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Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
TikTok made a last-ditch effort in the Supreme Court aimed at stopping the app’s ban that was set to take effect in a few days – but the platform’s arguments may have ‘failed’. Most justices appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban […]
Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
Culture TravelGreece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
Culture TravelTikTok, Reddit and Imgur are to be investigated by the UK’s data protection watchdog over how they use the personal information of teenage users. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it wants to look into how video-sharing app TikTok uses information from users aged 13 […]
TechnologySkype – once the dominant video calling service – has announced that it will shut down for good. The service boasted more than 300 million users at its peak, but the most recent figures Microsoft shared were in 2023, when it said it had more […]
TechnologyThe UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into tech giant Google. The company is being investigated for whether it has too much power in online search. Google accounts for 90% of online searches in the UK, and the Competition and Markets Authority is looking […]
TechnologyTikTok made a last-ditch effort in the Supreme Court aimed at stopping the app’s ban that was set to take effect in a few days – but the platform’s arguments may have ‘failed’. Most justices appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban […]
Technology USAThe US issued a strong appeal asking all American citizens to leave Haiti immediately. “Given the current security situation and infrastructure challenges, US citizens in Haiti should leave Haiti as soon as possible via commercial or private transportation,” the State Department said in a statement. […]
USAThe US issued a strong appeal asking all American citizens to leave Haiti immediately.
“Given the current security situation and infrastructure challenges, US citizens in Haiti should leave Haiti as soon as possible via commercial or private transportation,” the State Department said in a statement.
The department also recommended that US citizens exercise extreme caution when traveling across the country and avoid demonstrations and large gatherings of people.
In late July, Washington issued a “Do not travel to Haiti” warning citing kidnapping, crime, civil unrest and poor health care infrastructure.
The department also ordered the removal of family members of US government employees and non-emergency US government personnel.
Gang violence in recent years has plunged the Caribbean nation into an unprecedented crisis.
The gangs control 80% of the capital Port-au-Prince, which is home to 3 million people who are exposed to rape, torture and kidnapping.
Local nonprofit groups have documented 539 kidnappings since January. Since the beginning of this year, more than 2,400 people in Haiti have reportedly died in gang-related violence.Earlier this month, an American nurse and her daughter were released two weeks after being kidnapped in Haiti.
“Messi-mania” is giving the first results in MLS. Ticket prices for this Sunday’s match between Inter Miami and Los Angeles FC are the most expensive in the history of a Major League Soccer match. According to TickPick, average prices are around $690, a 527% increase […]
Sports USA“Messi-mania” is giving the first results in MLS.
Ticket prices for this Sunday’s match between Inter Miami and Los Angeles FC are the most expensive in the history of a Major League Soccer match.
According to TickPick, average prices are around $690, a 527% increase over the average MLS match ticket price, which was $110 before soccer superstar Leo Messi signed for David Beckham’s team.
With the game just two days away, the cheapest ticket to see Messi take on last year’s MLS Cup winners will cost $785. Without Messi, prices drop significantly, with the cheapest ticket for the following LAFC match being 80% cheaper, costing just $151, according to TickPick.
TickPick CEO Brett Goldberg told CNN that the market “is likely to stabilize prices at their current level, although there is potential for an upward price swing due to increased demand for tickets.”
Plus according to Goldberg, LAFC is one of the most popular teams in MLS, so demand is always high, while we also have one of the biggest athletes in the world coming to town.
Messi’s performances have regularly influenced ticket prices since he joined MLS. For last week’s game, in which Messi made his regular debut, the prices were almost 1000% higher than usual.
“Messi’s mania” extends beyond the field. Apple said subscriptions to its soccer streaming package have increased since Messi joined in July. And Adidas said demand for Messi’s shirt has been “truly unprecedented”, causing a backlog of orders until October.
Retailer Soccer.com told CNN last week that eight of the best-selling shirts on its website are linked to Messi, including his Argentina national team shirt and Inter Miami’s new shirt.
Inter Miami’s shirt is now the best-selling MLS club shirt in every US state except Vermont, while before Messi landed it was the best-selling shirt only in Florida.
A hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took X, formerly known as Twitter, offline in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning in an attempt to pressurise Elon Musk into launching his Starlink service in their country. X was down for more than two hours, […]
Technology UncategorizedA hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took X, formerly known as Twitter, offline in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning in an attempt to pressurise Elon Musk into launching his Starlink service in their country.
X was down for more than two hours, with thousands of users affected.
“Make our message reach to Elon Musk: ‘Open Starlink in Sudan’,” the hackers posted on Telegram.
X is the latest victim of the gang hacking to “benefit Sudan and Islam”.
Over several weeks of private conversations with the group on the chat app Telegram, the BBC spoke to the hackers about their methods and motives.
One member of the group, who calls himself Crush, told the BBC that Tuesday’s attack flooded X’s servers with huge amounts of traffic to take it offline – the same blunt and relatively unsophisticated hacking techniques for which the gang is known.
The outage-tracking site Downdetector said nearly 20,000 outage reports were logged by users in the US and the UK, with a far higher number of people likely to have been affected.
Another hacking group member – Hofa – said the so-called DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was aimed at raising awareness about the civil war in Sudan which is “making the internet very bad and it goes down quite often for us”.
X has not publicly acknowledged the disruption caused, and Mr Musk has not responded to questions to launch his satellite internet service in Sudan.
Anonymous Sudan has been accused by many in the cyber-security world of being a Russian cyber-military unit in disguise and causing cyber-chaos for the Kremlin under the cover of a foreign hacktivist outfit.
The theory stems from its online support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and an apparent alignment of motives with other hacking gangs in the country.
But the criminal group has repeatedly denied it is Russian, and for the first time shared evidence with the BBC that it is located in Sudan.
Crush, the group’s main spokesperson and key member, shared his live location on the Telegram app as proof.
Crush and Hofa also sent pictures of their Sudanese passports and other screenshots suggesting they are in Sudan.
These things can be faked with varying degrees of difficulty, but after weeks of conversation with the BBC and cyber-security researcher Intel Cocktail, there is nothing to suggest the hackers are lying.
“Our long-term goal is to show the world that Sudanese people, although with limited capabilities, have very good skills in many different fields,” said Crush.
In June, the gang posted a message of support for the Russian government to end an ongoing rebellion by the Wagner forces.
However, Crush explained that “a similar thing happened to our country and Russians stood with us so we wanted to pay them back”, referring to Russia’s support for the Sudanese government as it fights the ongoing civil war.
He insists that their group is made up of a “small number” of Sudanese hackers who are launching the attacks from the country in spite of regular internet outages.
Since it emerged in January, Anonymous Sudan has successfully disrupted dozens of organisations and government web services in France, Nigeria, Israel and the US.
For the past month the gang has attacked Kenya, claiming the country’s government is “meddling in Sudanese affairs”.
One attack heavily disrupted the country’s eCitizen portal used by the public to access more than 5,000 government services.
When challenged about the impacts on citizens, Crush defended the actions and said: “The reason we hit infrastructure is to teach the country and its rulers a lesson, and yes we have red lines, that is if our attacks harm a lot of innocents.”
However, the group has also unsuccessfully attacked hospitals.
The gang claims to be carrying out the criminal attacks to “defend the Truth, Islam and Sudan”, but on at least two occasions it has also tried to extort victims for Bitcoin.
It has also targeted websites like OnlyFans, Tumblr and Reddit, saying that they promote what it calls “disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ things”.
In June, the hackers celebrated when the US cyber-authority issued an official warning about a wave of attacks against American organisations which it warned “can cost an organisation time and money and may impose reputational costs while resources and services are inaccessible”.
Its most high-profile attack in June disrupted Microsoft services including Outlook and OneDrive, forcing the tech giant to issue a report with advice to customers on how to prevent being affected by the group.
Yevgeny Prigozhin is alive and his bodyguard has died in his place, according to a Russian political analyst, a few hours after the funeral of the leader of the “Wagner” mercenary group, which was not attended by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Commenting on […]
Politics UncategorizedYevgeny Prigozhin is alive and his bodyguard has died in his place, according to a Russian political analyst, a few hours after the funeral of the leader of the “Wagner” mercenary group, which was not attended by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Commenting on the absence of the Russian leader at Prigozhin’s funeral yesterday, Valery Solovey claims that the Wagner leader was not on the plane that crashed last week in Moscow.
As the British newspaper “Daily Mail” reports, the Russian analyst claims that the once-favorite chef and close ally of Putin is hiding in a foreign country for his own safety and that the powerful Kremlin leader is behind the downing of the plane last Wednesday in the Russian capital.
“Prigozin is alive and plans to take revenge on Putin after the death of his confidant and many of his close associates,” claims the Russian analyst, adding:
“He is in good health and free and will be found out within this year.”
However, it is not known in which country Prigozhin has taken refuge, Valery Soloway pointed out.
The Russian political analyst also accuses Moscow authorities of lying about finding Prigozhin’s DNA at the crash site in the Tver region.
“There was no explosion on the plane. It was shot down by a Moscow rocket.” he points out.
Dr. Soloway also stressed that the country in which Prigozhin is in exile will be revealed, but denied that he is in Africa where Wagner’s private army has many financial interests.
TikTok user @yorgoandlea shows in a video the steps to follow to learn what the network has taught us about our lives. In the video, she shows how entering Google search by writing ‘ad settings google’ is registered with her data, and then goes to […]
TechnologyTikTok user @yorgoandlea shows in a video the steps to follow to learn what the network has taught us about our lives.
In the video, she shows how entering Google search by writing ‘ad settings google’ is registered with her data, and then goes to a list where it can be seen that the network has registered your age, gender and the languages you can speak.
In the information it was seen that the woman was also interested in ‘architecture’ and ‘radio equipment’.
The video has been viewed tens of thousands of times and has been flooded with comments from people expressing surprise at how much data Google knew about them.
One person wrote: “Oh my God. I tried it too – so much information!”
Someone else commented: “And it was completely accurate.”
A third wrote: “That’s why I always remove these options.”
But there were others who checked for themselves and found that the information was incorrect.
One person said: “This says I’m 44+ when I’m only 19.”
Another ironically supported it: “Apparently I’m 65 years old and I’m interested in Utah and reality TV.”
As you may know, web search engines record information about all users, such as videos you watch, location, attached documents or advertisements known as ‘cookies’ and pretty much everything you click.
Google says that it does all this ‘so that the services are as good as possible for you’.
It explains that in this way services and advertisements are more specific for certain people (such as Search or YouTube), from partnerships with other networks or advertisers.
Google promises that it never sells your data but only ‘targets ads when you’re online’ – but without giving your information to advertising companies.
If you don’t like this, then everyone can choose to turn off the ‘ad personalisation’ option on the Google network – which you can find on the same ad settings page where your information is personal.
For 17 years, the scientific community has been trying to shed light on the mystery of five members of the Ulas family in southeastern Turkey who walk on all four limbs. The Kurdish family lives in isolation in a remote corner of Turkey. However, some […]
Culture LifeStyle What's HotFor 17 years, the scientific community has been trying to shed light on the mystery of five members of the Ulas family in southeastern Turkey who walk on all four limbs.
The Kurdish family lives in isolation in a remote corner of Turkey. However, some of its members seem to have put a “shield” on three million years of human evolution. Initially, Turkish scientists spoke of evidence of “regressive evolution”.
Of the 19 children born to Rezi and Hatis, who walk straight, five brothers walk with all four limbs, write the newspapers “Daily Express” and “Daily Mirror”. At first researchers thought it was a throwback to the evolution of standing.
But unlike the primates from which humans evolved, the Ulas brothers don’t use their fist to walk, but their palm like monkeys do. Some scientists have described their condition as “regressive”, prompting criticism from other experts who argue it is a combination of “genetic” factors.
Sisters Safiye, Hacer, Senem and Emine as well as their brother Hüseyin have received disparaging comments from villagers in the southern Turkish province of Xatay (near the border with Syria). The family had a total of six children who walked on all four legs, but one died at the age of five.
Family members may be the missing link between humans and apes, scientists say.
Those who walk on all fours are harassed by the wider environment and therefore, mostly women, prefer to move near their home.
Although they did not go to school, they managed to learn the Kurdish language to communicate with other family members. For more than 20 years, the family’s existence remained hidden, until two British scientists came across an unpublished paper by a Turkish professor in 2005.
The FBI and European law enforcement agencies say they have taken down a massive network of hacked computers that were used to defraud thousands of people out of millions of dollars. The Department of Justice seized over $8 million in cryptocurrencies from hackers and removed […]
TechnologyThe FBI and European law enforcement agencies say they have taken down a massive network of hacked computers that were used to defraud thousands of people out of millions of dollars.
The Department of Justice seized over $8 million in cryptocurrencies from hackers and removed the code from an unspecified number of “hacked” computers in the US and around the world.
“This is a serious blow to the Russian-speaking hacking gang’s Qakbot hacking application, which has been causing harm to people and government agencies around the world for years,” a spokesperson for the Department said.
The operation can be considered the latest achievement in the FBI’s aggressive efforts to crack down on known hacking tools that allow cybercriminals to take millions of dollars out of Americans’ pockets.
“This is a concerted effort to target services that other cybercriminals are using around the globe,” a senior FBI official said in an interview.
The tool the FBI targeted in this case, known as a botnet, is an army of infected computers that hackers often use for a variety of scams. It’s an inexpensive way to amass digital power that can knock critical services like schools or healthcare providers offline.
Qakbot has been active for about 15 years, but the use of the tool by gangs of hackers seeking ransom added urgency to law enforcement efforts to penetrate the group’s infrastructure.The investigation culminated late last week, when the FBI redirected the botnet’s Internet traffic through computer servers controlled by the bureau and then issued commands to some infected computers to uninstall the malicious software.
Novak Djokovic will replace young rival Carlos Alcaraz as the men’s world number one after a routine win on his US Open return. Serbia’s Djokovic, who lost the Wimbledon final to Alcaraz, won 6-0 6-2 6-3 against France’s Alexandre Muller in Monday’s night session in […]
Sports USANovak Djokovic will replace young rival Carlos Alcaraz as the men’s world number one after a routine win on his US Open return.
Serbia’s Djokovic, who lost the Wimbledon final to Alcaraz, won 6-0 6-2 6-3 against France’s Alexandre Muller in Monday’s night session in New York.
Djokovic, 36, was not allowed to play in the United States last year because he was not vaccinated against Covid-19.
He has returned knowing another title will be a record-equalling 24th major.
Matching Australian Margaret Court’s all-time tally is Djokovic’s target and he made a statement start by breezing past 84th-ranked Muller.
“I started tremendously well, we started quite late but nevertheless I was excited to go out on the court – it has been a couple of years,” said Djokovic, who will spend a record-extending 390th week at the top of the ATP rankings.
“In the second and third sets I dropped the level of my serve and I had to work for the points a bit more. Nevertheless I played great and I liked the level.”
Having not started until 23:00 local time, the three-time US Open champion showed he did not want to hang around and only dropped eight points in a 23-minute opening set.
A smiling Muller raised both arms in celebration when he finally got on the scoreboard for 2-1 in the second set but the 26-year-old could not stop Djokovic from moving further ahead.
Muller offered more resistance in the third set before Djokovic won the final four games to wrap up victory in one hour and 34 minutes.
Djokovic, who won the Australian Open and French Open earlier this year, is aiming for a fourth title at Flushing Meadows and will play Spain’s Bernabe Zapata Miralles in the second round. He will return to world number one after the tournament.
Top seed Alcaraz, 20, won his first major at the US Open in Djokovic’s absence last year and starts the defence of his crown against Germany’s Dominik Koepfer on Tuesday.
Alcaraz and Djokovic are the joint favourites for the men’s singles title having developed a fascinating rivalry over the past 12 months.
It was bubbling at the start of the season but without both present at key tournaments there was little chance for the pair to go toe-to-toe on the court.
Now the match-up has ignited over the past few months following three compelling contests in the French Open semi-finals, the Wimbledon showpiece and this month’s Cincinnati final.
Alcaraz and Djokovic cannot meet at the US Open until the final as a result of being the top two seeds.
The places of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Champions League are in danger because of the scandal of Luis Rubiales. The Spanish FA has asked European governing body UEFA to consider banning clubs over the Spanish government’s interference in the ongoing World Cup ‘Kiss-Gate’ […]
SportsThe places of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Champions League are in danger because of the scandal of Luis Rubiales. The Spanish FA has asked European governing body UEFA to consider banning clubs over the Spanish government’s interference in the ongoing World Cup ‘Kiss-Gate’ saga.
The request was made by the right wing of Rubiales, Andreu Camps, who has “opened a war” against their government, as the latter have demanded the resignation of Rubiales. Camps defended the president, arguing that with these calls the government is interfering in the Federation and this is strictly forbidden by UEFA and FIFA. And this threat does not only endanger Real Madrid or Barcelona, but also Atletico Madrid and Real Sociedad), the Europa League (Villarreal and Real Betis) and the Europa Conference League (Osasuna).
Meanwhile, as Luis Rubiales refuses to resign, the local media write that the fact that UEFA has not yet spoken about this scandal is because their president Alexander Ceferin is very close friends with the head of the Spanish Federation. Consequently, it is easy to understand that UEFA has no plans to take action against the Spanish teams, at least not at the moment.
“Barbie” is currently the highest-grossing movie of the year, but it looks like its reign will end very soon. The movie “Gran Turismo” has started very well and in its first weekend it earned 17.3 million dollars, while “Barbie” had collected 17.1. It seems that […]
Entertainment“Barbie” is currently the highest-grossing movie of the year, but it looks like its reign will end very soon.
The movie “Gran Turismo” has started very well and in its first weekend it earned 17.3 million dollars, while “Barbie” had collected 17.1.
It seems that this film, starring Orlando Bloom David Harbor and Archie Madekwe, will be the first in terms of total profits in cinemas around the world.”Gran Turismo,” which is based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a teenager obsessed with the video game of the same name who became a real-life pilot, was produced on a budget of $60 million.
The true story of a team of unlikely underdogs — a working-class gamer, a former race-car driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive — who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world.