The former head of trust and safety at Twitter admitted that the company made a mistake when censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. Yoel Roth, who resigned earlier in November following Musk’s $44 billion takeover, said the authenticity of the New York Post’s laptop story was difficult for the social media company to verify, and…
Global police agency Interpol confirmed on Wednesday it had issued a red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country’s former president, asking global law enforcement authorities to locate and provisionally arrest her. Dos Santos, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has faced corruption accusations for years, including allegations by Angola in 2020…
For years, as the U.S. has ramped up pressure on Venezuela’s socialist government, dozens of allegedly corrupt insiders have raced through the U.S. criminal justice system, cutting plea bargains to avoid lengthy prison sentences and sparing prosecutors the work of having to prove their cases in court. But not Claudia Díaz. A former Venezuelan treasurer…
It is worth noting that the massive WhatsApp data breach involving over 500 million user data does not appear to include any Indian user data. WhatsApp’s recent data breach still remains a mystery to many of them as it is purely based on the screenshots shared and circulated in media. WhatsApp is widely regarded as…
The payments network Zelle is owned by seven United States based banks, and has been under the careful watch of lawmakers. A potential rule may shift the responsibility to the banks when the banks’ customers are subject to fraud. Presently, in most cases the customer is presently responsible for any income lost if the transaction…
London’s High Court has ordered six cryptocurrency exchanges, which includes Binance, Coinbase, CoinDesk sister company Luno and Kraken, to disclose client information to help trace $10.7 million that was stolen from a U.K.-based exchange in 2020, according to a court judgement. The exchange, which remains anonymous as it continues to track stolen funds, managed to…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defended his decision to continue peddling the controversial anti-Semitic film that landed Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving in hot water. During the Dealbook conference in New York on Wednesday, Jassy insisted the movie, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” doesn’t directly incite hate as the reason for the film remaining…
A high-ranking Russian colonel who played a role in President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization efforts “executed” himself with five gunshots to the chest in his commander’s office after allegedly being set up to take the fall for some of the problems plaguing the invasion of Ukraine, according to his widow. Col. Vadim Boiko, 44, deputy…