Sun 21 July 2024: For several months now, Dana Alshaer and hundreds of others at a top Australian university have been raising their voices for Palestinians suffering through Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports. Alshaer is one of the founders and main organisers of UniMelb for Palestine, a collective of students, staff and alumni of […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog on Saturday. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,” it said in the […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: The man who shot former US President Donald Trump in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania flew a drone over the rally site just hours before Trump appeared on stage, according to NBC news. The drone, reportedly a DJI model, provided the 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Crooks, an aerial perspective that […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: Elon Musk formally endorsed Trump’s candidacy after the former president survived a shooting in Pennsylvania [File: Apu Gomes /Getty Images] Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said he plans to donate approximately $45m each month to a new super political-action committee (Super PAC) supporting Donald Trump‘s election bid, according to a United States […]
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Sat 20 July 2024: A Russian court has sentenced US journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison, concluding the espionage trial of the Wall Street Journal reporter in Yekaterinburg. The prosecution had initially demanded an 18-year prison term. The trial, which started on June 26, was held behind closed doors. Press freedom advocates, global […]
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Fri 19 July 2024: Argentina has logged over 520,000 cases of dengue since the start of this year, with an outbreak 3.17 times larger than last year, but there were signs of decreasing in the past few weeks, the Health Ministry said Sunday. In the first 27 weeks of this year, health authorities registered 520,037 […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: Real Madrid has reclaimed its position as the world’s most valuable football club, with a brand value of $1.8 billion, according to Brand Finance’s latest data. The Spanish club, which boasts a brand strength score of 96.3 out of 100, has surpassed major global brands like Google, Coca-Cola, Ferrari, and Rolex. […]
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Fri 19 July 2024: Electronic prescription provider MediSecure has revealed that the personal data of approximately 12.9 million Australians were leaked during a cyber security incident earlier this year, Xinhua reported. On April 13, MediSecure discovered that a database server had been encrypted by suspected ransomware, before the incident was first notified to the public […]
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Fri 19 July 2024: US President Joe Biden could announce his decision to end his re-election campaign as soon as this weekend, according to a report published Thursday. The Axios news website based its reporting on comments from several top Democrats who said privately that rising intra-party pressures, including from leadership and close friends, “will […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: The power transmission system operators (TSOs) of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have notified Russia of their intention to withdraw from the agreement that integrates their power grids with the Russia-controlled IPS/UPS system. According to Latvian TSO Augstsprieguma Tikls (AST), this transition will take effect in February 2025, when the Baltic states […]
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