IT was a date with death and only a hunch saved Nikkie Brass from being the next victim on a serial killer’s list. When Nikkie met architect Rex Heuermann at a seafood restaurant she refused to go home with him when he started talking about a series o…
Wildfire survivors who lost their homes could face another blow from taxes on settlement payouts
Thousands of survivors of the 2025 Eaton Fire in California are accepting settlements from the utility accused of causing it
Quarter of a million people could lose job by middle of 2027 as UK ‘flirts with recession’, analysis says
Twin reports from top accounting firms underline scale of economic threat as Iran war shatters business confidenceA quarter of a million people could lose their jobs by the middle of next year as Britain “flirts with recession”, analysis suggests, afte…
Missing woman cruelly trolled after her ‘heavily filtered social media pics hampered desperate four-day search for her’
A DESPERATE search for a missing woman was hindered because no-one could recognise her from her heavily filtered social media photos. Cops launched a major missing person investigation to find Grecia Guadalupe Mendoza Orantes, 30, by plastering he…
Opinion: Opinion | Pakistan’s Ever-Running Saudi ‘Lifeline’ Has Its Limits
There is a gap between what Pakistan seeks from its Gulf partners and their willingness to offer it.
Turkey rallies global middle powers in Antalya amid Hormuz crisis
At the Antalya summit, Erdoğan brought together leaders of 150 countries to tackle crises, promote alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz, and showcase the growing diplomatic clout of middle powers.
AI platform ATHR makes voice phishing a one-person job
For $4,000 and a cut of the take, a lone criminal can now run a fully automated voice-phishing operation via ATHR, a plaform that spoofs emails alerts from Google, Microsoft, and Coinbase, buries a phone number in each message, and when the victim call…
Is “Satoshi Nakamoto” Really Adam Back?
The New York Times has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back.
I don’t know. The article is convincing, but it’s written to be convincing.
I can’t remember if I ever met Adam. I was a member of the Cypherpunks mailing list for a while, but I was never really an active participant. I spent more time on the Usenet newsgroup sci.crypt. I knew a bunch of the Cypherpunks, though, from various conferences around the world at the time. I really have no opinion about who Satoshi Nakamoto really is…
Bluesky Disrupted by Sophisticated DDoS Attack
A pro-Iran hacker group has taken credit for the attack on Bluesky, which appears to have lasted 24 hours.
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News24 | Counter-terrorism lessons to avoid a Lake Chad Basin scenario in Borgu-Kainji
Reactive counter-terrorism posture risks entrenching armed groups in a new corridor linking northwest to southwest Nigeria, writes Taiwo Adebayo in ISS Today.