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France, one of Europe’s leading electricity exporters, has taken 28 of its 56 atomic reactors offline due to defects or maintenance. The step comes amid a months-long energy crunch, one of the worst in European history. The 1,300-megawatt Golfech-2 reactor run by Electricite de France (EDF) in the south of country was shut down on Friday for maintenance until Saturday, the company said in a filing with grid operator RTE. Source;  RT Online Publication Site.

At least six different Russia-aligned actors launched no less than 237 cyberattacks against Ukraine from February 23 to April 8, including 38 discrete destructive attacks that irrevocably destroyed files in hundreds of systems across dozens of organizations in the country. "Collectively, the cyber and kinetic actions work to disrupt or degrade Ukrainian government and military functions and undermine the public's trust in those same institutions," the company's Digital Security Unit (DSU) said in a special report. The major malware families that have been leveraged for destructive activity as part of Russia's relentless digital assaults include: WhisperGate, HermeticWiper (FoxBlade aka KillDisk), HermeticRansom (SonicVote), IssacWiper (Lasainraw), CaddyWiper, DesertBlade, DoubleZero (FiberLake), and Industroyer2. WhisperGate, HermeticWiper, IssacWiper, and CaddyWiper are all data wipers designed to overwrite data and render machines unbootable, while DoubleZero is...

distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The web infrastructure and website security company called it one of the "largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record." "HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS encrypted connection," Cloudflare's Omer Yoachimik and Julien Desgats said. "Therefore it costs the attacker more to launch the attack, and for the victim to mitigate it." The volumetric DDoS attack is said to have lasted less than 15 seconds and targeted an unnamed Cloudflare customer operating a crypto launchpad. Volumetric DDoS attacks are designed to overwhelm a target network/service with significantly high volumes of malicious traffic, which typically originate from a botnet under a threat actor's control. di...

  The left’s response to Musk’s Twitter buyout says ‘we are power-hungry control-freaks’: Watters Jesse Watters discusses the ‘panic’ the liberal media is showcasing over Elon Musk buying out Twitter on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Listen to this article 0:00 / 6:22 1X BeyondWords The Washington Post  has launched a full-scale war on  Elon Musk  as his takeover of  Twitter  has sparked a complete media meltdown.  On Wednesday, the paper whose slogan is "Democracy Dies in Darkness" published a pair of reports ratcheting up its attacks on the Tesla CEO, whose $44 billion offer to buy Twitter has been approved this week despite the heavy resistance he previously faced.  One report lamented how Democrats can do very little to combat Musk, a staunch advocate for free speech, writing how President Biden's "tech agenda gets a reality check" and how "Washington’s hands are largely tied as the world’s richest pers...

 BANGUI, April 27 (Reuters) - Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as an official currency, the presidency said on Wednesday, becoming the first country in Africa and only the second in the world to do so. Despite rich reserves of gold and diamonds, Central African Republic is one of the world's poorest and least-developed countries and has been gripped by rebel violence for years. A bill governing the use of cryptocurrency was adopted unanimously by parliament last week, said a statement signed by Obed Namsio, chief of staff of President Faustin-Archange Touadera. "The president supports this bill because it will improve the conditions of Central African citizens," Namsio told Reuters, without elaborating. In the statement, he called it "a decisive step toward opening up new opportunities for our country". Central African Republic is one of six nations that use the Central African CFA franc, a regional currency governed by the Bank of Central African St...

  The suspect identified as Ssozi Derrick 20 years was arrested during an intelligence-led operation in areas of Kisumu Village, Nabweru Division in Wakiso District on 24/04/2022 at around 1500 hrs. Ssozi, a resident of the same area was found allegedly surveilling the area while carrying a backpack. An immediate search was conducted and officers recovered the following items from his backpack; 01 Panga wrapped in a red cloth, 02 knives, 01cutter and 02 harmers. The bag is also suspected to be stolen. Detectives proceeded to his place of residence where another search was carried out and several suspected stolen properties were recovered. These include; 02 television sets, 02 woofers, 02 fans, three master keys, 01 Techno smartphone, cash amounting to four million fifty thousand Ugandan shillings (4,050,000) and other household items valued at thirteen million (13 million) Shillings.  We also recovered two  Motorcycles Reg nos. UFA 513J and UFL 408A suspected to be stolen...

Over the last few days, talk around town has been about the birthday celebrations of the first son Gen MUHOOZI Kainerugaba. The celebrations took place in several parts of the country and going by the social and other media posts, it was a great success. That was a good thing because he wanted to celebrate with others but also to make a statement and I'm sure all that was achieved. I was not in attendance but even if I received an invite for the much hyped Saturday event, I most likely would have missed it. I take the opportunity rather belatedly to congratulate him and wish him a happy 48th birthday. I wouldn't have attended because I had to attend the wedding of a close friend and business acquaintance on the same day. I realized we are separated in age by 9 months and 20 days (him older than me). I also congratulate the organizers of the different events across the country such as Balaam Barugahare whom I can call a friend I have spoken to a few times but we aren't as cl...

Nakku’s father was buried yesterday but her uncle Lwasa want to take over all the property ‘mbu’ his brother (Nakku’s father) made that will a long time ago when he was immature and just got too busy to change it so the will is expired. Nakku wants to know if a will can expire  WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?  A will CANNOT expire. There is no time limit or expiry date on a will.  This is because a will shows what person wishes for when they are dead. It means that person has every chance while they are alive to change the will if their wishes should change.  If a person wants to end the contract, he/she must do one these things;  1. Make a new will  2. Tear/burn or destroy the old will.  3. Make an addition to the existing will.    ARE THERE ANY EXCEPTIONS?? There are. There is something called Privileged Wills. This is a will made by a person who is a soldier and is likely to die in war etc. the law allows this person to make this will ‘just in case...

The lawsuit argues violation of the First Amendment. Video After-school 'Satan Club' opens to first graders in Illinois Fox News chief religion correspondent Lauren Green reports an after-school club run by the Satanic Temple where they reportedly teach 'critical thinking' and 'creative expression'. eyondWords The Satanic Temple is suing a  Pennsylvania  elementary school after its school board voted against the introduction of an After School Satan Club last week. The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit on constitutional grounds against Northern Elementary School in York, Pennsylvania, according to local ABC outlet  KTUL . Mathew Kezhaya, the general counsel for The Satanic Temple, said the lawsuit intends to litigate whether the Northern York County School Board discriminated against the organization by not allowing them to start an after school club when other organizations are allowed to. This image is used by the Satanic Temple.   (AP) "The First Amendment ...