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President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back against pressure from the U.S. to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, writing on social media on Oct. 11 that Moscow first needs to stop targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

"The real cause of the war in Europe is Russia, and Russia alone. It is already possible today to halt the attacks on our energy sector, but (Vladimir) Putin does not want to do so," Zelensky said.

Just had to rush our diabetic cat to the vet hospital this afternoon.

We've been on top of his treatment but today he was being lethargic. He got up and was very wobbly, something was obviously wrong.

We have a home testing kit which I rushed out and it got a reading of 1.1 mmol/L which is way way too low.

Got the honey out and put some on my finger and rubbed on his tongue. Called Vet. Did honey 3 more times and then rushed to the vet.

Dunno why I'm writing this. I'm in the waiting room trying not to cry. It's an emergency vet and everyone here is solemn or crying. So sad.

Found at Kultepe, Turkey, this nearly 4,000-year-old sealed letter was decoded using CT scans recently. Turns out, it was a woman complaining that someone refused to repay a debt.

"These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," media reports Burnham saying.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://kyivindependent.com/russia-behind-britains-brexit-vote-uk-prime-minister-admits-for-first-time-2/

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Social media platform Meta has 48 hours to respond to claims by Brazil's leftwing candidate and incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's campaign accusing the tech platform of blocking content on the company's platforms. Brazil's Superior Electoral Court on Saturday gave the social media giant 48 hours to clarify whether it reduced the reach of posts by Lula's campaign ahead of the tight October 25 run-off against rightwing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro.

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Let’s Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority widely used to secure websites with HTTPS, announced it will shorten the default validity period of its TLS certificates from 90 days to 64 days, starting February 10, 2027.

All certificates issued or renewed from that date will have a 64-day lifespan unless users explicitly select one of the shorter options already available: 45 or six days.

Existing certificates will remain valid until their expiration dates. Let’s Encrypt expects the final 90-day certificate to expire on May 11, 2027. The organization also confirmed no valid certificates will be revoked during the transition.

To help administrators prepare, Let’s Encrypt will introduce 64-day certificates in its staging environment on October 14, 2026, allowing users to test their renewal setups before the change reaches production.

The move is part of a broader effort to improve web security by reducing how long compromised or incorrectly issued certificates remain usable. Simply put, shorter certificate lifetimes mean attackers have less time to exploit a stolen private key.

Of course, shorter validity periods also mean certificates must be renewed more frequently. For website administrators already using automated renewal tools, this should require little or no intervention.

In particular, Let’s Encrypt says users whose ACME clients support ACME Renewal Info should be ready for the transition. ARI allows the certificate authority to inform clients when certificates should be renewed, rather than relying on fixed schedules.

However, administrators using cron jobs or scripts with hardcoded renewal intervals should review their configurations. Instead of renewing a certificate a fixed number of days before expiration, Let’s Encrypt recommends scheduling renewals after approximately two-thirds of its validity period has passed.

The organization suggests checking scripts and configuration files for hardcoded values like 83, 80, or 60 days, which may no longer work reliably with shorter-lived certificates.

Another upcoming change concerns domain validation. Let’s Encrypt will reduce the period during which a previously completed domain authorization can be reused from 30 days to 10 days. In 2028, that period will shrink further to just seven hours.

The goal is to align with upcoming industry requirements and simplify how the certificate authority handles previously validated domains. Most users won’t need to make adjustments unless their ACME clients depend on reusing earlier authorizations.

Importantly, the transition won’t change Let’s Encrypt’s existing rate limits, ACME endpoints, or certificate issuance chains.

Looking further ahead, the organization plans to reduce the default certificate lifetime again, this time to 45 days in 2028. That makes the upcoming 64-day limit an intermediate step rather than the final destination.

For more information, see Let’s Encrypt’s official announcement.

The most successful political propaganda in our time was convincing millions of people that caring for others and the planet was somehow a threat to America.

Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

Question inspired by what seems likely to be my mild, newly developed environmental allergies