Daniel Sancho, a chef who made YouTube videos, was sentenced by a Thai court on Thursday to life in prison for killing Edwin Arrieta Arteaga last year in a hotel room on Koh Phangan, an island off the coast of southern Thailand. The trial heard that the 30-year-old killed Arrieta after the pair had a fight and put parts of ...
Pavel Durov, the chief executive of Telegram, is due in court later to face possible charges linked to alleged criminal activity on the platform. The billionaire founder of the encrypted messaging and social media app was arrested in France on Saturday after his private jet landed at Le Bourget airport outside Paris. The Russian-born entrepreneur – who became a French ...
UEFA insists there is no risk AI-assisted Champions League draw will be manipulated by cyber attacks
Champions League organisers have assured clubs and fans there is no possibility of the new AI-assisted draw for the men’s UEFA competition being manipulated tomorrow, with extra security in place to guard against cyber attacks. The traditional manual draw can no longer be solely relied on to determine fixtures as the competition has expanded from 32 to 36 teams with ...
US tech stocks are falling despite Nvidia, the chipmaker driving the artificial intelligence (AI) led stock market boom, reporting stronger than expected earnings. The company, which has been the darling of US markets with shares up 150% this year alone, reported second quarter revenue of just over $30bn – more than double the sum achieved in the same period a ...
The bosses of the world’s biggest social media companies have typically avoided personal repercussions, even when their platforms have faced scrutiny over their duties to their billions of users. Social media companies including Facebook, X and TikTok have repeatedly come under fire from policymakers for failing to sufficiently tackle the spread of misinformation, but their founders have maintained their distance ...
The FBI has still not determined what motivated a gunman to try to assassinate former president Donald Trump at a July campaign rally in Pennsylvania, officials with the federal law enforcement agency said on a call with reporters Wednesday. Federal officials sifted through five years’ worth of online activity by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks and said they found no credible ...
“If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.” — Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, in remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Aug. 25 Vance, in defending former president Donald Trump’s proposal for across-the-board tariffs, argued that Trump managed to bring back manufacturing jobs from overseas when he was president. ...
The details of the dispute over Donald Trump’s campaign aides shooting photos and video in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery matter, as I wrote earlier. If they were told that filming in this hallowed area wasn’t allowed — as a U.S. defense official tells The Washington Post they were, more than once — and bulldozed ahead, that would be ...
One of the defining characteristics of Donald Trump’s rallies is the emergence of an ad hoc marketplace of Trump-related merchandise. If it is made of cloth, is red and carries the name “Trump,” it’s there and it’s for sale. A businessman like Trump might be expected to have mixed feelings about such a display. On the one hand, it’s a ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz traveled across southern Georgia on Wednesday, the pair’s second bus tour in two weeks and their first burst of campaigning since the Democratic National Convention ended last Thursday. The tour, which is scheduled to end with a Harris rally in Savannah on Thursday, is the campaign’s latest effort ...