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☆ Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed’s Waller event
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

A virtual event with Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller was canceled on Thursday after the Zoom videoconference was “hijacked” by a participant who displayed pornographic images. It is an incident we deeply regret,” said Brent Tjarks, executive director of the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America (MBCA), which hosted the event via a Zoom link. More than 220 participants were on the Zoom call at one point before it was terminated. It came under fire over privacy and security issues, including incidents of “Zoom bombing” in which uninvited users entered and disrupted meetings. In response to the disruptions, Zoom rolled out major upgrades, including end-to-end encryption for video calls.

March 2 (Reuters) - A virtual event with Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller was canceled on Thursday after the Zoom video conference was "hijacked" by a participant who displayed pornographic images. It is an incident we deeply regret," said Brent Tjarks, executive director of the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America (MBCA), which hosted the event via a Zoom link. "We have been deeply upset to hear about these types of incidents, and Zoom strongly condemns such behavior," Zoom spokesman Matt Nagel said in a statement. The service has come under fire over privacy and security issues, including incidents of "Zoom bombing" in which uninvited users entered and disrupted meetings. The Fed said the event, which was to feature a speech by Waller as well as a question-and-answer session, was canceled due to "technical difficulties."

☆ The Man Who Tried to Stop the Space Shuttle Challenger’s Launch
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Rachel M. Mccleary | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing the space shuttle Challenger for launch on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. It was an unusually cold morning for Cape Canaveral, Fla.—too cold, warned the engineers of NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, builder of the shuttle’s solid rocket motors. The day before the launch, Thiokol engineers and executives met with NASA officials on a teleconference. A Thiokol engineer reported the anticipated temperature during the following day’s launch time would be around 26 degrees. Erring on the side of caution, Boisjoly, Thompson and other engineers recommended delaying the launch.

☆ Indonesia soccer stampede trial begins with police, match organisers facing negligence charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Prasto Wardoyo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] A goalpost is seen after a riot and stampede following soccer match between Arema vs Persebaya at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java province, Indonesia, October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/FilesSURABAYA, Indonesia, Jan 16 (Reuters) - An Indonesian court on Monday began a trial of a handful of police officers and soccer match organisers on charges of criminal negligence for their role in one of the world's deadliest soccer stadium stampedes in Java last October. Investigators concluded that excessive and indiscriminate use of tear gas was the main trigger behind the deadly crush. A lawyer for the match organiser from Arema, one of the soccer clubs involved in the match, said his client denied all charges. "If there is negligence it should be on the police, who fired the tear gas, not us," said Sudarman, the lawyer.

☆ Analysis: Tencent bets big on WeChat Channels in push to build its own TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

"Tencent hopes it can turn Channels into the next WeChat Pay. Two sources familiar with Tencent said the importance of Channels has been repeatedly communicated within the company. In November, Tencent President Martin Lau said Channels' advertising revenue was on track to reach 1 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of 2022. "For example, in Douyin or Kuaishou, you won't be able to ask your viewers to add you on WeChat. But on Channels, you can quickly add somebody on WeChat," Yang said.

"More fundamental, and more subtle and more important is the social contract and social trust in China. COVID CZAROver the past three years, Vice Premier Sun, 72, has been the face of China's COVID fight, a mother-like figure who has executed Xi's zero-COVID policy with a firm hand. In April this year, Sun rushed to Shanghai as the city went under lockdown, according to state media reports. During the Shanghai lockdown, while also on an inspection tour, Sun was bombarded by pleas from residents shouting from their windows: "No more rice! How the current infections are tackled remain a key near-term challenge to COVID czars.

☆ LPP will pay dividend next year, says CFO
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

GDANSK, Poland, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Next year Polish clothing retailer LPP (LPPP.WA) will pay a dividend, the company's chief financial officer (CFO) said during a teleconference on Thursday, a day after the company published its third quarter results. Przemyslaw Lutkiewicz added that the group would like to pay a dividend every year and that sales dynamics in December were positive. Reporting by Anna Banacka and Adrianna Ebert, editing by Alan CharlishOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China putting U.S. space assets at risk, senior U.S. officer says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China is building capabilities that put most U.S. space assets at risk, and China sees the domain as crucial to their military strategy, the head of the U.S. Space Command said on Friday. U.S. Army General James H. Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, told reporters on a teleconference from Hawaii that such ASAT, or anti-satellite, tests congest space with debris. "They continue to build and build capabilities that really, quite frankly, hold most of our assets at risk in the space domain. China says its space programme is for peaceful purposes. The station represents a significant milestone in China's three-decade crewed space programme, first approved in 1992.

☆ Peru's Castillo faces criminal charges as new president Boluarte takes helm
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Marco Aquino | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

LIMA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Peru's former President Pedro Castillo faced a first court hearing on Thursday over his arrest on charges of rebellion and conspiracy, as his successor issued her first pronouncements from the presidential palace. Castillo was ordered to be detained for seven days as the investigation into the charge that he orchestrated a rebellion proceeds. The former president attended the hearing via teleconference from a penitentiary center in Lima where he is being detained. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has indicated he would be open to granting asylum to Castillo, a fellow leftist. BOLUARTE TAKES OFFICEDina Boluarte, Castillo's vice president, was sworn in as the South American country's new president on Wednesday, making her the sixth president in five years and the first woman to lead the nation of some 33 million.

☆ Saudi, China agree to strengthen energy cooperation -SPA
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Companies Saudi Arabian Oil Co FollowDUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and the director of China's National Energy Administration Zhang Jianhua on Friday said they would strengthen their ties in the energy sector, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported. The officials spoke in a teleconference call and stressed the importance of stable long-term supplies to crude oil markets, SPA said. The Saudi minister reaffirmed earlier on Friday from New Delhi that OPEC+ is doing the right job to ensure stable and sustainable oil markets. Prince Abdulaziz and his Chinese counterpart agreed to continue cooperation efforts to maintain stability in oil markets, SPA said, adding that the Kingdom continues to be China's most reliable partner and supplier of crude oil. He had earlier this week spoken with the trade minister of Japan, another key client, and discussed strengthening cooperation on energy.

☆ Iran sent troops to Ukraine to help Russia use Iranian-made drones, Biden admin officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The U.S. has evidence that Iran sent troops to Ukraine to help Russia launch drone attacks on targets across the country, Biden administration officials said Thursday. “We assess that Iranian military personnel were on the ground in Crimea and assisted Russia in these operations,” Kirby said. The U.S. has “credible information that Russian officials prior to the presence of Iranian trainers in Crimea have received training in Iran,” Price said. The New York Times first reported that Iranian personnel had been sent to Ukraine to guide Russian forces in the use of newly acquired Iranian-made drones. The Biden administration earlier this year accused Iran of preparing to send drones to Russia.

☆ Supreme Court announces partial reopening to public for new term
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | Lawrence Hurley Covers The Supreme Court For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The court said in a statement Wednesday that people will be able to attend oral arguments when its new term starts Monday, although "the building will otherwise remain closed to the public." In March 2020, the justices initially pivoted to holding remote oral arguments by teleconference before they resumed in-person oral arguments in a largely empty courtroom last fall. In a major development, the court began livestreaming audio of oral arguments at the beginning of the pandemic, for the first time allowing the public to hear the court proceedings without being present in the courtroom. Throughout the pandemic, tourists have been barred from the court building, with only some court staff members, lawyers and journalists allowed access at certain times. In June, as the court issued its abortion ruling and other big decisions, a security fence surrounded the court.

☆ Top U.S. general urges vigilance as Russia weighs Ukraine setbacks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Phil Stewart | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A MILITARY BASE IN POLAND, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The top U.S. general cautioned on Sunday it remained unclear how Russia might react to the latest battlefield setbacks in Ukraine and called for increased vigilance among U.S. troops as he visited a base in Poland aiding Ukraine's war effort. "They're not willing to scrap it," one soldier said, recalling artillery with shrapnel damage and sometimes completely worn out from firing round after round against Russian troops. "Combat power for Ukraine is staying at the level it is because of America's investment in the sustainment," the soldier said. PUTIN'S OPTIONSThe rout of Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region a week ago has prompted unusually strong public criticism from Russian military commentators. Russian government officials have dismissed Western suggestions that Moscow would use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

☆ 22-year-old shares nightmare of getting scammed by a fake job: 'I went from excited to devastated in a month'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Callie Heim, 22, went viral on TikTok for sharing how she got scammed by a fake job listing. Callie Heim was thrilled to start her marketing job with Waymo, the buzzy self-driving car company, earlier this summer. Heim had been scammed by a fake job listing. She was invited to a phone interview the next day, where the interviewer said the job would entail getting a computer and phone to do her job remotely. In reality, this is what's known as a fake check scam, where scammers hope you'll send them money and "reimburse" you with a bad check.

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