Published time: 5 Dec, 2017 08:34 People like ‘Sam’ are sneaking past internet filters and parental locks to abuse British children. In just one week police arrested nearly 200 sex pests, more than a quarter for blackmail, grooming, or using live streaming to target children. In their week-long crackdown, UK police and the National Crime […]
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Cyber Monday vendors targeting gamers with big discounts
Gamers are going to get a lot of bargains on Cyber Monday, the traditional discount day for electronic commerce holiday shopping. Cyber Monday hasn’t always been as big a deal for gamers, but the discounting strategy has spread everywhere. The day has grown in significance as electronic commerce surpasses retail sales in many categories, particularly […]
Tiger Woods EXCLUSIVE: Golf icon already targeting The Open title ahead of comeback
GETTY Tiger Woods has won The Open three times, twice on Scottish soil Woods is making his return to competitive golf this week at the Hero Challenge in the Bahamas after a 10-month lay-off following career-saving back surgery and is understandably taking things slowly for now. The former world number one has endured a miserable […]
Innocent woman knocked down by Israeli ‘skunk cannon’ targeting ultra-Orthodox protesters (VIDEO)
Published time: 27 Nov, 2017 00:30 An innocent passerby trying to cross the street in Jerusalem on Sunday has been hit in the back of her head and sent flying several meters away by an Israeli police skunk-water cannon, deployed against ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting army conscription. A crowd of protesters staged yet another sit-in, obstructing […]
US announces new sanctions targeting North Korean & Chinese companies
Published time: 21 Nov, 2017 22:49 Edited time: 21 Nov, 2017 22:50 Washington has sanctioned several Chinese entities in its ongoing efforts to compel North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. The US also accused North Korea of engaging in illegal ship-to-ship oil transfers on the high seas. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign […]
‘Croydon cat killer’ now believed to be targeting pet rabbits
Published time: 13 Nov, 2017 21:19 The notorious Croydon cat killer is believed to have turned his sights to rabbits after two mutilated pet bunnies were found by their owners. Animal charity Snarl said the bunny incidents were being linked to its probe into hundreds of cat deaths. Gray rabbit Elmo was found in his […]
A lender targeting the ‘New Middle Class’ is working to hand out higher credit limits to struggling Americans (ELVT)
Elevate Elevate, a fintech lender serving nonprime borrowers, is looking to partner with a bank to produce a credit card with “significantly higher lines” of credit than what exists on the market today. The company, which announced earnings Monday, outlined a number of expectations for 2018 including new products and partnerships. Nationally, credit card defaults […]
Aston Martin Confirms Two Lagonda Models, Targeting Rolls-Royce and Bentley
– Nobody could accuse the modern Aston Martin company of lacking ambition. The British sports-car maker’s long history has included many fallow decades and even a period of near hibernation in the early 1990s, when total annual production dropped below 100 cars, but it is now set to open two new fronts in its search […]
Canadian human rights bill targeting Russian officials gets royal assent
Published time: 19 Oct, 2017 05:10 The Canadian version of the US Magnitsky Act, envisioning sanctions for foreign nationals accused of human rights violations and corruption crimes, was granted approval by the Canadian Governor General, required to make it law, on Wednesday. Earlier in October, the bill was unanimously approved by the Canadian parliament. Moscow […]
An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, left sensitive voter targeting tools online for nearly a year
AP Photo/Alex Brandon An intern at the data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica left online for nearly a year what appears to be programming instructions for the voter targeting tools the company used around the time of the election, raising questions about who could have accessed the tools and to what end. Social media analyst and […]
