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Breaches by Iran-affiliated hackers spanned multiple U.S. states, federal agencies say 12/02/2023 01:08pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made, U.S. and Israeli authorities say. ���The victims span m Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with running 'beauty queen coup' plot 12/02/2023 12:06am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government. The charges against pageant di World AIDS Day focuses on remembrance, commitment to fighting the disease 12/01/2023 07:30am • Friday is World AIDS day and leaders in the fight against the disease said there's still work to be done. The theme for this year's World AIDS Day is "Remember and Commit," which centers on the decades of efforts to treat HIV and educate people about the disease. "The whole purpose of this The Philippines opens a new monitoring base on a remote island in the disputed South China Sea 12/01/2023 05:46am • THITU ISLAND, South China Sea (AP) ��� The Philippines inaugurated a new coast guard monitoring base Friday on an island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea and plans to expand joint patrols with the United States and Australia to counter China���s ���pure bullying��� in the Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility hack, warning it could happen anywhere 11/30/2023 07:28pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Three members of Congress have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how foreign hackers breached a water authority near Pittsburgh, prompting the nation's top cyberdefense agency to warn other water and sewage-treatment utilities that they may be vulnerable. In a 10 Best-Performing ETFs of 2023 11/30/2023 07:00pm • When it comes to the best-performing exchange-traded funds of 2023, the theme they all share is obvious: a focus on technology. While the S&P 500 has had a pretty good year, with roughly 18% returns through Nov. 30, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has performed about twice as well in 2023. The best-perfor Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT 11/30/2023 03:39pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation���s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence ��� even if they didn't know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city co Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024 11/30/2023 09:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year's elections, Meta said Thursday. The network of nearly 4,800 f Remembering the legacy of 'Schindler's List' 30 years after its world premiere in DC 11/30/2023 06:28am • Exactly 30 years ago, "Schindler's List" made its world premiere in D.C. on Nov. 30, 1993. Director Steven Spielberg was in attendance that night in the nation's capital, while earlier that day, Oskar Schindler���s widow, Emilie Schindler, received a commemorative medal from the late Supreme Court J Cybersecurity agency warns that water utilities are vulnerable to hackers after Pennsylvania attack 11/29/2023 05:54pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S. cyberdefense agency said after a Pennsylvania water authority was hacked. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu At least 40 civilians killed by al-Qaida-linked rebels in a Burkina Faso town, UN rights office says 11/29/2023 06:10am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� At least 40 civilians were killed last weekend by al-Qaida-linked rebels trying to take control of a besieged town in Burkina Faso���s hard-hit northern region, the United Nations' rights office said, calling the attack a war crime. In one of the largest clashes in recent yea Novelist Tim Dorsey, who mixed comedy and murder in his Serge A. Storms stories, dies at 62 11/28/2023 08:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tim Dorsey, a former police and courts newspaper reporter who found lasting fame as the creator of the crime-comedy novel series starring Serge A. Storms, an energetic fan of Florida history and an ingenious serial killer, has died. He was 62. Dorsey, who published 26 novels, died Young man gets life sentence for Canada massage parlor murder that court declared act of terrorism 11/28/2023 12:12pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� A Canadian man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a Toronto massage parlor employee received a life prison sentence Tuesday for what a judge described as an act of terrorism related to an internet subculture that fuels sexual loneliness into rage and misogyny. The man, who cannot Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead 11/28/2023 11:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants. Viewed millions of times online since the war began, these images are deepfakes created using artificial intelligence. If you look closely you can s Burkina Faso's state media says hundreds of rebels have been killed trying to seize vulnerable town 11/28/2023 11:38am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Hundreds of rebels were killed as they tried to seize a town in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the state broadcaster reported, in one of the largest clashes in recent years in the West African nation under threat from fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State. More