Sprengstoffanschläge: Internationale Bande von Geldautomatensprengern zerschlagen

Strafverfolgungsbehörden haben mutmaßliche Bandenmitglieder festgenommen, die für Sprengstoffanschläge auf Geldautomaten verantwortlich sein sollen. (Geldautomat, Wirtschaft)

Strafverfolgungsbehörden haben mutmaßliche Bandenmitglieder festgenommen, die für Sprengstoffanschläge auf Geldautomaten verantwortlich sein sollen. (Geldautomat, Wirtschaft)

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Routinetätigkeiten effizient automatisieren: Drei umfassende Trainings der Golem Karrierewelt vermitteln den Einstieg in die Robotic Process Automation mit Python und Microsoft Power Automate. (Golem Karrierewelt, Python)

Routinetätigkeiten effizient automatisieren: Drei umfassende Trainings der Golem Karrierewelt vermitteln den Einstieg in die Robotic Process Automation mit Python und Microsoft Power Automate. (Golem Karrierewelt, Python)

US authorities take down operation accused of 35,000 DDoSes over 14 months

Hospitals, government agencies, and a large roster of tech companies all targeted.

Federal authorities have charged two Sudanese nationals with running an operation that performed tens of thousands of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against some of the world’s biggest technology companies, as well as critical infrastructure and government agencies.

The service, branded as Anonymous Sudan, directed powerful and sustained DDoSes against Big Tech companies, including Microsoft, OpenAI, Riot Games, PayPal, Steam, Hulu, Netflix, Reddit, GitHub, and Cloudflare. Other targets included CNN.com, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the US departments of Justice, Defense and State, the FBI, and government websites for the state of Alabama. Other attacks targeted sites or servers located in Europe.

Two brothers, Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, were both charged with one count of conspiracy to damage protected computers. Ahmed Salah was also charged with three counts of damaging protected computers. Among the allegations is that one of the brothers attempted to “knowingly and recklessly cause death.” If convicted on all charges, Ahmed Salah would face a maximum of life in federal prison, and Alaa Salah would face a maximum of five years in federal prison.

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DNA confirms these 19th century lions ate humans

“Tsavo Man-Eaters” killed dozens of people in late 1890s, including Kenya-Uganda Railway workers.

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.  A team of scientists has now identified exactly what kinds of prey the so-called "Tsavo Man-Eaters" fed upon, based on DNA analysis of hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent paper published in the journal Current Biology. They found evidence of various species the lions had consumed, including humans.

The British began construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in March 1898, with Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson leading the project. But mere days after Patterson arrived on site, workers started disappearing or being killed. The culprits: two maneless male lions, so emboldened that they often dragged workers from their tents at night to eat them. At their peak, they were killing workers almost daily—including an attack on the district officer, who narrowly escaped with claw lacerations on his back. (His assistant, however, was killed.)

Patterson finally managed to shoot and kill one of the lions on December 9 and the second 20 days later. The lion pelts decorated Patterson's home as rugs for 25 years before being sold to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History in 1924. The skins were restored and used to reconstruct the lions, which are now on permanent display at the museum, along with their skulls.

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X’s depressing ad revenue helps Musk avoid EU’s strictest antitrust law

X invoked tanking ad revenue to remove threat of DMA gatekeeper designation.

Following an investigation, Elon Musk's X has won its fight to avoid gatekeeper status under the European Union's strict competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

On Wednesday, the European Commission (EC) announced that "X does indeed not qualify as a gatekeeper in relation to its online social networking service, given that the investigation revealed that X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users."

Since March, X had strongly opposed the gatekeeper designation by arguing that although X connects advertisers to more than 45 million monthly users, it does not have a "significant impact" on the EU's internal market, a case filing showed.

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