Fraudsters use stolen personal details to send out products, then post a fake verified and positive online review
A package arrives but you can’t remember ordering anything.
When you open it, you find some cheap, flimsy jewellery.
Continue reading...Writers from George Eliot to Goethe put this Lombardy town on the map, then it fell out of fashion. Today it makes a picture-perfect alternative to the Italian lakes
The ancient settlement of Chiavenna, in Lombardy, near Italy’s border with Switzerland, was once well known among travellers. “Lovely Chiavenna … mountain peaks, huge boulders, with rippling miniature torrents and lovely young flowers … and grassy heights with rich Spanish chestnuts,” wrote George Eliot in 1860.
Eliot wasn’t the only writer to rhapsodise about this charming town. Edith Wharton described it as “fantastically picturesque … an exuberance of rococo”. For Mary Shelley it was “paradise … glowing in rich and sunny vegetation”, while Goethe described it as “like a dream”.
Continue reading...Few outsiders, if any, have ventured more widely into the centre of Sudan’s brutal civil war than Jérôme Tubiana. The French humanitarian has been granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the western region of Darfur to document the heart of a conflict that has created the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. His powerful images offer insights into a gruelling war that shows no sign of abating, but where hope endures that one day the killing might stop
Continue reading...Agenic AI apps first interview you and then give you limited matches selected for ‘similarity and reciprocity of personality’
Dating apps exploit you, dating profiles lie to you, and sex is basically something old people used to do. You might as well consider it: can AI help you find love?
For a handful of tech entrepreneurs and a few brave Londoners, the answer is “maybe”.
Continue reading...Jim Boyling gave evidence under his fake identity during prosecution of activists he had infiltrated
Senior police officers praised an undercover officer who had lied to a court about his real identity during a prosecution of environmental activists, secret documents aired at the spycops public inquiry have revealed.
Jim Boyling, an undercover officer, gave evidence under his fake identity when he was prosecuted while masquerading as an activist. He was prosecuted alongside six campaigners for public order offences, but senior officers decided not to tell the court that he was actually a police spy.
Continue reading...The fight for Hope Moor is set to be repeated across the UK as the government aims to hit its renewable energy targets
Instead of a slingshot, the Davids are brandishing a sculpture and a coffee table book. Their Goliaths are a Norwegian energy company and a UK energy secretary with renewable targets to meet.
A fierce battle has begun over one of England’s tallest windfarms, proposed for deep peat moorland overlooking the Yorkshire Dales national park, in what residents say will mark the irrevocable industrialisation of their rural landscape.
Continue reading...Worst weather forecast to hit late on Sunday, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses and home evacuations
New Zealand’s weather bureau has warned more flooding could hit the country’s North Island, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses, home evacuations and caused the death of a man whose vehicle was submerged on a highway.
There was “threat to life from dangerous river conditions, significant flooding and slips” as a deepening low-pressure system east of the North Island brought heavy rain and severe gales to several regions, the weather bureau said.
Continue reading...GENÈVE (ANP) - Iran is klaar om over compromissen te praten met de Verenigde Staten, zegt onderminister van Buitenlandse Zaken Majid Takht-Ravanchi tegen de BBC. Maar hij vindt dat de Amerikanen dan ook bereid moeten zijn om te praten over het stoppen van sancties tegen zijn land.
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zet Iran de afgelopen weken steeds meer onder druk om snel een deal te sluiten over het Iraanse atoomprogramma. Delegaties uit beide landen praten komende week verder in Genève.
Amerikaanse functionarissen stellen dat Iran de onderhandelingen dwarsboomt, maar Takht-Ravanchi zegt dat het nu aan de VS is om over de brug te komen. "Als ze oprecht zijn, ben ik er zeker van dat we op weg zijn naar een akkoord."
Trump heeft gedreigd met nieuwe aanvallen op de Iraanse nucleaire installaties als er geen deal gesloten wordt. De VS en Israël bombardeerden die faciliteiten vorige zomer ook al.
