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Famine Looms in Sudan as Civil War Pushes Capital Toward Abyss
A year of fighting has turned the once proud capital, Khartoum, into a charred battleground. Millions have fled. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries.
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Getting a Cease-Fire in Gaza Has Been Hard. Fulfilling One Will Be Harder.
The proposal backed by President Biden is deeply political and aims at stopping the war at least for now. But Israel rejects a permanent cease-fire and Hamas has its own reasons for reluctance.
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Biden’s New Order Leaves Migrants at Border in Limbo Over Asylum Fate
In Mexican cities along the border with the United States, migrants were taking a wait-and-see approach to a restrictive new executive action.
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Narendra Modi Fell to Earth After Making It All About Himself
The Indian leader used his singular persona to lift his party to new heights. Then the opposition found a way to use his cult of personality against him.
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When ‘Bad Boys’ Began, Martin Lawrence Was the Top Dog
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” hits theaters this weekend, giving fans one more installment in the ongoing adventures of wisecracking Miami detectives Marcus and Mike. Like a lot of franchises, these movies increasingly peddle nostalgia, playing on audiences’ fond memories of the previous chapters. But at a certain point, you have to marvel that there’s…
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Expecto Patronus: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at 20
With time and hindsight, the “Potter” franchise has taken on something of a complicated legacy (especially for the series’ sizable sect of LGBTQ+) fans, thanks to the continually transphobic comments made by author J.K. Rowling. “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” was a smash hit in 2004 when the earth moved with each new…
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Bridgett M. Davis
A decade ago, memoirist, novelist, teacher, curator, and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis thought her feature film “Naked Acts” had found its final resting place at the Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University, where she had deposited the film’s 16mm elements and ephemera, figuring it would live on solely as an artifact to be…
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Operation Crimson Palace: A Technical Deep Dive
Sophos Managed Detection and Response initiated a threat hunt across all customers after the detection of abuse of a vulnerable legitimate VMware executable (vmnat.exe) to perform dynamic link library (DLL) side-loading on one customer’s network. In a search for similar incidents in telemetry, MDR ultimately uncovered a complex, persistent cyberespionage campaign targeting a high-profile government…
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Operation Crimson Palace: Sophos threat hunting unveils multiple clusters of Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting Southeast Asian government
Threat clusters targeted a government agency for cyberespionage in a campaign that had precursors dating back to early 2022.
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Introducing Active Threat Response for Sophos Switch/Sophos Wireless (AP6)
Active Threat Response is available now for all Sophos AP6 Series and Switch customers.