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News live: Russian hacker sanctioned; China blames Australia for jet flare encounter
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:40:23 GMT
Dmitry Khoroshev banned from country for his alleged leadership role in the LockBit ransomware group. Follow today’s news live
Good morning and welcome to the rolling news blog. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you a few of the top overnight stories before Emily Wind comes along shortly.
An alleged leader of international ransomware group LockBit has been hit with financial sanctions and banned from travelling to Australia. The government named Dmitry Khoroshev, a Russian citizen, as having a “senior leadership role” in a criminal group that supplied a global network of hackers with the tools and infrastructure to carry out online attacks. The announcement was made overnight in co-ordination with authorities in the UK and the US. More coming up.
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NASA Challenge Gives Artemis Generation Coders a Chance to Shine
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:16:41 +0000
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge (ADC), one of the agency’s Artemis Student Challenges, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from April 15-18, 2024. The coding challenge, celebrating its fifth year and a part of NASA’s Next Generation STEM […]
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Australia bans alleged Russian leader of global ransomware group LockBit
Tue, 07 May 2024 18:00:14 GMT
Dmitry Khoroshev named as having a ‘senior role’ in the group allegedly behind 18% of reported Australian ransomware attacks in 2022-23
An alleged leader of international ransomware group LockBit has been hit with financial sanctions and banned from travelling to Australia.
The Australian government named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, a Russian citizen, as having a “senior leadership role” in a criminal group that supplied a global network of hackers with the tools and infrastructure to carry out online attacks.
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Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars
Tue, 07 May 2024 15:43:38 +0000
Today, Ken Carpenter is a scientist for NASA’s Hubble and Roman space telescopes, but in 1967 he was just a teenager at his local library out to fact-check a “Star Trek” episode. Name: Kenneth G. CarpenterTitle: Operations Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope; Ground System Scientist for Roman Space Telescope; and a NASA Innovative Advanced […]
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Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t | Arwa Mahdawi
Tue, 07 May 2024 15:18:43 GMT
Trump’s disgraced former attorney somehow frittered away almost $120,000 in January. As a cash-strapped millennial, I’m delighted to share some money-saving tips
‘Bankruptcy” is a surprisingly amorphous term. For poor people, it means not having any money. For corporations and the super-wealthy it means a nifty legal strategy that can shield their riches from lawsuits. And for Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former mayor of New York City and personal attorney of Donald Trump, it means being forced to try to subsist on a measly $43,000 (£34,200) a month.
Half a million dollars in spending money a year might seem a princely sum to the common man, but “Sir” Rudy (recipient of an honorary knighthood) is anything but. We’re talking about a gentleman with elevated tastes here: a bon vivant who, during a legal battle with his estranged third wife, was accused of spending $7,000 on fountain pens and $12,000 on cigars over a five-month period. In that same timeframe, his ex-wife’s lawyer claimed he spent $286,000 on his alleged lover, $165,000 on personal travel and $447,938 “for his own enjoyment”. That’s a lot of enjoyment.
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Here’s why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually matters
Tue, 07 May 2024 13:09:05 +0000
Polaris Dawn will be the first time that SpaceX employees have actually gone to space.
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From holidays to shopping: eight discounts for UK over-60s you might not know about
Tue, 07 May 2024 07:00:04 GMT
It’s still the magic milestone when senior citizenship begins … with a host of money-saving offers to take advantage of
The UK state pension age has risen but many companies and organisations still hold on to “the big 6-0” as the point at which senior citizenship begins, and it continues to represent a money-saving milestone as a result.
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Why clubbers are raving about Germany’s cross-country Techno Train
Tue, 07 May 2024 06:00:03 GMT
With DJs, bouncers and bars, the Nuremberg train offers a complete clubbing experience for hundreds of ‘clubbers’– and some lovely views of the Bavarian countryside …
‘Do you ever get seasick?” Timm Schirmer, a 27-year-old DJ with a fabulous blond moustache, asks me shortly before we board the Techno Train. “When you’re dancing on the train it can feel like you’re at sea, because you can’t always see that you’re moving.” Worryingly, I have indeed spent many a past holiday retching on boats. But Timm’s question comes after I’ve paid €100 for a non-refundable ticket for what social media suggests is the most intense train ride in Europe. I knew it wouldn’t be plain sailing.
Launched in 2019 by the Nuremberg nightclub Haus 33, for whom Tim DJs, the Techno Train runs twice a year and has only two official stops: the start and the finish. We depart Nuremberg’s Frankenstadion station at 4pm and travel about 100km west towards the city of Würzburg, then loop back and pull into Nuremberg Central Station at 11pm.
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Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test
Mon, 06 May 2024 19:18:33 +0000
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress rehearsal on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and has been aboard the International Space Station twice. She is set to return to […]
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5 Best French Presses (2024): Plastic, Glass, Stainless Steel, Travel
Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The humble French press is affordable, effective, and hard to mess up. Here are our favorites to make your morning cup of coffee.
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NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:34:07 +0000
Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.
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‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:42:56 GMT
The far right are on the march in Germany and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has become the most popular party in several states. Immigration and a sense of being economically left behind have been driving factors in the rise in popularity but the Green party and the federal government’s climate policies have also borne the brunt of public anger. The Guardian travelled to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right
• How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks in Germany
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Tell us: are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:35:57 GMT
We’d like to hear from people who have been purchasing luxury goods and experiences in recent years, and how they feel about their spending habits
We’re interested to hear about people’s spending habits in the area of upmarket or luxury goods, services and experiences, and whether they are generally happy with their spending on non-essentials.
We’d like to know whether you have spent money on expensive non-essential items such as designer clothing, high end housewares, luxury holidays, expensive beauty or wellness treatments, or exclusive dining, for instance, in the past year, and if so, whether you have struggled to afford this.
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QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate.
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House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:18:48 +0000
A measure passed by the House seeks to block Americans from traveling to Iran on U.S. passports.
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NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:40 +0000
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.
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Bookkeeping with a bang: Manchester’s stage spectacular The Accountants – in pictures
Tue, 07 May 2024 08:22:02 GMT
A world premiere presented by Factory International, The Accountants combines one tale of two auditing firms with another of friends who have connected British Indian and British Chinese heritages
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News live: Russian hacker sanctioned; China blames Australia for jet flare encounter
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:40:23 GMT
Dmitry Khoroshev banned from country for his alleged leadership role in the LockBit ransomware group. Follow today’s news live
Good morning and welcome to the rolling news blog. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you a few of the top overnight stories before Emily Wind comes along shortly.
An alleged leader of international ransomware group LockBit has been hit with financial sanctions and banned from travelling to Australia. The government named Dmitry Khoroshev, a Russian citizen, as having a “senior leadership role” in a criminal group that supplied a global network of hackers with the tools and infrastructure to carry out online attacks. The announcement was made overnight in co-ordination with authorities in the UK and the US. More coming up.
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Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:22:10 +0000
Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up.
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Serbia prepares warm welcome for Xi in contrast to China-EU tensions
Tue, 07 May 2024 16:03:30 GMT
Chinese president hails two countries’ friendship before his arrival, after visiting Pyrenees with Macron
Chinese flags adorned highways as Serbia got ready to give a home-from-home welcome to Xi Jinping, contrasting tensions on the first leg of the Chinese president’s six-day European tour over a potential trade war with the EU.
Xi prepared for his arrival in Belgrade on Tuesday night by hitting out against Nato for its 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in the Serbian capital, in which three Chinese journalists were killed.
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China angles for Gaza mediation role to expand influence in Middle East
Tue, 07 May 2024 14:54:46 GMT
Beijing joins France in urging Israel against Rafah offensive in latest effort to make its diplomatic mark
Xi Jinping, sensing a diplomatic opening, is stepping up China’s intervention in the Middle East crisis, issuing a joint statement with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to urge Israel not to go ahead with an offensive in Rafah.
The rare moment of Sino-European synergy is the latest effort by China to make its diplomatic mark in a region in which it has deep economic interests, but more shallow diplomatic moorings.
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China’s Xi Jinping to head for Serbia on second day of Europe visit – as it happened
Tue, 07 May 2024 14:02:00 GMT
Chinese premier has lunch with Emmanuel Macron before heading to Serbia on his closely watched trip to Europe. This live blog is closed
China hacked UK ministry: report
The Chinese state has hacked the British ministry of defence, Sky News reported this morning.
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China accuses Australian navy helicopter of flying near airspace in ‘provocative move’
Tue, 07 May 2024 13:32:27 GMT
Foreign ministry says Chinese jet pilot took ‘necessary measures at the scene’ after Australia claimed flares were released in front of helicopter
China’s foreign ministry has accused an Australian navy helicopter of deliberately flying “within close range” of Chinese airspace in a “provocative move” in the latest military altercation between the two nations.
The Australian government said China released flares in front of the helicopter in the Yellow Sea as HMAS Hobart participated in an operation to enforce United Nations sanctions against North Korea.
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Why are the world’s cities sinking? - podcast
Tue, 07 May 2024 04:00:05 GMT
A study has found that more than two dozen US coastal cities are sinking by more than 2mm a year. It’s a similar picture across the world. Nearly half of China’s major cities, as well as places such as Tehran and Jakarta, are facing similar problems. These issues are compounded by sea level rises caused by global heating. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech University and Prof Robert Nicholls of the University of East Anglia to find out what’s making our cities sink and whether anything can be done to rescue them from the sea
Clips: Global News, CNBC, WRDW
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U.S. soldier detained in Russia on criminal charges
Tue, 07 May 2024 00:23:58 +0000
A U.S. soldier, identified as Gordon Black, was detained by Russian authorities in Vladivostok, near the borders with China and North Korea, officials said.
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China’s Xi Jinping visits France in first post-pandemic trip to Europe
Mon, 06 May 2024 15:21:48 +0000
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is visiting France, and the friendlier countries of Hungary and Serbia. Trade tensions and Russia’s war in Ukraine are on the agenda.
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Europe live: China’s Xi Jinping calls for closer ties with the EU at opening of Paris talks – as it happened
Mon, 06 May 2024 14:19:52 GMT
Chinese premier meets Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen for talks, with trade and Ukraine on agenda
The trilateral meeting has kicked off.
Xi Jinping has arrived at the Élysée palace.
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Xi’s European tour: where is Chinese leader going and what are visit’s aims?
Mon, 06 May 2024 13:49:46 GMT
Emmanuel Macron and Viktor Orbán among leaders Xi is meeting, with several key issues on the table
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has begun a three-country tour of Europe – his first state visit to the continent in five years – at a time when China-EU ties are under strain from trade disputes and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Canberra accuses Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares dangerously close to Australian helicopter
Mon, 06 May 2024 09:32:49 GMT
Defence minister Richard Marles says protests made to Beijing over ‘unacceptable’ altercation that forced pilot on UN mission to avoid being hit
The federal government has accused a Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares dangerously close to an Australian helicopter on a United Nations mission in international waters.
The Australian defence minister, Richard Marles, branded the incident “unacceptable”.
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From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack
Thu, 02 May 2024 21:15:55 +0000
University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.
The post From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack appeared first on The Intercept.
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Election 2024 latest news: Biden decries antisemitism in speech; Indiana holding primaries
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:51:50 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Three Republicans running for chance to challenge incumbent Democrat in Indiana’s 1st District
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:45:10 +0000
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Pakistan Super League may poach county cricketers after schedule change
Tue, 07 May 2024 18:09:22 GMT
- Extra overseas slots to open up in first months of Championship
- Clubs can in theory block homegrown talent from joining league
English counties face losing more of their leading homegrown talents during the first two months of next season – and potentially in years to come – amid a proposal for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) to run concurrently with the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The 10-team IPL is the only franchise T20 league to overlap with the start of the County Championship in April and May, with this year’s edition seeing 12 English players among the 80 overseas slots – fewer than one for each county.
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Analysis: What we’re watching in Indiana
Tue, 07 May 2024 15:16:26 +0000
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Kedgeree and lamb curry: Tamal Ray’s recipes for homely favourites
Tue, 07 May 2024 07:00:03 GMT
A riff on kedgeree featuring roast aubergines and peas, and a rich and smoky lamb curry
This week, I bring you two approaches to weeknight dinner. First, a new take on kedgeree that’s swiftly put together and swaps the traditional boiled eggs for roast aubergines. Kedgeree was the invention of the British in colonial India, but was inspired by khichuri, a more ancient dish of rice and lentils, so here I’ve reinstated the pulses in the form of mung dal and peas: an Indian dish, adapted by the British, and changed again by an Indian living in Britain. The other dish is a smoky lamb curry that I often make ahead at the weekend – it freezes really well and makes for a bowl of richly spiced comfort to come home to.
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Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test
Mon, 06 May 2024 19:18:33 +0000
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress rehearsal on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and has been aboard the International Space Station twice. She is set to return to […]
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Improper ‘shadow’ ads thriving on Facebook during India’s election
Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Many political ads on Facebook in India hide their true buyers, according to civil society groups and recent studies, threatening the integrity of the process.
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How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast
Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:28 GMT
Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away. By Romita Saluja
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In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests
Sat, 04 May 2024 20:11:18 +0000
The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban.
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The Beautifully Unnerving Gaze of “Evil Does Not Exist”
Fri, 03 May 2024 22:20:45 +0000
The Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi follows his Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” with a hauntingly ambiguous drama of nature and capitalism in conflict.
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A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news.
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India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video
Sat, 04 May 2024 08:30:41 GMT
Congress party’s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah
Indian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the country’s main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national election.
Arun Reddy of the Congress party was detained late on Friday in connection with the edited footage, which falsely shows India’s powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, vowing in a campaign speech to end affirmative action policies for millions of poor and low-caste Indians.
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‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites
Sat, 04 May 2024 05:00:35 GMT
Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom
Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.
For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called dakhma, or “towers of silence”. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of earth, fire and water, from being contaminated by corpses.
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Canadian police charge three over killing of Sikh activist
Fri, 03 May 2024 21:28:50 GMT
Prime minister said there were ‘credible allegations’ that India was behind killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Canadian police have charged three members of an alleged hit team for their role in the assassination of the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the first arrests in a high-profile killing that officials believe was masterminded by India.
The arrests come nearly a year after the prominent activist was killed in the parking lot of the Guru Nanak Sikh gurdwara on the evening of 18 June in the city of Surrey, British Columbia. In what investigators previously described as a carefully orchestrated operation, two assailants fired about 50 bullets at Nijjar and escaped the area in a grey car.
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Floods and landslide kill more than a dozen people in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
Sat, 04 May 2024 06:29:32 GMT
Officials say a landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday after torrential rain pounded the area
A flood and a landslide have hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people, according to officials.
The landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday just after 1am local time, Abdul Muhari, spokesperson of Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), said in a statement.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-Comfort Movie
Thu, 02 May 2024 20:38:15 +0000
“The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.
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“The Contestant” Is More Than a Cautionary Tale
Thu, 02 May 2024 19:46:07 +0000
The new Hulu documentary charts the rise of one of the earliest reality-TV stars and the ethically queasy production choices that cemented his fame—but it’s elevated by its interest in what came afterward.
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‘It was terrifying but screw it’: the director who had to disown her film to qualify for the Oscars
Tue, 07 May 2024 14:53:22 GMT
Tiger Stripes, about a girl who turns into a jungle cat when her periods start, was chosen by Malaysia as its Oscar entry. But they wanted cuts. Amanda Nell Eu relives a ‘painful and comedic’ experience
The director Amanda Nell Eu has always been a bit of a rebel, she says over video chat from her home in Kuala Lumpur. “When I was a teenager, I was sometimes labelled a monster by my parents and teachers. I probably wasn’t the most obedient child.” Now Eu has turned the horrors of puberty into an actual horror movie. Tiger Stripes is her feature debut, a funny and political film with a whopping air punch of girl power. Set in a conservative Muslim school, it mixes body horror with Mean Girls energy and a sprinkle of Malaysian folklore.
Eu cast her trio of leading girls during lockdown, putting adverts on Instagram and searching through TikTok profiles: “Schools were shut, everything was shut.” Zafreen Zairizal plays 12-year-old Zaffan, a rebel who is constantly yanking off her headscarf and daringly wears a bra to school. Zaffan’s body is changing: hairs sprout and spots erupt. Then, when she becomes the first girl in class to get her period, she’s ostracised by her two best friends. “You’re dirty now,” adds her mother.
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How Fat Leonard compromised admirals in charge of Navy intelligence
Tue, 07 May 2024 10:00:02 +0000
Book excerpt: The Malaysian con man tempted admirals Ted “Twig” Branch and Bruce Loveless with cigars, meals and women — creating a counterintelligence disaster
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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
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Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.
The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 34 Score: 17.14 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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Scotland lose final & will face England in T20 World Cup
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:01:55 GMT
Scotland will face England at this autumn’s Women’s T20 World Cup as they lose against Sri Lanka in the final of the ICC qualifier.
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Ask Amy: I’ve lied about being a Vietnam War veteran for 50 years
Tue, 07 May 2024 04:00:00 +0000
After 50 years of lying about serving in the Vietnam war, this letter writer is ready to come clean.
Match ID: 36 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:03:19 GMT
Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Niño
Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperatures, with unusually hot weather forcing schools to close and threatening public health.
Thousands of schools across the Philippines, including in the capital region Metro Manila, have suspended in-person classes. Half of the country’s 82 provinces are experiencing drought, and nearly 31 others are facing dry spells or dry conditions, according to the UN, which has called for greater support to help the country prepare for similar weather events in the future. The country’s upcoming harvest will probably be below average, the UN said.
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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:13:46 +0000
China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
Match ID: 38 Score: 11.43 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
Match ID: 39 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction
Tue, 07 May 2024 17:05:02 +0000
A partnership between NASA and the French space agency, the satellite is poised to help improve forecasts of where and when flooding will occur in Earth’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are like our planet’s arteries, carrying life-sustaining water in interconnected networks. When Earth’s water cycle runs too fast, flooding can result, […]
Match ID: 40 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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WhatsApp in India
2024-04-30T11:00:28Z
Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
Match ID: 41 Score: 10.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 7 days
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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000
When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.
The post I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 42 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 8 days
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School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program.
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 10 days
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Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
Match ID: 45 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 10 days
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'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.
Match ID: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 14 days
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 19 days
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Match ID: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
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China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 37 days
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
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Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
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China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 54 days
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
Match ID: 59 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 75 days
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
Match ID: 60 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 75 days
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:35:54 +0000
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
Match ID: 61 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:10:43 +0000
The government is not used to being bullied
Match ID: 62 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 96 days
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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The false promise of friendshoring
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:14:50 +0000
America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals
Match ID: 64 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 103 days
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As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:13:53 +0000
Optimism about the world’s second-largest stockmarket is a distant memory
Match ID: 65 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 105 days
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India election: Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:30:27 GMT
Parties clash over communal issues in increasingly charged campaign amid concerns unseasonably hot weather affecting voter numbers
India has held the second phase of the world’s biggest election, with prime minister Narendra Modi and his rivals hurling accusations of religious discrimination and threats to democracy amid flagging voter turnout.
Almost 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the seven-phase general election that began on 19 April and concludes on 1 June, with votes set to be counted on 4 June.
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Match ID: 66 Score: 5.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 10 days
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“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:10:40 +0000
Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.
The post “Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 67 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
Match ID: 68 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
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How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
Match ID: 69 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 33 days
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How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
Match ID: 70 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
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From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack
Thu, 02 May 2024 21:15:55 +0000
University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.
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NASA Challenge Gives Artemis Generation Coders a Chance to Shine
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:16:41 +0000
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge (ADC), one of the agency’s Artemis Student Challenges, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from April 15-18, 2024. The coding challenge, celebrating its fifth year and a part of NASA’s Next Generation STEM […]
Match ID: 1 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
Mon, 06 May 2024 20:36:52 +0000
Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement, according to Columbia professors who worked in real time to support jailed students.
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In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests
Sat, 04 May 2024 20:11:18 +0000
The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban.
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NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:34:07 +0000
Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.
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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
Match ID: 5 Score: 7.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000
When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.
The post I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 6 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.
The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 7 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The Department of Education is probing claims that the school discriminated against Palestinian and Arab students amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
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