horrifying" and called on academia to address antisemitism on campus. "Threatening violence against Jewish students. Dehumanizing Jews as ‘rats’ and ‘excrement’ to be ‘eliminated.’ Advocating for the genocidal destruction of both the Jewish people and the Jewish State." CORNELL UNIVERSITY JEWISH COMMUNITY THREATENED IN ONLINE POSTS; POLICE, FBI INVESTIGATE "The academic establishment can no longer turn a blind eye to the deepening rot of antisemitism on American college campuses," the Bronx Democrat continued. In a second post, Torres commended Cornell University president Martha Pollack "for issuing a...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught on video running over a Chinese child while playing a pickup basketball game during his trip to the country. The short clip, which was shared by RNC Research, an arm of the Republican National Committee, features the California governor showing off his ball handling skills before making a move toward the basket and running right through one of the children attempting to defend him. Newsom and the young boy can be seen tumbling to the ground, with the governor wrapping him in a bear hug and playfully patting his back as they get up. NEWSOM'S CHINA TRIP REIGNITES RUMBLINGS OF A 'SHADOW CAMPAIGN' AS CRISES MULTIPLY ON BIDEN'S WATCH A spokesperson for Newsom's office told Fox News Digital the incident happened while the governor was at Yuying School, a public school in Beijing, where he visited to "see farm-to-school and other agricultural science programs in China." The mishap happened during Newsom's week-lo...

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal : ChatGPT Plus users report an “All Tools” feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs have been added, potentially sidelining 3rd-party ChatGPT plugins   —  OpenAI to release updated version of ChatGPT that gives users access all GPT-4 tools - including browsing and DALL

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch : Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism”   —  X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform's crowd-sourced fact-checking system …

The Citizen Lab : Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices   —  Table of Contents  —  2. Geolocation Attacks Against Telecommunications Networks  —  4. Incentives Enabling Geolocation Attacks