The government has ordered an “urgent” review by the competition regulator into the fuel market after pump prices hit new record highs. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said in a letter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that there was “widespread concern” about the pace of price rises and public frustration that a cut in
As part of its summer programming, the New York Public Library is giving away 500,000 free books to kids and teens this summer, starting yesterday! All you need is a library card — and you can sign up for one there if you don’t have one yet. The selections include picture books, chapter books, and
“I’m basically a romantic,” David Cronenberg says, somewhat unexpectedly. This comes after my admission that I found his new movie, Crimes of the Future, surprisingly moving, and before the 78-year-old auteur reminds me, with a laugh, that a photo of kidney stones he recently passed is currently available for purchase as an NFT. The laugh
Blue Boy — perhaps The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens’ most iconic artwork — returned home to his adopted home of San Marino on Saturday, June 11, after an extended vacation at the National Gallery in London. Art lovers made their way to the museum’s Thornton Portrait Galley on Saturday to welcome the
Thousands of people have rallied in Washington DC and across the US to demand politicians tighten gun controls. It comes after 19 children and two teachers were killed last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, but there have been many other examples of mass shootings. In Washington DC, Martin Luther King Jr’s granddaughter
A leaked version of the government’s new food strategy advises people to eat wild venison as a low-carbon alternative to beef and grow their own cucumbers to save the planet, reports claim. The 27-page document, due to be officially released on Monday, follows two reports carried out by the co-founder of restaurant chain Leon, Henry
Bloomberg.com reports that the case is Ellis v. Google LLC, Google having to pay out $118 million settlement to over 15,000 female employees for gender discrimination. The settlement was reached immediately upon conclusion of the case and involves women across 236 job titles. Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, with Altshuler Berzon LLP, announced the
As many as eight zero-day vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Carrier’s LenelS2 HID Mercury access control system that’s used widely in healthcare, education, transportation, and government facilities. “The vulnerabilities uncovered allowed us to demonstrate the ability to remotely unlock and lock doors, subvert alarms and undermine logging and notification systems,” Trellix security researchers Steve Povolny
Four years after the first March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control, thousands of people attended rallies nationwide Saturday in the aftermath of mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. March for Our Lives was founded by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in 2018; seventeen
One of the greatest to ever do it. The legendary Hank Williams is still to this day one of the most influential country artists of all time. Up and down Broadway in Nashville, you can still find bands playing his music from the stages of bars like Robert’s Western World, Layla’s, and AJ’s Good Time
Jennifer Lopez was apparently not happy to share a stage with Shakira — and now, their respective fan bases are having a debate … who’s the bigger superstar between the two? The question was posed through a statement on Twitter, which has since taken off and gone viral — with tons of people chiming in
Tecno Pova 3 India launch is set to take place soon. Although Tecno is yet to announce the exact date of its debut, a dedicated microsite on Amazon India is teasing the launch and specifications of the new Pova series phone in the country. The phone will be powered by the MediaTek Helio G88 SoC,
Agency workers could be called in to replace striking rail staff, according to a report. Labour’s Tony Blair introduced a restriction on using agency staff to stand-in for striking workers when he was prime minister. But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told The Sunday Telegraph that ministers are looking at ways to repeal this. It comes
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Extreme, hilarious chaos is what’s to be expected from Nicolas Heller’s upcoming short Out of Order. Does the director’s name not ring a bell? Try New York Nico, the self-proclaimed “unofficial talent scout of New York City,” who has used Instagram — where he boasts more than 908,000 followers — to capture the city’s kookiest,
Laundry workers from California and Arizona who say they’re struggling to get by on poverty wages plan to rally in Los Angeles on Monday, June 13 to get their message out. About 50 employees — most of whom are Latina women working at hospitals, restaurants, hotels and other workplaces — will speak for an estimated
A US judge has dismissed the Las Vegas rape lawsuit against football star Cristiano Ronaldo. The Manchester United star had paid a woman $375,000 in hush money after she claimed he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009. The lawsuit sought a further payout, which might have run into millions of dollars, but US District
Rwanda’s government has asked for the scheme to send some illegal migrants to its country to be given “a chance”, after Prince Charles is said to have privately called it “appalling”. Yolande Makolo, a spokesperson for the Kigali government, told Sky News the scheme is “well thought out” and it is the responsibility of governments
“For those who are frustrated by my cancelations of the next shows, I’m just physically, obviously, not capable of doing them,” said Justin Bieber in an Instagram video post today. “There’s full paralysis on this side of my face.” On Tuesday, Bieber announced that he was postponing the next few shows of his 130-date Justice
A novel hardware attack dubbed PACMAN has been demonstrated against Apple’s M1 processor chipsets, potentially arming a malicious actor with the capability to gain arbitrary code execution on macOS systems. It leverages “speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection mechanism, ARM Pointer Authentication, a security feature that is used to enforce pointer integrity,”