Month: September 2022
Ted Lasso on Fifa23
Characters from hit TV comedy Ted Lasso will be available for gamers to play in the forthcoming Fifa 23. Fifa 23 will also be the first iteration of the game to feature women’s teams at club level.Several players from the fictional AFC Richmond, as well as their moustached manager, will be incorporated into the latest
Optus cyber-attack
Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, has reported a cyber-attack. The company – which has more than ten million subscribers – says it has shut down the attack but not before other details such as driver’s licences and passport numbers were hacked. The company said it would notify those at “heightened risk” but all customers should
Twitch bans lots and roulette gambling
Gambling videos have proved contentious on Twitch since they first appeared – but in recent months, prominent streamers have been vocally critical, with some even threatening to organise a strike. Promoting gambling websites can be particularly lucrative for streamers, with Tyler “Trainwreckstv” Niknam, who has more than 2.1 million followers, claiming one such site gives
Grand Theft Auto VI hacking
The hacker claimed to have gained access to the data by breaching Rockstar’s internal feed on the Slack messaging app, and invited executives to negotiate to avoid further leaks. More than 90 videos and images from the next edition of the Grand Theft Auto franchise have been leaked online by a hacker. Rockstar Games said
sextortion cases in Gloucestershire
Sextortion is where someone threatens to share sexual pictures or videos of the victim unless they do something in return, such as pay them.The most common age of victims, both male and female, is 16-years-old but children as young as 10 have been approached and some victims have lost money. Children as young as 10
Protecting our soil
An inch of nutrient-rich topsoil, so integral to productive agricultural land, can take hundreds of years to develop. But it takes far less time to become dried out and potentially eroded as a result of drought. Healthy soil is critical for global food security as well as the thousands of species that call it home.
crush opposition in crush opposition
A United Nations (UN) report presented Tuesday claims that Venezuelan security services under the direction of President Nicolas Maduro have committed crimes against humanity in an effort to quash political opposition in the beleaguered Latin American country. President Maduro is directing security agencies to arrest and torture political opponents. Abuses are also rife in the
dementia signs
The Cognitive decline is severe enough to interfere with daily life and activities and in most instances it causes brain cell function to deteriorate. Everyone forgets things from time to time, but drawing a blank on key personal information such as friends’ names, birthdays, and other important dates may be an early sign of dementia,
Eritrea offensive in Tigray
Conflict first broke out in November 2020 following a massive fall-out between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the region. Eritrea intervened on the side of the Ethiopian military, but it reportedly withdrew most of its troops last year.Eritrean troops have launched a full-scale offensive in Ethiopia’s
Putin mobilises
Residents of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv found themselves under bombardment again Wednesday after Russian missiles struck apartment blocks wounding at least one civilian just as Moscow announced an escalation in its war. The mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, said four projectiles had struck the Kholodnogorsky district overnight, hitting two housing blocks, a building site and