Jour : 31 décembre 2024
President Russell M. Nelson turned 100 in 2024 but maintained his robust leadership – Deseret News
The world’s oldest religious leader had a big year.
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints turned 100 in September. Newsweek reported that he was the oldest living leader of a major religion.
Pope Francis turned 88 this month. The Dalai Lama is 89.
President Nelson is closing out his seventh year as the church’s president and prophet. He has had busier years, but not by much. To be fair, he wasn’t a century old then.
“We have never had a prophet have a year like this,” said Richard E. Turley Jr., a Latter-day Saint historian writing an upcoming biography of Joseph Smith. “We’ve never had a modern prophet who has had a 100th year, and therefore it’s unprecedented.”
Most centenarians aren’t leading global organizations, guiding the spiritual lives of 17.2 million people at major international conferences, receiving ambassadors from at least eight nations, dedicating major buildings, chairing the boards of education for four universities and colleges or overseeing $1 billion in humanitarian aid efforts.
“I think you’d be hard pressed to find not just a religious leader but a leader of any kind in the world who’s 100 years old and functioning at that level,” Turley said.
President Nelson is serving his 41st year as an apostle, a calling that came while he was still at the height of a landmark career as a pioneering heart surgeon.
In 2024, President Nelson finished his 100th year and began his 101st. Here’s a quick-read look at what he did.
His 100th birthday set an official world record long before Sept. 9 became “President Russell M. Nelson Day” in Utah by declaration of Gov. Spencer Cox.
On Aug. 3, participants in a young single adult conference set a Guinness World Record for “Most Contributions to a Greeting Card.” The official counting for the record stopped after 31,384 people had written in-person and virtual birthday messages to President Nelson.
His 100th birthday wish, however, had been for others to look outward instead of at him. The record-setting birthday card directed attention to his request in June, when he asked those who wanted to commemorate his birthday to follow Jesus Christ’s teaching about the shepherd in the parable of the lost sheep. He asked them to give a gift of their love to “the one” in their life who they’ve noticed was feeling lost or alone.
In March, the First Presidency led by President Nelson announced the purchase of the historic Kirtland Temple and other historic buildings and artifacts from Community of Christ for $192.5 million.. The temple, finished in 1836, was the first constructed in Latter-day Saint history.
“We are deeply honored to assume the stewardship of these sacred places, documents and artifacts,” he said in a statement. “We thank our friends at Community of Christ for their great care and cooperation in preserving these historical treasures thus far. We are committed to doing the same.”
Later that same month, the First Presidency named Derrick Porter the new voice for “Music & the Spoken Word,” the famed weekly radio and TV program of the Tabernacle Choir on Temple Square.
In May, President Nelson supervised the release of the first batch of hymns for the church’s new global hymnbook.
In July, the First Presidency delivered a stunning announcement that Brigham Young University will launch a new medical school.
In October, a month after turning 100, President Nelson became the first Latter-day Saint prophet to give a conference talk in his second century.
He made concessions to his age, sitting in a chair and using a desktop teleprompter in a prerecorded message because, he said, “my eyes are getting older.”
His message was robust.
“The best is yet to come … because the Savior is coming again,” President Nelson said. “The best is yet to come because the Lord is hastening his work. The best is yet to come as we fully turn our hearts and our lives to Jesus Christ.”
He said God had instructed Latter-day Saint leaders to build temples at an unprecedented pace — President Nelson has announced 185 new temples over the past seven years — because temple blessings prepare people for Christ’s second coming.
“Here is my promise to you: Every sincere seeker of Jesus Christ will find him in the temple. You will feel his mercy. You will find answers to your most vexing questions. You will better comprehend the joy of his gospel,” he said.
He also called his decision to follow Jesus Christ the most important decision in his life. And he urged listeners to rededicate their lives to Christ and devote time each week to understanding his Atonement.
In his April conference talk, President Nelson told Latter-day Saints that the temple is “the gateway to the greatest blessings God has for each of us.”
“My dear brothers and sisters, here is my promise,” he said. “Nothing will help you more to hold fast to the iron rod than worshiping in the temple as regularly as your circumstances permit. Nothing will protect you more as you encounter the world’s mists of darkness. Nothing will bolster your testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Atonement or help you understand God’s magnificent plan more. Nothing will soothe your spirit more during times of pain. Nothing will open the heavens more. Nothing!”
President Nelson made a surprise appearance to rededicate the pioneer-era Manti Utah Temple on April 21. The event had great personal meaning because his mother and father were born in the Sanpete Valley, where the temple can be seen for miles. His four grandparents also lived there after all eight of his great-grandparents were part of one of the earliest settlements in the very center of the state.
“We pray also that this may be a house of peace, a house of comfort and a house of personal revelation …,” he said in the rededicatory prayer.
On Nov. 10, he dedicated the church’s 200th temple. This one was 30 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
“When I contemplate the privilege of dedicating the Deseret Peak Utah Temple … I am filled with awe at all the Lord is doing for his people,” President Nelson said. “When I was born, there were just six operating temples in the church.”
He also noted that the 100th temple was dedicated in 2000.
“Now, just 24 years later, we are dedicating the second 100,” he said. “The Lord is truly hastening his work. I am filled with gratitude for the Lord’s mercy in guiding us to bring temples closer to members of the church throughout the world.”
On Jan. 18 President Nelson hosted Bergdís Ellertsdóttir, Iceland’s ambassador to the United States at church headquarters in Salt Lake City. On Nov. 14 he welcomed Georgi Panayotov, ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States.
In between, he met with the ambassadors to the United States from Australia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. He also received visits from the president of the Navajo Nation, the special envoy to the Middle East for the president of Indonesia and the chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of Cuba.
A great pleasure to call on the President & Prophet @NelsonRussellM in Utah at the global HQ for @Ch_JesusChrist. The Church has more than 150,000 members across some 300 Australian congregations, and provides humanitarian aid & community service around the world. pic.twitter.com/4CqRvGAd2I
President Nelson assigned other church leaders to dedicate 15 other new temples during the year. The total of 16 new temples dedicated and opened in a single year is more than any other year in church history except one. In 2000, the church dedicated 34.
President Nelson also announced plans to build an additional 32 temples in the future during the faith’s two international general conferences in 2024.
At the end of the April conference, he announced 15, including the first temples for Scotland and Iowa.
At the October conference, he announced 17, including the first temples for Ireland, Uganda, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
President Nelson will be remembered for temple building. In all, he has announced 185 temples in seven years. When all are built, the church will have 367 temples.
“Most people who reach their 100th year have declined to the point at which they cannot function very well, but he’s been remarkably bright, capable and continuing to function in his role as president of the church, giving great conference messages, announcing new temples, encouraging everyone to draw closer to Christ, including by attending the temple,” said Turley, a former assistant church historian and recorder and retired managing director of the Public Affairs Department.
Year-ender 2024 | Ballots and bullets dominated global politics; natural disasters wreaked havoc – Deccan Herald
iWallet Begins Offering Voice AI Payments – PYMNTS.com
Digital payment solutions provider iWallet is adding voice artificial intelligence technology to its payments offering.
The new technology comes as many consumers are using voice technology each day, according to a Monday (Dec. 30) press release.
“However, the payments industry has lagged behind, relying on outdated systems and neglecting to integrate modern, secure technologies for seamless payment experiences,” the release said.
Traditional systems tend to use interactive voice response (IVR) technology and dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signals, which often fail to meet PCI compliance standards. These principles are critical for protecting customer data and ensuring secure transactions, according to the release.
The company said in the release that it is the first to debut a PCI-compliant telephone order (TO) AI-based system using voice rather than manual DTMF signal entry. This provides a smoother customer experience and improved security by preventing the errors and fraud risks associated with manual input. It also helps businesses make sure they’re securely processing payments and protecting customer data.
“Adding the ability for businesses to use AI for payments saves them a lot of time and money,” iWallet founder and CEO Jim Kolchin said in the release. “iWallet Voice AI also improves customer satisfaction and keeps the phone calls PCI-compliant and is a leap forward from the traditional automated systems.”
The PYMNTS Intelligence report “How the World Does Digital” found that 17.9% of the overall population uses voice technology for shopping at least once a week.
Cerence Chief Revenue Officer Christian Mentz told PYMNTS in an interview published in March that with the contextual awareness and natural language processing of the latest AI models, voice functionality has gone from being a “task master” service, simply surfacing information, to a more intuitive, human-like experience.
More recently, PYMNTS explored new research showing that AI systems can control computer interfaces through natural interaction. These agents can autonomously navigate software, carry out tasks and manipulate interfaces the same way humans do.
“This technology will change our relationship to software,” Clarity AI CEO and founder Joan Palmiter Bajorek told PYMNTS earlier this month. “For most people, speaking is one of the most natural ways of interacting with another person. … Instead of typing a prompt into ChatGPT, you could simply speak your request out loud.”
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Powerball numbers for Monday, Dec. 30, 2024; jackpot $163 million – cleveland.com
Monday's Powerball jackpot is an estimated $163 million.Powerball Lottery
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Powerball lottery has selected the winning numbers in its drawing for Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, for a jackpot estimated at $163 million.
The numbers are 9-19-33-38-39 Powerball 1 Power Play 3x. The next Powerball drawing is on New Year’s Day.
The Classic Lotto numbers are 29-30-37-42-44-45 Kicker 057975. The jackpot is $1.4 million for the drawing on New Year’s Day.
Monday’s winning Ohio Lottery numbers are:
Pick 3 evening: 098 (midday, 316)
Pick 4 evening: 6046 (midday, 4822)
Pick 5 evening: 26803 (midday, 96822)
Rolling Cash 5: 12-22-24-30-39
Pick 3 winners receive $500 for a $1 straight bet and the odds of winning are 1-in-1,000. Pick 4 winners receive $5,000 for a $1 straight bet and the odds of winning are 1-in-10,000.
The Rolling Cash 5 jackpot for the next drawing is $252,000 for hitting all five numbers and the odds of winning are 1-in-575,757.
Drawings for Pick 3, Pick 4 and Pick 5 are twice daily, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m. The drawing for the Rolling Cash 5 is each night at 7:35 p.m.
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The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked – Hackaday
There are a great many organizations out there, all with their own intentions—some selfish, some selfless, some that land somewhere in between. Most would put the Internet Archive in the category of the library—with its aim of preserving and providing knowledge for the aid of all who might call on it. Sadly, as [theresnotime] reports, it appears this grand institution has been hacked.
On Wednesday, users visiting the Internet Archive were greeted with a foreboding popup that stated the following:
Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!
The quote appears to refer to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a site that collates details of security breaches so individuals can check if their details have been compromised.
According to founder Brewster Kahle, the site was apparently DDOS’d, with the site defaced via a JavaScript library. It’s believed this may have been a polyfill supply chain attack. As for the meat of the hack, it appears the individuals involved made off with usernames, emails, and encrypted and salted passwords. Meanwhile, as Wired reports, it appears Have I Been Pwned first received the stolen data of 31 million users on September 30.
At the time of writing, it appears the Internet Archive has restored the website to some degree of normal operation. It’s sad to see one of the Internet’s most useful and humble institutions fall victim to a hack like this one. As is always the way, no connected machine is ever truly safe, no matter how much we might hope that’s not the case.
[Thanks to Sammy for the tip!]
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If there truly is a significant subculture of people out there fitting anything close to the media’s description of a ‘hacker’… I would think whoever did this would be a very juicy target now.
I hope some white hat hackers pwn the asses of the black hat hackers that attacked the internet archive.
Dunno why linking around to some other sites to load code is acceptable anyways.
“But JavaScript is safe, it cannot do any harm to your computer” said my college few days ago.
Indeed. And the vast majority of websites have no good reason to use scripting at all, much less the common horror of hundreds or thousands of Javascript libraries of uncertain provenance and quality.
Sites that use scripting to offer an improved UX should degrade gracefully if scripts are blocked, and should host scripts locally. Yes, that means you don’t get updates automatically; that’s a Good Thing. It’s the site maintainer’s responsibility to track updates to their dependencies, and promptly review them and install them if they’re legitimate.
Your Javascript framework has so many transitive dependencies that such an approach is infeasible? Then don’t use that framework. It’s not fit for purpose.
The software industry is a mess, and the quintessential example is the use of Javascript frameworks and libraries.
I use NoScript plugin and the number of websites that load as a completely blank screen until you allow JS is about 90%, which is about 89.9% too high for sanity.
It’s not the scripting itself, it’s the libraries and frameworks and crap that get complicated. It’s a pretty poor experience making a site perform actions purely by e.g. submitting forms with no javascript. (So that at least the server can run actual code and do something useful for a change) You can just barely do a few things you used to need scripts for by using modern CSS, but otherwise you’ll need at least a line or two of javascript from time to time. Well, unless you’re purely using the web for hosting documents you’ve marked up, but that’s not what most of these sites do anymore.
Why would anyone do this? If anything, everyone loves the IA..
Well, except maybe elsevier and wiley..
People with something to hide, that they want deleted off the (historical) internet.
After them scrubbing info for pay and the brain dead piracy nonsense, they’ve been compromised for years
Can’t say I feel bad for them
To whoever did this: It’s not funny.
Sorry, it was not intended to be a reply to your comment. My bad.
Anybody have a link to donate to them? I can’t load their website right now.
While it appears that the primary page for donations is unavailable, other options are listed in there FAQs with most alternative options listed here: https://help.archive.org/help/category/donations-2/page/2/
Well, let’s see motivations…MPA, RIAA, but I am not saying they did it.
I learned about archive by reading articles about famous people posting something they soon had to delete and pretend it was never said. But the archive already got them archived. So there is like millions of politicians or celebrities that would love to take back what they said (or did) in the past. And there are those uncomfortable events that took place but for reasons (better or worse) are better not reminded to public due to current events (that are also not really glorious).
I’ve used it for years, but TIL you could have an account on it.
Also, looking forwards to the reports that “the internet” has been hacked…
i mean, “the internet” is hacked, and has been for some time, in the sense that ISPs around the globe are beholden to various governments around the globe to make available all sorts of info including firehose of the traffic going through in some cases.
Screw the defacement, that was justified. But DDoS? Seriously? That’s just rude to all netizens.
A pox upon whoever did this.
a pox upon their house
Monkey- and chicken-. At the same time.
I’m assuming whoever did this is waiting for feedback. Okay here it is: it isn’t funny.
well now I’m happy to not have done password reuse for my account there.
And maybe, I’m hoping, this attack only had for goal of generating media coverage which would cause support for the Archive, considering they released directly everything: I too had the feeling described in the defacing message, that’s why I didn’t reuse any password there in the first place.
In some weird way it’s a blessing. IA will hopefully get more donations and archives will be secured even better. :V
Not really a big deal as my IA account was a throw away to borrow books. Not really sure who’s life would be ruined by this dump unless they reused their login combo (I gotta change the combination on my luggage!”) It is crappy someone decided to do this though. 🙁
One disturbing trend I have noticed in the old ISOs is a few goobers putting dodgy links to get said old files and not having them hosted on IA. It is basically an old skool dragon chase for an unzippable virus that just sets up a Dosbox VM of some ilk and executes its load from there. The one I tested contained a ransomware kinda thing that would encrypt the drive but hilariously like oldskool the password was the filename smh. I could not decide if whoever did it was being malicious or having a bit of fun, but reported it anyway as they had done a massive shitpost dump over the uploaders I know andor trust. I don’t think the two things are related at all but I had not seen such obvious poisoning of a collection like that before. I always wonder what will happen when linux repos get the proverbial hot tub shat. Anyway good to know I need to change my login stuff.
I imagine if you upload weird shit to it it’d be a problem, and more spam for your email
man the internet archive is so cool
when libraries get old digital resources, they often stumble on the software. some 1990 collection of scanned maps, originally distributed on 20 floppy disks, with an MSDOS program that doesn’t work anymore under windows 2024. i’m not saying archive.org is perfect at it by any stretch but they put a lot of work into distributing dosbox in a browser window or whatever hack is needed to still use the older digital content.
there’s definitely a huge need for a library taking on these tasks.
Yessssss! I was blown away when I learned about the software side of IA!
No one else is doing such work as this!
It is a valiant cause, important to us now, and arguably much more so for the future!
Did you know these archives and cache can be tampered with and just have data removed no reason after decades
willing to bet this is the feds. its an election year.
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Final preparations underway for New Year’s celebration at the Seattle Space Needle – FOX 13 Seattle
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One of the largest New Year’s Eve fireworks shows in North America is just a day away in Seattle!
SEATTLE – From California to New York and across the globe, New Year’s celebrations will be in full swing on Tuesday night and that includes right here at home. At the Seattle Space Needle, final preparations are underway with crews hard at work putting pyrotechnics and lights all over the needle.
FOX 13 was there on Monday and got a behind-the-scenes look at it all, and a chance to meet the people behind the show who make it come to life. This year marks the 40th New Year’s celebration, but the 30th with fireworks.
Watch clips of the Seattle Space Needle New Year’s Eve fireworks shows from the last few years.
Randy Cote, the chief marketing officer at the Seattle Space Needle, told FOX 13 this is one of the world’s largest structural fireworks shows and innovation is in the Space Needle’s DNA. You can expect to see some of that at this year’s Alaska Airlines New Year’s at the Needle.
"Even if you’ve seen the show before, we’re telling a different story in the sky with the drones and different effects, and of course the soundtrack reflects the different cultural moments of the past year, everything we’re celebrating coming off of 2024," Cote said.
The lights-only shows start at 10 p.m., and the full drone and fireworks spectacular gets underway just before midnight.
This will also be the final show for the firework designer Alberto Navarro, who has been a part of the show since its inception in 1994. After 30 years, he will be handing over the reins.
All of the festivities, live music and family events kick off at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
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As the world mourns the death of former President Jimmy Carter, misconceptions about his life are coming into focus as well.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married for 77 years, the longest-married presidential couple in American history.
Only two other presidents have won Grammy Awards, including Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
It’s a myth that the former president founded Habitat for Humanity — but the organization’s CEO certainly credits him with putting them on the map. “No one had ever seen a global leader behave like that."
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who was known for his enduring commitment to philanthropy and humanitarian work, died on Dec. 29, 2024, just short of two years in at-home hospice care. He was 100 years old.
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Video Accuses Honey Browser Extension of Shady Business Practices and We Found Some Truth to It – Snopes.com
Honey is a popular extension for web browsers that claims to scour the web for coupon codes, helping people find the best deals when shopping online. The extension also operates a reward points system, giving users a bit of cash back every time they make a purchase.
In 2018, after people wrote to Snopes asking whether the service was legitimate or too good to be true, we investigated and concluded that Honey was indeed legit — that is, it did provide consumers with discounts and rebates, as advertised. In 2019, PayPal purchased Honey for $4 billion.
More recently, in late December 2024, a wildly popular YouTube video reported otherwise. The video, uploaded to the YouTube channel MegaLag under the title “Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam,” reported what it characterized as shady business practices underlying the operation of the browser extension and labeled it a “scam.”
Snopes reached out to the creator of the video, MegaLag and PayPal for comment.
Explaining the video’s concerns about Honey requires an explanation of a common internet business model: affiliate links, or commission payments for online customer referrals. These links are the online equivalent of a salesperson’s business card. After buying a particular product, retailers might ask who helped you so they can credit that sale to a particular person. An affiliate link works the same way, albeit behind the scenes.
As an example, The New York Times’s product reviewing site, Wirecutter, makes money from affiliate links. Every Wirecutter story includes links to recommended products on online retail sites such as Amazon. Every time a consumer clicks one of those links, the online retailer notes that the consumer arrived at that page through Wirecutter — the equivalent of being handed a business card. Then, if the consumer decides to purchase the product, the retailer will ask the computer for the online business card so it can send a commission payment to Wirecutter.
Generally, the note is stored in the form of a cookie, which means the information is stored for a set amount of time, even if the browser is closed. That allows the affiliate to make money off the sale even if the consumer waits a few days to do more research before buying a product.
According to MegaLag’s video, interacting with the Honey pop-up on a checkout page to search for discounts or gain reward points also changes that affiliate cookie to direct the commission to Honey. This switch happens even if Honey does not find a discount or reward points.
Snopes independently confirmed in several tests that using Honey changed the affiliate cookie to a value indicating that Honey’s parent company, PayPal, would receive the commission. This fact has been confirmed by posts made on Honey’s official social media accounts and its FAQ, which currently reads that the company makes money “when a member uses Honey to find available savings or to activate PayPal Rewards.”
The video argues
Additionally, the video asserts that Honey does not always find users the best discounts, either. Despite the browser extension’s past advertising, the video showed multiple examples of Honey not presenting the best coupon codes to the consumer. Further supporting this claim is wording from Honey’s FAQ page for partner businesses and its terms of use agreement. According to the FAQ page, any business that has an official partnership with Honey (in order to partner, a business must pay Honey a 3% commission) can add or remove codes from the platform. Additionally, the following paragraphs can be found within Honey’s terms of use agreement:
While we try and find you the best available discounts and coupons, and to identify low prices, we may not always find you the best deal. PayPal is not responsible for any missed savings or rewards opportunities.
[…]
PayPal does not promise or guarantee that the product details, prices, coupon availability or other service terms, rates or rewards offered by any particular advertiser or other third party via our Service are the best prices, best terms or lowest rates available in the market.
The video’s creator — who has published other videos purporting to expose consumer scams — said these findings are just one part of his investigation and that he will continue to expose other questionable behavior on behalf of Honey and PayPal. Snopes will update this story if later videos contain more essential information.
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