Four months after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, 22-year-old Asad Asadullah had settled into a new routine. In his hometown in Afghanistan’s northern Samangan province, the former computer science student started and ended each day glued to his laptop screen. Since late October, Asadullah had been participating in a virtual coding bootcamp organized […]
Monthly Archives: December 2021
TikTok replaces Google as world’s most popular website
TikTok become the most popular domain on the internet by 2021 on Tuesday, by replacing Google according to cybersecurity company Cloudflare. TikTok is a video-focused social media site from the Chinese company ByteDance. “It was February 17, 2021 when TikTok took first place for one day,” write Joao Tome and Sofia Cardita in a […]
Elon Musk Sells Another $1 Billion in Tesla Shares to Prep for Largest Tax Bill in History
Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images According to financial documents released Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold 934,090 company shares valued at around $ 1.02 billion not to fund a McMansion on Mars.Musk said he is preparing to pay the biggest tax bill in history. With an estimated value of more than […]
Elon Musk sells another $1 billion in Tesla shares, nearing 10% target
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands in the foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory during a press event. Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images Elon Musk sold another $ 1.02 billion in Tesla Inc. stock, moving closer to his goal of reducing his stake in the electric car maker by 10 percent. US Securities and […]
Elon Musk reveals who bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto might be
Musk.MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk seems to agree with many that hyper-secret cryptocurrency expert Nick Szabo could be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of the digital currency Bitcoin. “You can watch ideas evolve before Bitcoin was launched and see who wrote about those ideas,” Musk told artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman on […]
New Flagpro malware linked to Chinese state-backed hackers
The cyber espionage group APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) Blackwell has been targeting Japanese companies with a new type of malware that researchers call “Flag pro”. Second level malware and run it. Breaching corporate networks The chain of infection begins with a phishing e-mail that was developed for the target organization and pretends to be a […]
Watch out for ‘child in need’ Whatsapp scams as parents get duped out of £50,000
Another WhatsApp scam is circulating, this time aimed at parents. WhatsApp scammers pretend to be desperate children who need money right away. People in the UK have reportedly been defrauded of nearly £ 50,000 for this type of scam. 25 cases of fraud were reported between August and October, with victims losing pounds 48,356. A […]
A Weird Paper Tests The Limits of Science by Claiming Octopuses Came From Space
A round-up of decades of research into a fairly “external” idea with viruses from space begs the question of how scientific we can be when it comes to speculating about the history of life on earth. and nonconformist in describing the scientific fringes, but then articles like this one from 2018 pop up and make […]
Elon Musk’s ex Grimes sparks new pregnancy rumours with cryptic post: See here
Elon Musk’s ex, singer Grimes, has sent rumour mills in overdrive with her latest Instagram Elon Musk’s ex-singer Grimes got the rumors going with her latest Instagram post showing her with a prominent belly.Grimes fans continued to speculate on Tuesday after the Player of Games singer’s new photo showing an animated form of her. At […]
Omicron symptoms: how they differ from Delta, the flu and a cold, and how quickly they’ll show up
Image Credit:CIPhotos via Getty Images With the Omicron variant of Covid, it extends along the city and abroad, many people felt this week as the hope that their end of the pandemic had been plagued. Omicron symptoms can mimic the common cold Although experts say that the widely recognized COVID-19 symptoms, coughing, fever or […]