FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes.

(If you use Avast is the good time to uninstall it)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-to-ban-avast-from-selling-browsing-data-for-advertising-purposes/

11 years ago today, a Bitcoin developer decided to visit the CIA. Satoshi Nakamoto was never seen again.

https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1519275427168231427

11 years ago today, reading about the Cyprus debt crisis I discovered for the first time Bitcoin. This has irreversibly changed my perspectives on political, monetary and social views.

I am extremely grateful for everything that came after, the people I met, the experiences I had, the things I learned, the emotions I felt. The good and the bad.

We must never stop learning new things every day and looking for the best part of ourselves.

The best is yet to come!

BREAKING: In an exclusive interview with France24, the Prime Minister of Armenia stated that Baku considers today's Armenia as Western Azerbaijan and is preparing an attack on Armenia.

Major X6.3 solar flare erupts from Region 3590.

A major X6.3 solar flare erupted from Active Region 3590 at 22:34 UTC on February 22, 2024. The event started at 22:08 UTC and ended at 22:43.

This is now the second X-class solar flare of the day (UTC), the third in 24 hours, the strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25, and the 26th strongest since 1996.

https://watchers.news/2024/02/22/major-x6-3-solar-flare-erupts-from-region-3590/

Vice website is shutting down (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/62N3U
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/62N3U

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has broken the stalemate in Ukraine: Former US Defense secretary

The Russian military has broken the stalemate in the Ukraine war, Robert Gates, former CIA director and secretary of Defense, said Wednesday, following Moscow’s successful push to take the front-line city of Avdiivka.

“It’s no longer a stalemate. The Russians have regained momentum,” Gates told The Washington Post’s David Ignatius in a streaming interview. “Everything I’m reading is that the Russians are on the offensive along the 600-mile front.”

Russia has suffered staggering losses in the war, he noted, but with Ukraine now confronting artillery shortages due to flagging U.S. support, “the Russians are feeling that the tides have turned, and while there is much to be done, the initiative has passed to them,” Gates said.

“They have more and more supplies coming in — I’ve read that for every artillery shell fired by Ukrainian forces, the Russians fire 10,” he added.

Gates noted that European allies in NATO, “who we so often criticize,” have stepped up their support to Ukraine, but lack the ability to immediately send weapons. Production timelines will see NATO support reach the battlefield in 2025, he estimated.

Right now, “the only real military lifeline comes from the United States. And as we all know, that is, shall we say, on pause right now,” he said.

Gates called out Congress specifically for being too slow on approving key battlefield capabilities throughout the war, such as missile systems that have allowed strikes against Russian-occupied Crimea, which he called a “no-brainer.”

“Congress will debate for a year or more whether to send the Ukrainians tanks, and after a year, they’ll send tanks,” he said. These weapons could have arrived “a year and a half” earlier, and their delay has restrained Ukraine’s abilities, he said.

🔗 https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4481737-russia-broken-stalemate-ukraine-gates/