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World number one Scottie Scheffler has undergone surgery on a hand injury he sustained while cooking Christmas dinner. The 28-year-old American has been forced to withdraw from the first tournament of the season, next weekâs The Sentry in Hawaii, after cutting his right hand on broken glass. The PGA Tour said: âWorld number one and 2024 FedEx Cup Champion Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from the PGA Tourâs 2025 season-opening tournament, The Sentry, which will take place next week, January 2-5 at The Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii.â Scheffler, who won seven PGA Tour titles last year, hopes to…
The world celebrated the arrival of 2025 with spectacular fireworks displays and galas.New Zealand and Australia were some of the first countries to celebrate with fireworks displays at Auckland’s Sky Tower and Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.They were soon followed by Asia, which saw fireworks displays in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour and the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan.The Middle East joined in and despite the overthrow of the Assad regime and uncertainty about its future, Syrians still found time to celebrate.Europe soon joined the festivities with colourful fireworks celebrations at Berlin’s Brandenburg gate and the London Eye.The rest of America heralded the…
Investing.com — Oil services stocks could be entering a promising phase in 2025, if George Sorosâ âboom and bust sequence modelâ plays out as expected, according to Bernstein analysts. The sector is believed to be at the start of phase 4, which has historically aligned with strong equity returns driven by the gap between improving fundamentals and investor skepticism. âBased on this model, we would view European OFS stocks â and possibly, but to a lesser extent, North American stocks â as currently being at the beginning of phase 4,â Bernstein analysts led by Guillaume Delaby note. The fourth stage,…
The Protocol Support team is organizing a grant round to support the upcoming Ethereum KZG Ceremony. The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual that will provide a cryptographic foundation for Ethereum scaling initiatives like EIP-4844. Learn more about the Ceremony and participate in the test version at ceremony.ethereum.org. If you’d like funding support to contribute at a deeper level, there are two ways to qualify: writing your own implementationsubmitting entropy generated by non-traditional sources or through a unique process â APPLY BY JAN 31 or learn more below Writing your own implementation The best way to avoid a bug…
Top NFT Collections (Last 24h) Here are the hottest NFT Collections of the day. Rank Name Volume Transactions Chains URL 1 Pudgy Penguins 600.56 ETH 27 ethereum View 2 Azuki 383.60 ETH 31 ethereum View 3 Bored Ape Yacht Club 360.48 ETH 26 ethereum View 4 Lil Pudgys 264.35 ETH 115 ethereum View 5 Azuki Elementals 257.62 ETH 131 ethereum View 6 USDApe 238.00 ETH 538 polygon View 7 CryptoPunks 196.33 ETH 5 ethereum View 8 Fluid Vault 175.00 ETH 1 ethereum View 9 Kaito Genesis 141.08 ETH 12 ethereum View 10 OCH Genesis Ring 98.34 ETH 10 ethereum View…
For its entire existence as a global medium, the internet’s evolution has been caught in a tug of war, pulled by opposing forces: on one side, moderation and control; on the other, disruption and anarchy.This year, the most prominent actors weighing in on the side of disruption were familiar faces: The reckless oligarchs, cybercriminals, scammers, and state-sponsored hackers who made the internet feel particularly dangerous in 2024 were, to some degree, the same forces destabilizing the online world in 2023. But perhaps more than in any other recent year, those agents of chaos seemed to persist in the face of…
Itâs baaaack! After making its debut in August, Horrorâs Greatest has returned for more clips and chat about horrorâs most beloved sub-genres. Season one dug into Stephen King adaptations, giant monsters, Japanese horror, horror comedies, and tropes and clichĂ©s (with an emphasis on slasher films)âleaving plenty of room for more. This time, itâs animal attacks, film scores, hidden gems, space horror, and killer dates. A lot of the talking heads repeat; itâs pretty clear Horrorâs Greatest filmed both (or who knows how many) seasons back to back, and the list of interviewees again includes David Dastmalchian, Kate Siegel, Joe Hill,…
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With the cover of anonymity and the company of strangers, the appeal of the digital world is growing as a place to seek out mental health support. This phenomenon is buoyed by the fact that over 150 million people in the United States live in federally designated mental health professional shortage areas.âI really need your help, as I am too scared to talk to a therapist and I canât reach one anyways.ââAm I overreacting, getting hurt about husband making fun of me to his friends?ââCould some strangers please weigh in on my life and decide my future for me?âThe above quotes…
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea. One of several selfies on the Facebook page of Cameron Wagenius. Cameron John Wagenius was arrested near the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Dec. 20, after being indicted on two criminal counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records. The sparse, two-page indictment…