Baby manta rays stick to the shallows to avoid sharks and orca

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A baby manta ray swimming near Central America. Image: Jeffry Madrigal Before giant manta rays (Mobula birostris) can grow to up to 30 feet long and 4,409 pounds, they must start small like most living things. Giant manta ray babies (called pups) in Central America don’t have their size to protect them from orca whalesContinue Reading

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If KeePassXC is your password-management app of choice on Linux, the new 2.8.0 update is going to please. KeePassXC 2.8.0 sees some “long-awaited new features” arrive, including a Qt6 port of the main app interface, auto-type support on Wayland via XDG Desktop Portals, fingerprint unlock and a new experimental Aarch64 AppImage.Continue Reading

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I was taking my dog for her perambulation through the leafy valleys and forests of one of the most densely populated parts of London this morning when it struck me how annoying it has become that I must now update multiple Apple devices across my family group. That’s pretty much mandatory given recentContinue Reading

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Private keys associated with eight intermediate certificate authorities operated by Indian digital trust provider eMudhra have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to forge trusted certificates and impersonate websites or services, according to Google and Mozilla. “On 17th October @ 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report to certificates@mozilla.org, forwarded by theContinue Reading

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A judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to end its investigations into noncitizen voting in nine states.  U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled Wednesday that DHS’s data  contains multiple inaccuracies and could be used to target U.S. citizens, The Washington Post reports. She barred the department from usingContinue Reading

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Albanian lawmakers have scuffled in parliament, throwing objects at one another and ripping microphones from desks., NewsFeed Albanian lawmakers have scuffled in parliament, throwing objects at one another and ripping microphones from desks. The chaos follows months of daily street protests, first over corruption, and now over schooling conditions. PublishedContinue Reading

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Meta’s conduct during Brazil’s election has become a global warning sign. On Wednesday, United Nations special rapporteurs criticized the American company and called on the platform not to interfere in Brazil’s democratic process. The news outlet ICL Notícias obtained exclusive access to the email sent to the Brazilian government detailingContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. In late August, President Traitor 47 announced what he called the “biggest oil deal in world history.” Since then, the full text of the accord — which grants the U.S. sweeping access to Venezuela’s oil reserves — has been one of the mostContinue Reading