https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/retaliation-texas-ag-paxton-demands
On Thursday, a legal filing by PFLAG National revealed that Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas was seeking identification of transgender members. The organization alleges retaliation.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-back-decision-to-stop-windows-11-22h2-preview-updates/
Microsoft says that systems running Windows 11 22H2 will continue to receive non-security preview updates after initially stating they would no longer receive them after February 2024.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/22/headlines/chicago_sues_big_oil_over_climate_crisis
The city of Chicago is suing six oil and gas giants, as well as an industry trade group, which “funded, conceived, planned, and carried out a sustained and widespread campaign of denial and disinformation about the existence of climate change and their products’ contribution to it.” Progressive Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson filed the lawsuit Tuesday against ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66 and the American Petroleum Institute. The suit lays out the climate crisis impacts faced by Chicago, including more frequent and intense storms, flooding, droughts, extreme heat waves and shoreline erosion. Chicago joins eight other states, the District of Columbia and multiple municipalities across the U.S. that have filed similar lawsuits against Big Oil over their role in exacerbating the climate crisis.
https://www.techspot.com/news/102057-tumblr-wordpress-data-exploited-ai-model-training.html
Automattic is working on a business deal with Midjourney and OpenAI and has already prepared an initial batch of content to feed their models. An unnamed internal...
https://www.blackhatethicalhacking.com/news/litespeed-cache-plugin-exposes-5-million-wordpress-sites-to-privilege-escalation/?
A critical security vulnerability has been unveiled in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress, posing a significant risk of privilege escalation for unauthenticated users. Tracked as CVE-2023-40000, this vulnerability was addressed in October 2023 with the release of version 5.7.0.1 of the plugin.
https://securityaffairs.com/159716/data-breach/cencora-discloses-data-breach.html
Pharmaceutical giant Cencora suffered a cyber attack and threat actors stole data from its infrastructure.
https://popular.info/p/nex-benedicts-mom-raises-doubts-about
The mother of Nex Benedict — the non-binary Oklahoma teen who was assaulted in a school bathroom and died the following day — is raising doubts about statements released by the local police. On Wednesday, the Owasso Police posted a statement to the department's Facebook page, which appeared to defend the Owasso High School's response to the February 7 incident. The statement also suggested that Nex's death the following day was unrelated to the bathroom assault. In a text exchange with Popular Information, Sue Benedict, Nex's mother, said she considered the Owasso Police statement a "big cover" and believed it was only released as "something to calm the people."
https://keeptrack.substack.com/p/florida-advances-bills-to-roll-back
This week, Keep Track takes a look at a selection of bills under consideration by the Florida legislature. The Sunshine State, controlled by an increasingly extreme Republican trifecta, has been a testing ground for legislation that chips away at constitutional and civil rights. Bills that become law and survive subsequent legal challenges are often copied by other red states—like the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which was duplicated and
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