A global internet glitch currently makes big websites inaccessible. Some reliable sources confirmed that this massive internet outage had affected hundreds of websites in various countries. (Photo : Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Best Buy customers Andre Vaz (L) and Zoran Kostov test an HP laptop at a Best Buy store May 8, 2007 in San Francisco, California. Computer maker Hewlett-Packard raised its second quarter outlook today stating that sales from the quarter will jump from $25.5 billion to $25.55 billion with the net income up from 65 cents to 70 cents. Since it is a serious connection issue, the United…
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A bystander slapped French President Emmanuel Macron across the face during a trip to southeast France on Tuesday on the second stop of a nation-wide tour. Images on social media and broadcast on the BFM news channel showed Macron approach a barrier to greet a man who, instead of shaking hands, slapped the 43-year-old across the face.Macron’s bodyguards quickly intervened and two people were arrested afterwards, local officials said.”The man who tried to slap the president and another individual are currently being questioned by the gendarmerie,” the regional prefecture said in a statement.The incident in the village of Tain-l’Hermitage in…
The United Nations in Myanmar on Tuesday said in a statement that an estimated 100,000 people have been internally displaced due to the violence in Myanmar’s Kayah State. The body also expressed concern about the “rapidly deteriorating security and humanitarian situation” in Kayah State and other areas in south-eastern Myanmar.“Recent violence in Kayah State, including indiscriminate attacks by security forces against civilian areas, has led to the internal displacement of an estimated 100,000 men, women and children. Many of them are currently seeking safety in host communities and forests across Kayah and southern parts of neighbouring Shan state,” the UN…
Pfizer’s vaccine has been authorized for use in children as young as 12 in Europe, the United States and Canada. Reuters | PUBLISHED ON JUN 08, 2021 06:33 PM IST Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it will start a large study to test its Covid-19 vaccine in children below 12 and selected a dosing regime for the trial.The study will enroll up to 4,500 children at more than 90 clinical sites in the United States, Finland, Poland and Spain, the company said.Pfizer’s vaccine has been authorized for use in children as young as 12 in Europe, the United States and…
Liberals have cheered the highly public legal and financial jeopardy ensnaring the National Rifle Association, seeing the gun lobby’s potential demise as the path to stricter firearms laws.But, it turns out, the NRA’s message has become so solidified in the Republican Party that even if the organization implodes from bankruptcy and allegations of lavish spending and misuse of funds, its unapologetic pro-gun point of view will live on, as the heated debate increasingly shifts from Washington to the states.Not even the shift in power to Democrats in the White House and Congress has been enough to push through new federal…
(Photo : Sora Shimazaki from Pexels) Hacker successfully leaked 70GB of public data from LineStart Integrity Services on the dark web, and we need to talk more about it. The recent hacking attack on Colonial Pipeline has been shaken up the world because of the dangers hackers could bring forth. It seems like a ransomware group also attacked another pipeline-focused company around the same time as Colonial Pipeline. However, their operation was so professionally done that nobody knew about it until now. The hacking group was able to leak a total of 70GB of the company’s internal files on one of the…
Envoys from World Trade Organisation member nations are taking up a proposal to ease patents and other intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines to help developing countries fight the pandemic, an idea backed by the Biden administration but opposed in other wealthy countries with strong pharmaceutical industries.On the table for a two-day meeting of a WTO panel opening Tuesday is a revised proposal presented by India and South Africa for a temporary IP waiver on coronavirus vaccines. The idea has drawn support from more than 60 countries, which now include the United States and China.Some European Union member states oppose…
China’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday denounced a brief weekend visit by three US senators to Chinese-claimed Taiwan on a US military aircraft as a “vile political provocation” that was irresponsible and dangerous.The three senators, Tammy Duckworth, Dan Sullivan and Christopher Coons, visited Taipei for around three hours on Sunday where they met President Tsai Ing-wen and announced the donation of 750,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses for the island.Unusually, they travelled on a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III freighter, rather than an unmarked private jet as is generally the case for senior US visitors.China’s Defence Ministry expressed its strong opposition to…
(Photo : Genshin Impact) The “Genshin Impact” 1.7 version beta testing is already happening, and users can’t help but leak some details about the game. Several screenshots and in-game videos emerged, mostly related to the 3D model, Raiden Shogun, also called Electro Archon Baal. Baal is the infamous Electro Archon reigning over the Inazuma region found in Teyvat. Inazuma is said to be the next story chapter of the video game, and “Genshin Impact” leaks revealed that the part will finally come within the 1.7 version on July 21. ‘Genshin Impact’ Leak – Electro Archon Baal Throughout “Genshin Impact,” Baal’s…
A major internet outage struck social media platforms, government and news portals on Tuesday across the globe, taking them down briefly in parts of the world. The cause behind the outage was not immediately known. However, a report by Reuters indicated a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.San Francisco-based Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” Reuters reported. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.Fastly runs a content delivery network that pushes data quickly around the internet so businesses can help consumers shop online or watch…