Nursing home owners drained cash during pandemic while residents deteriorated
In the pandemic, lavish payments went to companies linked to N.Y. nursing home owners while patients and staff endured bad conditions. Regulators are watching.
Day: February 3, 2023
Lisa Marie Presley: When a celebrity dies, who gets what can get messy
With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, celebrity wills can bring heirs out of the woodwork.
Weekly Update 333
Getting everything out nice and early today so we can get out there in hit the wake park in the balmy “well over 30C” weather (the radio is talking about “severe heatwave weather” as I write this). But hey, we’re surrounded by water and
Putin vows Russia will be victorious in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked the victory over Nazi Germany to justify his invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are readying for a renewed onslaught as the Kremlin tries to reshape the battlefield. Debora Patta has more.
Documents Show Meta Paid For Data Scraping Despite Years of Denouncing It
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against …
Northern Ireland fire chief appeals for strike cover to avoid army call-up
Union dismisses ‘desperate tactics’ as chief calls for recognition of region’s ‘unique circumstances’A fire service chief has been accused of “desperate tactics” after pleading for firefighters in Northern Ireland to respond to high-risk calls during a…
Gem Security emerges from stealth and raises $11 million
Gem Security has emerged from stealth, launching its Cloud TDIR (Threat Detection, Investigation and Response) platform and announcing $11 million in seed funding led by Team8. The adoption of cloud infrastructure is increasing and diversifying the att…
TgToxic Malware’s Automated Framework Targets Southeast Asia Android Users
We look into an ongoing malware campaign we named TgToxic, targeting Android mobile users in Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia since July 2022. The malware steals users’ credentials and assets such as cryptocurrency from digital wallets, as well as money…
U.S. Senators Call On President Biden To Delay F-16 jet Sale To Turkey Until Finland And Sweden Allowed Into NATO
Master Sgt. Tristan McIntire/40th Flight Test Squadron/DVIDS CNN: Senators call on Biden to delay F-16 jet sale to Turkey until Finland and Sweden allowed into NATO A bipartisan group of senators urged President Joe Biden to delay the sale …
Judge dismisses lawsuit over US utility’s long-term deals
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by environmental groups that challenged how the nation’s largest public utility signs local power providers up for long-term contracts.