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India says it has pulled out its envoy to Canada along with other diplomats after Canada accused agents of the Indian government of involvement in “homicides, extortion and and violent acts” on Canadian soil. Canadian police said the criminal activity had particularly targeted supporters of the Khalistan movement which seeks a separate homeland for Sikhs in India. They said a dozen of agents had been involved, but did not confirm if they were directly linked to the June 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Delhi rejected the allegations as “preposterous” and said they were part of Prime…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Shares of UK-based bookmakers fell sharply on Monday on concerns that the government could raise taxes on gaming companies in this month’s Budget.Entain, the London-listed gambling group that owns Ladbrokes, plunged by as much as 14 per cent in early trading after a newspaper report on Friday that chancellor Rachel Reeves was weighing possible tax increases on the sector worth up to £3bn. While they subsequently partially recovered, shares in the company closed 8 per cent lower.Shares of rival Flutter, which owns…
As Prime Day enters its final hours this Monday, Amazon continues to offer an exceptional deal on AirTags that shoppers won’t want to overlook. These popular tracking devices are currently available at prices that make them an absolute steal but time is running out to take advantage of this offer. Single AirTags are now priced at just $24 down from their regular $29, while the four-pack is an even better bargain at $79 reduced from its usual $99 price tag. See AirTag for $24 at Amazon See 4-Pack of AirTags for $79 at Amazon Incredibly simple These discounts are some…
Getty ImagesThe cult classic’s guerilla techniques and daring subject matter helped to kickstart a new era. Just before its release in 1969, the BBC interviewed its director, Dennis Hopper, discovering an actor as idiosyncratic as his film.On 17 October 1969, Easy Rider burst on to cinema screens through a psychedelic haze. Infused with rock music, free love and drug-taking, this low-budget, freewheeling road movie vividly captured the counterculture spirit of the late 1960s, as well as the US’s bubbling social tensions.The film tells the story of two free-spirited bikers, moustachioed hippy Billy, played by its director, Dennis Hopper, and leather-clad…
The price of MicroStrategy stock surging above $200, the MSTR bulls were out in force last week, insufferably posting about how Michael Saylor’s tech firm, a once dead tech company from the dot-com era, will outperform everything again this cycle. Look, I’m not going to even start parsing the hokum. You can follow BitPaine, Dan Hillery, or one of the hundreds of Bitcoin X accounts which now comprise the MSTR bull twitterverse. There’s videos, threads, and of course, a lot of people who are irresponsibly long…But the general gist is this:Michael Saylor’s has decided to buy over 200,000 BTC, and to…
The Special Contribution Period for the KZG Ceremony ran 01-16 April 2023. This allowed participants to contribute in ways that may not have been possible in the Open Contribution period. While the Ceremony only needs a single honest participant to provide a secure output, Special Contributions provide additional assurances beyond a standard entropy contribution: computing over the entropy in an isolated environment (eg. on an airgapped machine, wiping and physically destroying hardware) means that it’s unlikely for a malicious entity to have extracted the entropy at any point.detailed documentation (explore links below) attached to real reputations are unlikely to all…
Politics / October 11, 2024 Beyond hobbling Kamala Harris’s campaign, Biden is leaving behind a disaster that will last decades. Ad Policy A Palestinian man holds the dead body of his cousin that he pulled from the rubble after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City.(Belal Khaled / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) For Joe Biden, words and actions never need to match up when it comes to handling America’s relationship with Israel. In fact, Biden has a peculiar tic: He’ll grouse in private about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and even make public speeches advising Israeli restraint. But these words…
At the top of many automation wish lists is a particularly time-consuming task: chores. The moonshot of many roboticists is cooking up the proper hardware and software combination so that a machine can learn “generalist” policies (the rules and strategies that guide robot behavior) that work everywhere, under all conditions. Realistically, though, if you have a home robot, you probably don’t care much about it working for your neighbors. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers decided, with that in mind, to attempt to find a solution to easily train robust robot policies for very specific environments.“We aim for robots to…
“As part of the resolutions with the FTC and the state attorneys general, Marriott will continue implementing enhancements to its data privacy and information security programs, many of which are already in place or in progress,” said the statement. “Protecting guests’ personal data remains a top priority for Marriott. These resolutions reaffirm the company’s continued focus on and significant investments in maintaining and adapting its programs and systems to assess, identify, and manage risks from evolving cybersecurity threats.” Penalties insufficient, say experts Roger Grimes, a defense evangelist at cybersecurity training company KnowBe4, cautioned security executives to not assume that the…