Month: January 2023

In this week’s newsletter: American officials have for years been struck by a mystery illness on diplomatic visits. One journalist investigates why in The Sound. Plus: five of the best anthology podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The Sound: Mystery of Havana SyndromeWidely available, episodes …

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UK entrepreneur says economic strategy has left Britain in a ‘Covid inertia’ and calls for growth plan Sir James Dyson, the billionaire businessperson, has launched a withering attack on Rishi Sunak’s government, saying its “shortsighted” and “stupid” economic policies have left the country in a state of “Covid inertia”. The founder of the eponymous vacuum …

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It has introduced facial recognition, but does not recognise me NatWest recently introduced biometric approval on its app for transactions such as payments to a new account. It requires customers to look into the phone and blink (presumably to show we’re alive and not corpses propped up in front of the camera by some fraudster). …

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Highlights of the sale following Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of the company include kegerators and a planter What do you get the tech fan who has everything? Perhaps a statue of Twitter’s bright-blue logo, for a mere $100,000. That’s what the priciest item went for at an auction of the company’s office supplies, according to …

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Everyone from awkward boyfriends to supposedly nefarious fiances are being held to account. The jurors? A million deranged zoomers If I was a more dedicated podcast listener, I am certain I would be a nutter for true crime, a genre with which I share many core values: a zeal for prying into the lives of …

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UK security minister Tom Tugendhat warns of ‘persistent threat’ of Russian attacks on country’s infrastructure Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates Ukraine has suffered a threefold growth in cyber-attacks over the past year, with Russian hacking at times deployed in combination with missile strikes, according to a senior figure in the country’s cybersecurity agency. The …

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PC, Mac, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch (version played); Mojiken Studio/Toge ProductionsThe story of Atma and his reality-warping girlfriend Raya demonstrates a flair for the dramatic and will keep you guessing right up to the end The video game charts tend to be dominated by titles from US, European and Japanese studios, and as such …

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Prosecutors allege Anatoly Legkodymov’s company became a ‘safe haven’ for proceeds of criminal activity A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange that the justice department says became a haven for the proceeds of criminal activity has been arrested, federal officials said on Wednesday. Anatoly Legkodymov, who lives in China, was arrested on Tuesday night …

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Former president’s lawyers petition company to allow access following ban from platform in wake of 2021 Capitol attack Donald Trump has petitioned Meta to restore his access to Facebook, as he reportedly looks to shift his 2024 presidential campaign into a higher gear. The former president was banned from Facebook more than two years ago, …

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Tesla investor seeks ‘billions’ in damages on behalf of shareholders who traded stock after Musk posted plan to take company private Opening arguments are set to begin on Wednesday in a shareholder case against the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, over a 2018 tweet that declared funding was “secured” to take the company private damaged shareholders. …

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