Protesters in Washington, D.C., have gathered at the Russian embassy to protest the country’s invasion of Ukraine early on Thursday morning. The protesters gathered outside the Russian embassy after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is green lighting a “special
Day: February 24, 2022
Laura Ingraham Calls Ukrainian President’s Plea For Peace ‘Pathetic’
“We had kind of a really pathetic display from the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, earlier today … where he in Russian ― he didn’t like to speak Russian ― but in Russian, he was essentially imploring Vladimir Putin not to invade
Specify automagically collects, stores and distributes your design tokens and assets
Meet Specify, a startup that is creating a common language for Figma and GitHub. Specify acts as a central repository and API for your design tokens and assets. In other words, designers can update canonical Figma files, and changes will
Justice Department Appoints First Director of National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) earlier this week appointed Eun Young Choi to serve as the first Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) it established last year. The NCET was created to tackle the criminal misuse of
Courting G.O.P.’s Mainstream and Extreme, McCarthy Plots Rise to Speaker
Last month, he defended the Republican National Committee after it passed a resolution to censure Ms. Cheney and the other Republican member of the Jan. 6 committee, Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois; the resolution said they were involved in the
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores claims he was offered money to keep quiet after firing
Flores’ attorneys, Doug Wigdor and John Elefterakis, joined him on the show. “I think just signing that separation agreement would have really silenced me,” Flores said. When asked by Gumbel how much money he left on the table by not
Jeffrey Katzenberg backs the $10M Seed round for HUBUC’s embedded finance API
I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fund-raising in the space. There’s now yet another example of this trend in the shape of HUBUC. Billing itself as “AWS for financial services” the
PseudoManuscrypt Malware Spreading the Same Way as CryptBot Targets Koreans
Numerous Windows machines located in South Korea have been targeted by a botnet tracked as PseudoManuscrypt since at least May 2021 by employing the same delivery tactics of another malware called CryptBot. “PseudoManuscrypt is disguised as an installer that is
Photos: Alia Bhatt looks beautiful in a white suit at the screening of Gangubai Kathiawadi
The makers of Gangubai Kathiawadi organized a special screening of the movie ahead of its release. The movie’s lead actor Alia Bhatt looked gorgeous as she arrived at the screening of her upcoming film. Alia was dressed in a white
Texas mall shooting leaves off-duty constable, suspect dead
An off-duty law enforcement officer was killed Wednesday while working a side job at a Houston shopping mall when a suspect grabbed his firearm and fatally shot him, authorities said. The suspect was later killed as well. The gunfire occurred at the PlazAmericas Mall on the
As brands clamour to back causes, Good-Loop raises $6M for its view-to-donate ad platform
Online advertising is generally terrible and our expectation that ‘information should be free’ has tragically even ended up powering disinformation-filled social networks like Facebook. Many companies have tried and failed to turn advertising into a way to power good causes.
New Wiper Malware Targeting Ukraine Amid Russia's Military Operation
Cybersecurity firms ESET and Broadcom’s Symantec said they discovered a new data wiper malware used in fresh attacks against hundreds of machines in Ukraine, as Russian forces formally launched a full-scale military operation against the country. The Slovak company dubbed
Civilian flights restricted in Ukraine
Civilian flights within Ukraine were restricted through the end of Thursday, according to a notice to airmen. Airlines including Qatar Airways, Wizz Air, Turkish Airlines and others had cancelled Kyiv flights scheduled for Thursday. The flights were restricted “due to
Fact check: The various flavors of dishonesty that GOP candidates used to promote 2020 election lies this month
Some of these candidates are just plain lying that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump or was rife with massive fraud. Others are professing to be merely asking questions. Still others are walking an evasive tightrope,
QuantrolOx uses machine learning to control qubits
QuantrolOx, a new startup that was spun out of Oxford University last year, wants to use machine learning to control qubits inside of quantum computers. The company, which was co-founded by Oxford professor Andrew Briggs, tech entrepreneur Vishal Chatrath, the