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Hamas says there will be no further prisoner exchange with Israel until the war on Gaza is over.  

One lesson from the 1982 Lebanon war is that Israel’s enemy only needs to survive against superior firepower to gain an advantage Israel-Hamas war – live updates The scene is one familiar from many conflicts. Soldiers line up to get food from an outdoor canteen, weapons slung haphazardly over their shoulders, boots muddy, shirts undone.…

A boat carrying more than 100 asylum seekers reaches the archipelago nation while two more boats are still at sea.  

As we first reported in yesterday’s weekly security post, researchers at EURECOM have revealed the details (PDF, references) of a new man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on Bluetooth 4.2 through 5.4, which has been assigned CVE-2023-24023. Like preceding CVEs, it concerns the session authentication between Bluetooth devices, where the attacker uses spoofed paired or bonded devices to…

The Boys-verse is in the midst of further expansion. Last week Amazon revealed they were launching yet another spin-off of Garth Ennis and Darik Robertson’s renegade superhero comic, with a Mexico-set series involving dynamic duo Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal. But what about the one that started it all? Well, Season 4 is arriving…

Getty Image 50 Cent’s longstanding disdain of Diddy appears to have reached new heights. According to Page Six, the former is allegedly working to develop an investigative documentary about latter and his legal woes. Given 50 Cent’s troll-like tendencies and the public pressure Diddy is facing following the strings of sexual assault lawsuits, people online…

Billionaire John Caudwell open to switching allegiance after criticism of UK government’s net zero policy A billionaire Tory donor has said Keir Starmer is more receptive to his ideas than Rishi Sunak. John Caudwell was the Conservative party’s biggest donor in the run-up to the 2019 general election, during which he gave £500,000 to Boris…

State to receive extra congressional district after winning court battle – but advocates must convince Black voters to turn out Tuskegee resident Elise Tolbert hasn’t had a hospital in her city in her lifetime. Macon county, where her family has lived for generations and where four out of five residents are Black, once had two…

In the eye of a financial storm, the Labour party linchpin proved himself a safe pair of hands by steering us out of the 2008 crash The death of former chancellor Alistair Darling at the age of 70 has come as a shock. The fact that he had been suffering from an aggressive form of…

Controversial EagleAI program connected to Trump supporter uses public records to flag people who shouldn’t be on the rolls A Georgia county on Friday agreed to use a controversial program to identify ineligible people on its voter rolls that is connected to one of the most prominent election deniers and a key figure in Donald…