Month: June 2022
Adeel Habib Arrest Over dangerous driving
A man whose YouTube channel showed him driving high-performance cars at high speeds on busy public roads has been sentenced for dangerous driving. Habib, who is already serving a four-year jail term on drugs charges, was given a 27-month sentence. Appearing in court by video link, he was also disqualified from driving for 49 months.
rift between Mr Musk’s daughter and her father.
Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has applied to legally change her name and gender, saying she no longer wants to “be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”. The 18-year-old has asked to be recognised as female and have the name Vivian Jenna Wilson. The petition for both a name change and
Strava app flaw
A security vulnerability in the fitness app Strava allowed suspicious figures to identify and track security personnel working at secretive bases in Israel. Information about 100 individuals who exercised at six bases was viewable. In 2018, the company published a global “heatmap” that revealed the exercise routes of people at military bases around the world.
Starlink granted Guernsey licence
The company, which applied for the licence earlier in June, uses Musk’s Space X technology to provide wi-fi has been granted a licence to operate in Guernsey. On Wednesday, the Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority (GCRA) issued Starlink a licence to operate in the Bailiwick Starlink told the GCRA it wanted to provide fibre-like connectivity
Meta: appeals over removed posts
Meta’s system of appeals against its decisions to remove content on Facebook and Instagram received roughly 1.1 million cases in its first year. The disputed posts, most of which originated in the US, Canada or Europe, had largely been removed for either violence, hate speech or bullying. Of the 20 cases about which The Oversight
Support for Ukraine Candidature
The mission has seen its membership expand steadily from the six founders of its precursor in the 1950s to 27 countries today. But in recent years its growth has slowed. No new member has been admitted since Croatia in 2013 (and one has left). Now war has ignited on the eu’s borders just the sort
Pay Rise for US federal fighters
Pay raises for the federal firefighters had been included in last year’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, but they had been held up as Biden administration officials studied recruitment and retention data to decide where to deliver them. President Joe Biden has signed off on giving federal wildland firefighters a hefty raise for the next two
Ethiopia Ethnic Attacks
Hundreds of civilians have reportedly been killed in what appears to be an ethnically motivated attack. Witnesses speaking on condition of anonymity saying they feared reprisals reported at least 260 deaths. On Saturday, gunmen in the Gimbi district of Western Wollega Zone allegedly launched an attack on ethnic Amharas a minority in the region. It
China virtual idols
Virtual idols are generated by computers. Often, though, these digital avatars are controlled by anonymous human performers wearing motion-capture gear. The most popular virtual idols sing and dance before millions of viewers on live-streaming platforms. Fans tip real money and buy merchandise. Some virtual idols are influencers or used in marketing campaigns. It makes for
Israel’s government collapses
A series of inconclusive elections and a long period of political paralysis were supposed to have come to an end last June, when Naftali Bennett, an arch-nationalist (pictured, left), and Yair Lapid, leader of Israel’s largest centrist party, managed to yoke together eight disparate parties. Israel is heading for its fifth general election in less