The news agency has since deleted the tweet promoting the sale and called it ‘poor choice of imagery’ The Associated Press has withdrawn plans to sell a video “of migrants drifting in an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean” as an NFT after facing a backlash online. The news outlet’s Thursday tweet advertising the clip, which …
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Cybersecurity firm seeks volunteers to help nation’s military conduct espionage operations against Russian forces The government of Ukraine is asking for volunteers from the country’s hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops, according two people involved in the project. As Russian forces attacked cities across Ukraine, requests …
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Kimbal Musk sold Tesla shares the day before his brother asked Twitter if he should sell The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether recent stock sales by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, and his brother Kimbal Musk “violated insider trading rules”, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with …
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UK government and banks on alert for new form of malware said to have infected hundreds of machines Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news Cyber experts have identified a new strain of computer-disabling malware unleashed on Ukrainian targets as part of Russia’s offensive, as the UK government and banks said they were on alert for online attacks. …
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The series on the rise and fall of Uber’s hard-charging, grandiose CEO Travis Kalanick, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, gets too high on its own supply One of the side effects of watching a recent history true-scam show like Super Pumped, the high-octane, wearisome Showtime anthology series whose first season tracks the rise and fall of …
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Heather Morgan, the wannabe Tiktok and hip-hop star, and her husband allegedly stole $4.5bn worth of cryptocurrency Heather Morgan is free, for now. The 31-year-old fraudster was offered bail on Valentine’s Day, releasing her from incarceration while her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Liechtenstein, remains in federal bondage. Morgan is at the centre of a psychedelic cryptocurrency …
Report comes as Ukraine faces cyber-attack and allies brace for state-sponsored hacks A cyber report published by intelligence agencies in the UK and US on Wednesday has attributed insidious new malware to a notorious Russia-backed hacking group. The findings come amid concerns of potential Russian cyber-attacks against Ukraine as the threat of war in the …
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PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series S/Series X; FromSoftware/Namco BandaiThis is a massive world, astonishingly rendered and seemingly limitless in its creative diversity Under a butter-yellow sky, high up on the Altus Plain, driving my horse at full gallop, I spied a group of peasant women dancing. They hopped between feet, as if on scorching ground, …
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