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The FBI, working with other countries, has disrupted a Russian hacking operation that penetrated more than 1,000 home and small business Internet routers in the United States and around the world, the Justice Department announced Thursday.Russian intelligence, working with cybercriminals, created a botnet, or network of private computers infected with malware, to spy on military and security agencies and private companies in countries such as the United States.Using a court order, the FBI secretly copied and deleted stolen data and malware from hacked routers. That stopped Russia from being able to use the routers without affecting their operation, officials said.…
The national organization that certifies lactation consultants is investigating whether a counselor in Boise, Idaho, improperly promoted an unproven procedure to new mothers struggling to breastfeed, according to a letter reviewed by The New York Times.Lactation consultant Melanie Henstrom appeared in a Times investigation looking at the boom in “tongue-tying” procedures, which are becoming increasingly popular even though there is little evidence that the surgeries help babies breastfeed.Ms. Henstrom is part of a thriving industry of lactation consultants and dentists who aggressively market the procedures, even for babies with no signs of tongue-tie and despite the small risk of serious…
When Marisa Coulson, her husband and daughter moved to Majorca from New York in 2019, she packed her collection of designer hotel items, including a sweatshirt from the Sunset Beach Hotel on Shelter Island. a hat from Dunmore in Harbor Island, Bahamas. and an “ancient” sweater fraying at the seams from the Chateau Marmont, a West Hollywood hotel known for celebrity and scandal.Hotel merchandise “is kind of if-you-know-you-know,” he said.”When you see someone else wearing something from a place that’s special to you, it’s like you’re in the same club,” said Ms Coulson, 44. “We both love the same thing…
For the second straight day, mourners walked purposefully along Moscow’s snowy Ring Garden on Saturday carrying bouquets to place at one of the makeshift memorials to Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian dissident who perished in a prison colony the day before. The flowers, wrapped in paper to protect them from the freezing wind, were not only a symbol of mourning. They also served as a form of protest in a country where even the mildest dissent can risk detention. And people who laid flowers at the Wall of Sorrow, a memorial to victims of Stalin-era political persecution, shared the belief…
But race remained a highly charged topic at Yale, which had an often contentious relationship with the local Black community. And the university’s record has been thrust into the national spotlight by the debate over the renaming of Calhoun College, an undergraduate residential facility named after John C. Calhoun, the antebellum South Carolina senator and architect of southern secession. (In 2017, it was renamed in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist turned rear admiral in the United States Navy.)But Blight, a leading Civil War scholar and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Frederick Douglass, said he…
Big deals await on the tarmac as Wall Street and the business world anticipate how the presidential election will change antitrust enforcement.President Biden has taken an aggressive approach to policing deals that some have called excessive and others have hailed as a necessary return to the control of power exercised by big business. Negotiators say they are holding back some deals in the hope of a more lenient approach in the next administration.Doha Mekki is on the ground and executing the strategy. She worked at the Justice Department under three administrations: as a solicitor under the Obama presidency, in the…
Listen and Follow “Hard Fork”Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeA year ago, a chatbot tried to break up Kevin Roose’s marriage. Since then, chatbots have not been the same. We’ll tell you how. Next, we’ll talk about the latest ways the world is adapting to artificial intelligence. And finally, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, will discuss his company’s “answer engine,” a challenger to Google’s search engine that could reshape the web as we know it.Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rouse and Casey Newtonand produced by Davis Land and Rachel Conn. He edits the show Jen Poyant. Engineering from…
Two daily 45-minute workouts. A gallon of water. 10 pages of a non-fiction book. A diet. No cheat meals or alcohol. For 75 days.And if you mess up, you have to start over.Does it sound like a lot? Supposedly. The program, called 75 Hard, is meant to build mental toughness. Some say the stiffness is what makes it great, and others say it makes it problematic.Since it was created in 2019, 75 Hard has developed somewhat of a cult following, with pros posting daily progress photos and videos that sometimes garner millions of views on TikTok and Instagram. One of…
But what a day this cruelty brought. The feathered flakes had been falling for the past 16 hours, sweeping away every hound within a 100 mile radius. Given how remote this place is, that means maybe 300 skiers and snowboarders. The forest echoed with the faces and voices of my men as they bounced through some of the best snow we had experienced in our 150 years of collective skiing. Without air, the snow crystals had piled up along the hardwood edges in lines as thin as a haiku. Indeed, Hokkaido, Japan, may be the only other place I’ve skied…
Ukraine ordered a full withdrawal from the ruined town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine before dawn on Saturday, surrendering a city that had been a military stronghold for most of a decade in the face of withering Russian shelling and relentless attacks.”Based on the operational situation around Avdiivka, in order to avoid encirclement and preserve the lives and health of the soldiers, I decided to withdraw our units from the city and proceed to the defense on more favorable lines,” General Oleksandr Syrsky , Ukraine’s top army commander, said in a statement issued at night. The fall of Avdiivka, a…