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View More NewsIn brief U.S. prosecutors charged 17 alleged members of Iran-based Mabna Institute in a years-long hacking campaign. Six defendants were allegedly involved in the HBO hack, which included an attempt to extort the company for roughly $6 million in Bitcoin. The group allegedly stole at least 31.5 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property. U.S. prosecutors charged 17 alleged Iranian hackers involved in a years-long cyber campaign that included the 2017 HBO breach and an attempt to extort the company for roughly $6 million in Bitcoin.On Tuesday, the Justice Department said the defendants were members of Iran-based Mabna Institute, which…
Some excerpts from Judge Kathleen Waterman-Marshall’s longish decision filed Monday in Abdou v. Columbia Univ. (an appeal appears imminent): Plaintiff Mohamed Abdou … is a North African-Egyptian Muslim scholar in the field of Cultural Studies, who was employed as a visiting professor at Columbia for the Spring 2024 academic term; his employment term end date was May 31, 2024. On April 17, 2024, Dr. Shafik, the former Columbia President, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce … During the House Committee hearing, members of Congress questioned university presidents, including Dr. Shafik, about pro-Palestinian activism on campuses….…
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I first came across French writer Jean Raspail’s infamous novel The Camp of the Saints while I was reading Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe back in 2017. Raspail’s novel imagines the invasion of Europe by large groups of unsanitary and ravenous migrants from the Global South led by a coprophage (“shit-eater”). Despite his own firmly anti-immigration views, Murray declines to defend the book’s inflammatory contents, but he is nonetheless struck by Raspail’s descriptions of Western passivity in the face of an unsustainable wave of immigration. The book’s overt racism notwithstanding, it has attracted some attention in recent years…
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