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After Cybertruck Terror Attack, Elon Musk Screeches That Cybertrucks Are Bad for Terror Attacks

After Cybertruck Terror Attack, Elon Musk Screeches That Cybertrucks Are Bad for Terror Attacks

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A Tesla Cybertruck exploded just outside the Trump Towers hotel in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning, killing the person occupying the vehicle and injuring seven others. You’d be forgiven for initially suspecting the vehicle had burst into flames on its own, since others have previously. But investigators are now suggesting that the incident may have been an act of terrorism. Now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has chimed in — and instead of denouncing the mindless act of violence, he’s arguing that the brutalist and highly divisive pickup truck was a poor choice for a would-be terrorist. In a tone-deaf response on his social media echo chamber X, Musk claimed that the “Cybertruck is the worst possible choice for a car bomb, as its stainless steel armor will contain the blast better than any other commercial vehicle.” His defensiveness is understandable: the optics are exceptionally bad, with the Cybertruck — which has become a stand-in for Musk’s increasingly extremist views — burning in front of a hotel part-owned by his number one ally, president-elect Donald Trump. Musk …

The Most Effective Antidote to ISIS Attacks

The Most Effective Antidote to ISIS Attacks

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The best way to prevent a recurrence of the terror in New Orleans is to dismantle the Islamic State and relegate it to obscurity. Geoff Burke / USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters January 1, 2025, 9:01 PM ET The man who murdered at least 15 people with his truck on Bourbon Street last night was flying the black banner of the Islamic State from his truck, according to the FBI. Police shot 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar dead at the scene. So far little else is known about the suspect, but since ISIS flags are not standard options in Ford F-150s, it is reasonable to presume that the driver—a U.S. Army veteran—committed mass murder as an homage to the Islamic State. President-elect Donald Trump famously lamented that Mexico was “not sending their best” to the United States. After contempt for the New Orleans killer, and sadness for the dead and 35 wounded, my reaction to this attack is relief that for the last decade, the Islamic State has been sending its best, and its best remain …

Defending SOCs Under Siege: Battling Adversarial AI Attacks

Defending SOCs Under Siege: Battling Adversarial AI Attacks

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More With 77% of enterprises already victimized by adversarial AI attacks and eCrime actors achieving a record breakout time of just 2 minutes and 7 seconds, the question isn’t if your Security Operations Center (SOC) will be targeted — it’s when. As cloud intrusions soared by 75% in the past year, and two in five enterprises suffered AI-related security breaches, every SOC leader needs to confront a brutal truth: Your defenses must either evolve as fast as the attackers’ tradecraft or risk being overrun by relentless, resourceful adversaries who pivot in seconds to succeed with a breach. Combining generative AI (gen AI), social engineering, interactive intrusion campaigns and an all-out assault on cloud vulnerabilities and identities, attackers are executing a playbook that seeks to capitalize on every SOC weakness they can find. CrowdStrike’s 2024 Global Threat Report finds that nation-state attackers are taking identity-based and social engineering attacks to a new level of intensity. Nation-states have long …

The Jewish History Behind the Dutch Soccer Attacks

The Jewish History Behind the Dutch Soccer Attacks

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Ajax, the Dutch soccer club that Maccabi Tel Aviv played before its fans were attacked in Amsterdam, has long identified itself with Jews. Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Sources: Getty. November 8, 2024, 3:21 PM ET Among the bizarrest phenomena in the world of sports is Ajax, the most accomplished club in the storied history of Dutch soccer. Its fans—blond-haired men with beer guts, boys with blue eyes—sing “Hava Nagila” as they cram into the trams taking them to the stadium on the fringes of Amsterdam. Ajax fans tattoo the Star of David onto their forearms. In the moments before the opening kick of a match, they proudly shout at the top of their lungs, “Jews, Jews, Jews,” because—though most of them are not Jewish—philo-Semitism is part of their identity. Last night, the club that describes itself as Jewish played against a club of actual Jews, Maccabi Tel Aviv. As Israeli fans left the stadium, after their club suffered a thumping defeat, they were ambushed by well-organized groups of thugs, in what the …

Emhoff on Trump’s personal attacks of Harris: ‘As a husband, it pisses me off’ but ‘we cannot be distracted by it’

Emhoff on Trump’s personal attacks of Harris: ‘As a husband, it pisses me off’ but ‘we cannot be distracted by it’

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Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, said former President Trump’s personal attacks against his wife, Vice President Harris, make him angry, but they can’t let it distract them from the goal of winning the White House. “As a husband, it pisses me off. But as a first gentleman, someone who hopes to be the first gentleman,… Source link

Trump Attacks The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Over Hitler

Trump Attacks The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Over Hitler

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The Republican nominee’s fixation on The Atlantic follows a dark pattern. Anna Moneymaker / Getty October 27, 2024, 3:19 PM ET When someone attacks the messenger rather than the message, they’re usually revealing something. Friday night in Austin, Texas, the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, fiercely criticized The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, over a recent report about Trump’s troubling attitude toward the military, which he believes should be loyal to him personally. As Goldberg reports, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” which is both chilling and historically illiterate. Read: Trump: ‘I need the kind of generals Hitler had’ Trump called The Atlantic “a failing magazine run by a guy named Goldberg.” He added that “they were the ones that made up the story about me saying bad things about this, about the soldiers.” That’s a reference to another article that Goldberg published, in September 2020, reporting that then-President Trump had called Americans who died in wars “suckers” and “losers.” Trump’s attack is factually wrong on nearly every count, …

Blood platelet test could save millions of Americans from heart attacks and strokes

Blood platelet test could save millions of Americans from heart attacks and strokes

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Platelets, the small cell fragments circulating in your blood, are essential for healing injuries by clumping together to form blood clots. However, when platelets become hyperreactive, they can cause dangerous clots that block arteries, leading to heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues, including peripheral artery disease. Millions of Americans are at risk from this abnormal clotting. Currently, there isn’t a reliable, routine test to determine if your platelets are clumping too much, which complicates efforts to manage cardiovascular risk. The method most commonly used, known as platelet aggregometry, tends to produce results that vary significantly from one lab to another, making it impractical for widespread use. A team of researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine is addressing this issue with a new approach. In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers identified 451 genes with significant differences in activity between patients with hyperreactive platelets and those without. Using this information, they developed the Platelet Reactivity ExpresSion Score (PRESS), a genetic-based system that assesses platelet hyperreactivity and predicts cardiovascular risk. Platelet hyperreactivity and …

Using Real-Time Threat Detection To Stop Kubernetes Attacks

Using Real-Time Threat Detection To Stop Kubernetes Attacks

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Over the last year 89% of organizations experienced at least one container or Kubernetes security incident, making security a high priority for DevOps and security teams. Despite many DevOps teams’ opinions of Kubernetes not being secure, it commands 92% of the container market. Gartner predicts that 95% of enterprises will be running containerized applications in production by 2029, a significant jump from less than 50% last year.  While misconfigurations are responsible for 40% of incidents and 26% reported their organizations failed audits, the underlying weaknesses of Kubernetes security haven’t yet been fully addressed. One of the most urgent issues is deciphering the massive number of alerts produced and finding the ones that reflect a credible threat. Kubernetes attacks are growing Attackers are finding Kubernetes environments to be an easy target due to the growing number of misconfigurations and vulnerabilities enterprises using them are not resolving quickly – if at all. Red Hat’s latest state of Kubernetes security …

Ethnic minority shop owners targeted in UK riots fear more attacks | Features

Ethnic minority shop owners targeted in UK riots fear more attacks | Features

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As rioters went on the attack in dozens of British towns and cities recently, some targeted businesses belonging to ethnic minority Britons. The unrest began in the aftermath of a fatal stabbing attack in Southport that killed three young girls, which agitators misleadingly blamed on a Muslim migrant. As disinformation about the suspect travelled at pace online, angry crowds took to the streets to abuse migrants and Muslims at random. Black and Asian Britons were also targeted. On August 3, as many brought chaos to the northern English city of Liverpool, which is near Southport, Ardalan Othman watched in real time as his convenience shop was looted and vandalised. His security cameras filmed the incident. In one scene, a group of men steal boxes of cigarettes. Some take expensive items like vapes. A couple spend their efforts trying to break into the till. But some are seen placing singular bars of chocolate into their rucksacks. “I could see everything as it was happening,” said Othman. He called the police immediately but it was too late. …

GOP women beg Trump to tone down attacks as his campaign pushes racist Kamala Harris meme

GOP women beg Trump to tone down attacks as his campaign pushes racist Kamala Harris meme

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It used to be that you had to go to the dark recesses of the web to find white supremacist memes about immigrants of color poisoning the blood of the nation. In 2024, those memes are now distributed by one of the two major political parties in the United States, using a platform owned by the world’s richest man. “Import the third world. Become the third world,” Donald Trump’s official campaign account posted on X, billionaire Elon Musk’s more racist version of Twitter. The post was accompanied by side-by-side images, one of an idyllic suburban home hanging an American flag, the other (“Your neighborhood under Kamala”) a group of largely Black men. Very fine people these immigrants are not, according to the Republican Party’s candidate for president. Elect Vice President Kamala Harris, whose biracial background is both confounding and upsetting to the Trump-Vance ticket, and the message is clear: White folks might see people of color — Black men, even — in their very own neighborhood. It’s nothing new for the 78-year-old Trump, a man …