Cyber Resilience Act: Agreement with Council to boost digital products’ security 

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Cyber Resilience Act: Agreement with Council to boost digital products’ security  MEPs have reached a deal with the Presidency of the Council on new cyber resilience rules to protect all digital products in the EU from cyber threats.Parliament and Council negotiators reached an informal agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act, which aims to ensure that products with digital features are secure to use, resilient against cyber threats and provide enough information about their security properties.The rules will put important and critical products into different lists based on their criticality and the level of cybersecurity risk they pose. Two lists will be proposed and updated by the European Commission. During negotiations, MEPs secured an expansion of the list of covered devices with products such as identity management systems software, password managers, biometric readers, smart home assistants and private security cameras. Products should also have security updates installed automatically and separately from functionality ones.MEPs also pushed for the European ...

Horoscopes Dec. 6, 2023: Lindsay Price, choose innovative ideas

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Horoscopes Dec. 6, 2023: Lindsay Price, choose innovative ideas CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Lindsay Price, 47; Judd Apatow, 56; Tom Hulce, 70; JoBeth Williams, 75.Happy Birthday: Stick to the facts and be honest about how you feel and what you want to pursue this year. A direct approach to life, love and achieving happiness will give you the necessary advantage to turn your dreams into a reality. Opportunity is apparent, but intelligence, passion and hard work will be mandatory in getting what you want. Use your imagination and choose innovative ideas. Your numbers are 5, 17, 20, 27, 33, 38, 41.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Go over your investments, contracts, or health concerns and discuss any changes you want to make with someone you trust to give you sound advice. Don’t let your emotions infiltrate into a professional situation. Maintaining a solid reputation is necessary to advance. 3 starsTAURUS (April 20-May 20): An opportunity to learn will pay off and lead to something gratifying. Increasing your qualifications will get you a step c...

Word Game: Dec. 6, 2023

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Word Game: Dec. 6, 2023 TODAY’S WORD — FIREPOT (FIREPOT: FIRE-pot: An eastern Asian vessel for cooking foods at the table.)Average mark 23 wordsTime limit 35 minutesCan you find 30 or more words in FIREPOT? The list will be published tomorrow.YESTERDAY’S WORD — PURPORTS port post pour pout prop purport purr roust rout rust opus ours oust tour sort soup sour sport spot spout sprout spur spurt stop stoup strop stupor supportTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at kzsaxe@g...

Single-family home sells in Oakland for $1.7 million

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Single-family home sells in Oakland for $1.7 million 5800 Colton Boulevard – Google Street ViewA house located in the 5800 block of Colton Boulevard in Oakland has new owners. The 1,668-square-foot property, built in 1939, was sold on Oct. 18, 2023, for $1,650,000, or $989 per square foot. This single-story home presents a roomy floor plan, featuring four bedrooms and two bathrooms. On the exterior, the home features composition shingles on the roof. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. In addition, the home comes with a one-car garage.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:On Colton Boulevard, Oakland, in March 2023, a 2,373-square-foot home was sold for $1,975,000, a price per square foot of $832. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In July 2023, a 2,060-square-foot home on Cabot Drive in Oakland sold for $1,300,000, a price per square foot of $631. The home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 2,228-square-foot home on the 5700 block of Cabot Drive in Oakland sold in November 2022, ...

Ask Amy: After this man’s behavior at my wedding, I want my best friend to dump him

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Ask Amy: After this man’s behavior at my wedding, I want my best friend to dump him Dear Amy: I hate my best friend’s boyfriend.Related ArticlesAdvice | Ask Amy: Now I realize what stay-at-home spouses are complaining about Advice | Ask Amy: Now we’re feeling weird about our daughter’s favorite toy Advice | Ask Amy: I’ll never forgive my sister-in-law for her question to my little girl Advice | Ask Amy: How can I avoid the vortex of the other grandmother? Advice | Ask Amy: He has resurrected this wedding drama and is using it against me I met my “Shari” in high school. We have been inseparable ever since. Back then, she was outgoing, radiated confidence, was down to earth, and nothing ever bothered her.Since she began her relationship with “Stephan,” she is a completely different person.She is unsure of herself, has no confidence, and she now has frequent anxiety attacks. I attribute all of this to Stephan. She complains about him a lot.When I first met him, I wa...

Jon Stewart for Celebrity President. This Is Not a Joke!

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Jon Stewart for Celebrity President. This Is Not a Joke! Jon Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on June 17, 2019.Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty ImagesShould liberals — i.e., America’s jambalaya of FDR-heads, radicals in name only, organizers with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and even normcore Democrats — try to get Jon Stewart to run for president?An affirmative response comes from Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and former director of Ithaca College’s Park Center for Independent Media. Stewart rose to stardom as host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, and after stepping down in 2015, he returned to TV in 2021 in “The Problem With Jon Stewart” (which Apple TV recently canceled). Cohen makes the case here, in a column, and here, in an interview with Salon.Whether or not Stewart will run for president, Cohen convincingly explains why he should. His arguments about this apply beyond the specifics of Stewart and suggest that what Democrats truly need is more funny c...

Few wet flakes possible but no accumulation for DC region Wednesday

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Few wet flakes possible but no accumulation for DC region Wednesday There’s been talk about snow for the D.C. region Tuesday night into Wednesday, but it never came to be.Instead, there will be a few rain showers early Wednesday morning with a mixture of a few wet snowflakes. 7News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Veronica Johnson said that the mix will come to an end around sunrise.“We are going to see skies clear we’re going to turn partly sunny” later on in the day “with temperatures pushing into the mid-40s,” she said.Those living in the immediate D.C. region will still have to bundle up as wind chills will be in the 30s throughout most of the day. It’ll be worse in the evening as temperatures could reach the low 30s.7News First Alert Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff said that “areas of frost are possible.”Temperatures will improve over the next few days, starting with mostly cloudy conditions reaching the upper 40s on Thursday. Friday will have partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the mi...

After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit Wednesday finished up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.“Negotiations, as are often the case, are a mixed picture right now. We see big differences between individual states in some areas,” German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan said, “but there is a will to make progress.”Proponents who are calling for a ground-shifting phase-out of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal have hope for the first time in years, but also see where it could be torpedoed. Key issues of financial help for poor nations to decarbonize and how to adapt to warming need much more work, officials said. That is in contrast to the first day when the conference — called COP28 — put into effect a climate compensation fund — called loss-and-damage — and started seeing its coffers grow to more than ...

Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday after expanding their ground offensive to its second-largest city, further shrinking the area where Palestinians can seek safety and halting the distribution of vital aid across most of the territory.The assault on the south threatens f...

Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: combates en Gaza, situación de los civiles y más

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:46:11 GMT

Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: combates en Gaza, situación de los civiles y más Para ver las entradas más recientes haz clic aquíTanques militares israelíes avanzan cerca de la frontera con Gaza el 5 de diciembre, en medio de continuas batallas entre Israel y el grupo militante Hamas. Crédito: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source