Category: News

US prosecutors have charged two members of a Russia-based hacking group that calls itself Evil Corp with masterminding a global banking fraud scheme that netted the unsubtly named gang more than $100m. Two leading members of Evil Corp, Maksim Yakubets of Moscow and Igor Turashev from the Russian city Yoshkar-Ola, were charged with bank fraud…

R Kelly is facing new bribery charges apparently related to his 1994 marriage to the R&B singer Aaliyah, who was 15 at the time. A revised indictment in federal court in Brooklyn accuses Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a “fraudulent identification document” for someone identified only as “Jane Doe” on 30 August…

Two Muslim US congresswomen have been targeted by a vast international operation that exploits far-right pages on Facebook to inflame Islamophobia for profit, a Guardian investigation has found. A mysterious Israeli-based group uses 21 Facebook pages to churn out more than a thousand coordinated fake news posts per week to more than a million followers…

Elon Musk’s attorney pressured a British cave explorer to apologize for criticizing Musk’s miniature submarine, in the third day of Vernon Unsworth’s defamation trial. “Do you believe Mr Musk is so cold-hearted that he was sending over this sub with no regard for the children’s lives?” Bill Price asked Vernon Unsworth in a Los Angeles…

UN peacekeepers have been sent to South Sudan’s northern Lakes region after a series of clashes in which 79 people were killed and more than 100 injured. With roads impassable due to heavy rains and flooding, the Nepalese blue helmets travelled by helicopter on Tuesday from Rumbek, the state capital, to Maper, about 100km north,…

Parents at a public school district in Maryland have won a major victory for student privacy: tech companies that work with the school district now have to purge the data they have collected on students once a year. Experts say the district’s “Data Deletion Week” may be the first of its kind in the country….

More than 3,000 Uber passengers reported sexual assaults in 2018, the ride-sharing company revealed in its first-ever safety report on Friday. Nine passengers were murdered and 58 riders were killed in crashes last year, the report said. These incidents, which include 229 rapes, represent just a fraction of the more than 1.3bn rides Uber facilitated…

The Argentine is taking in a enforced break after being relieved of his duties at Tottenham, but feels ready to step straight back into the dugout Mauricio Pochettino has left a coaching door open for Arsenal and Manchester United, with the Argentine looking to make an immediate return to coaching in Europe following his dismissal…

Si Daniel Craig a officialisé qu’il reprendrait pour la cinquième fois le rôle de l’agent au service secret de Sa Majesté, le méchant du précédent opus Christoph Waltz ne sera plus de la partie. Christoph Waltz a rendu l’a confirmé : interrogé par le site italien Talky Movie, le méchant de 007 Spectre devra changer de visage….

Début octobre 2017, Ridley Scott a participé à une table ronde des producteurs influents d’Hollywood au cours de laquelle il est revenu sur son désir de continuer la saga “Alien”, mais pas forcément pour s’attarder sur sa créature. Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Judd Apatow (The Big Sick), Seth Rogen (The Disaster Artist), Jason Blum (Get Out), Eric Fellner (Les heures…