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Ngugi’s work criticized both the British colonialism in Kenya and the Postcolonial Kenya Association.Famous Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o passed away at the age of 87, his family announced. “It’s heartfelt to announce the death of his father, ngugi wa thiong’o,” his daughter, Wangjik wa Ngugi, wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. “He spent his life and had a good fight,” she said. At the time of his death, Ngugi reportedly had undergone kidney dialysis treatment, but the immediate cause of his death is still unknown. Born in Kenya in 1938, Ngugi is remembered as one of Africa’s most important postcolonial…
May 29, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cloud Security Google announced on Wednesday that a Chinese-sponsored threat actor known as APT41 has leveraged a malware called ToughProgress, which uses Google Calendar for command and control (C2). The tech giant, which discovered the activity in late October 2024, said the malware was hosted on a government website where it compromised and used to target several other government agencies. “The misuse of C2 cloud services is a technique that many threat actors use to integrate with legitimate activities,” said Patrick Whitsell, a researcher at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). APT41 is also tracked as Axiom, Blackfly,…
Cambodians and Thai officials claim soldiers from the other side who first opened the fire in the latest deadly border collision between their neighbors.Cambodian leaders sought calm in the country the day after soldiers were killed in a brief clash with troops from nearby Thailand in a conflict zone along the Thai-Cambodia border. In a written statement on Thursday, Prime Minister Hun Mane said people should not “circulate in circulating unverified material,” reassuring the country that they do not want a conflict between Cambodian and Thai forces. “For this reason, we hope that, as we have done in the past,…
COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have been in school, but a bout of nausea and a dull headache kept him from class.“It happens a lot,” Amari explained from the backseat, glancing up from his Nintendo Switch. The symptoms usually show up when the sixth-grader smells an odor of “rotten egg with propane” that rises from nearby natural gas wells and wafts over Lybrook…
May 29, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Website Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed important hidden security flaws affecting WordPress Ti Woocommerce Wishlist plugins that can be exploited by unrecognized attackers to upload any file. With over 100,000 active installations, Ti WooCommerce Wishlist is a tool that enables e-commerce website customers to save their favorite products later and share their lists on social media platforms. “The plug-ins are vulnerable to any file upload vulnerability that allows an attacker to upload malicious files to a server without authentication,” said John Castro, a researcher at PatchStack. Tracked as CVE-2025-47577, the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10.0.…
Cambridge, Massachusetts (AP) — Harvard University is holding its launch on Thursday at a pivotal moment when its position as one of the world’s leading institutions of higher education is what appears to be an existential threat from the Trump administration.Other schools face loss of federal funds and the ability to register international students if they do not agree to the changing demands of the Trump administration. However, Harvard was founded in 1636 a century and a half before the state itself, and is taking the lead by rebelling against the White House in federal courts and paying a substantial…
NEW YORK (AP) – A federal judge said Trump administration’s deportation efforts Mahmoud Khalil His pro-Palestinian activities at Columbia University are likely to violate the Constitution. In a long order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbeers wrote the main justification of the government to eliminate Halil – his belief is It could pose a threat US foreign policy can open the door to ambiguous and arbitrary enforcement. Still, Fabiartz stopped the order of Halil, who was released from Louisiana prison, and his lawyers were not fully responding to the other charges brought by the government. The judge said he will consider…
Musk released the news for X, where he declared his controversial government cost-cutting measures a victory.Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he has left President Donald Trump’s administration and is leading a multi-month project to cut federal costs. “As the time scheduled for special government officials is coming to an end, I would like to thank President @RealdonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” he wrote on social media platform X on Wednesday evening. “The @Doge mission will be strengthened over time as it will become a government-wide lifestyle,” Musk said, referring to the efficiency of the government,…
Oxon Hill, Maryland (AP) – Vikramraj, benefiting from hindsight runner-up Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2022.”The chances of getting that high are infinitely small, and the chances of doing that again are clearly slightly smaller,” Vikram said Wednesday. “So it’s a really difficult feeling, too, because you’ve always outperformed yourself since the previous year.”Don’t tell Faizan Zaki to those odds.Faizan, Who was defeated by bruhat soma He was the only speller to score a perfect score on the written spelling and vocabulary test that decided the quarterfinals of this year. He then plunged into the seventh round on Wednesday. One…
Deia Elbara on the Gaza Strip – Jehad al-Asser left his tent early in the morning in Dea Elbara in central Gaza for a new, exhausting journey to get food for his family. His destination on Wednesday: Rafa’s aid distribution point, far south of Gaza, is run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Jaehad reached the site by walking “stricken” 10km (6.2 miles), mainly driven by the weight of responsibility of his pregnant wife and two hungry daughters. The GHF site was Ehad’s only hope, as hunger spreads throughout Gaza, a direct result of months of lockdowns on Israeli…