President Biden speaks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers as he visits the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8. Photo: Jim Watson / AFP via Getty ImagesAn increase in the number of people from Nicaragua and Cuba arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border last month led to the highest number of illegal...
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Atto, the pseudonymous founder behind Little Shapes NFT, has revealed that the project was actually a “social experiment” designed to shed light on large-scale nonfungible token (NFT) bot network scams on Twitter.Since late December 2022, Little Shapes has been attracting much attention from the media and crypto community. This is due to several semi-viral tweets detailing...
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A significant number of employees are still falling for phishing scams, according to the results of a global test by a Canadian-based firm. Seven percent of all end users who participated in the 2022 Gone Phishing Tournament run by Quebec’s Terranova Security clicked on the link in the phishing email. Three per cent of them...
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January 19, 2023 9:41 PM The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has vowed to sanction commercial banks still dispensing old Naira notes ahead of the Jan. 31 deadline for the cessation of the currencies as legal tender. Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of CBN stated this on Thursday during a sensitisation campaign on the redesigned Naira...
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Alec Baldwin's attorney is likely to gain more notoriety due to representing the actor after new charges were levied in relation to an on-set movie casualty in October 2021.Luke Nikas, of the New York-based firm Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, is staunchly defending his client after he was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter...
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The Treasury Department has started taking ‘extraordinary measures’ as the government runs up against its legal borrowing capacity of US$38.381 trillion Most experts expect a deal to raise the debt ceiling, but intense partisan hostility between Biden and the Republicans is prompting fear of a potential default Published: 11:59pm, 19 Jan, 2023 Updated: 1:56am, 20...
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The Ripple boss hinted some optimism, stating that there may finally be a resolution to its legal battle with the SEC. While Ripple remains entangled in its legal battle, the company’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently mentioned some emails from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) while speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF). The event...
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More than 55 amateur rugby union players sent a letter of claim to World Rugby, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and England's Rugby Football Union (RFU) on Thursday to begin the pre-action phase of their lawsuit over possible brain injuries.The players allege that rugby's governing bodies negligently failed to protect them from concussion and non-concussion...
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Our Phrase of the Week is a new use of an old phrase: A bumping porcelain piggyback scam (碰瓷 pèngcí). Context Last week, the Beijing Daily reported on a new ride-hailing app, Strong Nation Transport (强国交通 qiángguó jiāotōng). The app apparently intends to rival Didi, the company that ate Uber alive in China but was...
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Port Harcourt Area 1 Command in Rivers State has seized 700 machetes and impounded four consignments. The NCS said the consignments with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N112.68million were illegally imported. The Comptroller, Ibrahim Muhammad spoke on Wednesday at the command’s port terminal in Port Harcourt. Muhammad said the consignments...
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