A crypto entrepreneur says his net worth has fallen from $26.5bn to $100,000 after his company imploded. Sam Bankman-Fried admitted it has been a “bad month” after FTX collapsed into bankruptcy, leaving thousands of people frozen out of their savings. The 30-year-old – who once positioned himself as a saviour for stricken firms – has
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Lainey Wilson managed to pull a fast one on her fans in the most recent episode of Yellowstone, as she debuted another new song. However, this time around she wasn’t on camera singing. During Episode 4 on Sunday (Nov. 27), a previously unheard song titled “New Friends” plays during a scene featuring Jamie Dutton (Wes
Los Angeles looks to be in the midst of a new winter Covid surge that’s so far hitting earlier and harder than it did last year. Today’s 24-hour case count for L.A. County rose to 4,353, which is the highest daily total in nearly four months. The last time a single-day case count topped today’s
The visiting royals enjoyed something of a Boston tea party with Mayor Michelle Wu and Gov.-Elect Maura Healey in City Hall before a brief and soggy address about the climate to a crowd outside. Prince William thanked “all the hearty Bostonians” who spent the Wednesday afternoon getting rained on as they waited for him to
A new drug is making headlines around the world for being the first ever to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. After an 18-month trial of 1,800 patients, lecanemab slowed patients’ mental decline by 27%. Although scientists are hailing a “new era” in treatment, strains on the NHS and the scale and complexity of the
The government is running out of prison places and has had to ask police for 400 cells to make sure there is enough accommodation for the prison population. Prisons minister Damian Hinds told MPs there had been an “acute and sudden increase in the prison population” in recent months and, as a result, the Operation
The North Korea-linked ScarCruft group has been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called Dolphin that the threat actor has used against targets located in its southern counterpart. “The backdoor […] has a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing
I think we all know by now that Charles Wesley Godwin is one of the best songwriters in the independent country music scene right now. Not to mention, the guy can put on an electric show (we here at Whiskey Riff got to all witness it first hand at the Greenville Country Music Fest in