NEW YORK (ANP) - Chipconcern Nvidia is op de beurs in New York onderuitgegaan door een affaire van topman Jensen Huang. Hij heeft toegegeven een romance te hebben gehad met een vrouw die wordt verdacht van spionage voor China. Beleggers vragen zich onder meer af of Huang nu nog wel kan aanblijven bij Nvidia. Ze hebben het aandeel maandag zo'n 8 procent lager gezet. Dat betekent dat er meer dan 350 miljard dollar aan beurswaarde in rook is opgegaan.
De 63-jarige Huang heeft de affaire openlijk in een memo aan zijn personeel toegegeven. "Ik ben mijn vrouw ontrouw geweest", formuleerde hij, met de toevoeging dat het hem heel erg spijt. Zijn bedrijf heeft een onderzoek ingesteld na mediaberichten dat Huang mogelijk het doelwit is geweest van een buitenlandse inlichtingenoperatie.
Russell Brand is maandag veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van 10,5 jaar. De Britse acteur en komiek werd vorige week schuldig bevonden aan een verkrachting en drie gevallen van aanranding. Sindsdien zat hij al vast. De rechter had Brand al gewaarschuwd dat hij rekening moest houden met een aanzienlijke gevangenisstraf.
Toilet paper purveyor Who Gives A Crap has found itself in a bit of a mess after an intruder accessed customer information through a third-party software provider, leaving the company scrambling to clean up a breach affecting shoppers in the UK, US, and Australia. In an email sent to affected customers over the weekend, seen by The Register, the loo roll seller warns that personal information was accessed without authorization after a security incident at an unnamed US-based marketing software provider. The email explains that the intruder gained access to the supplier's systems on October 30. The provider spotted the intrusion the following day and says it secured its systems by November 1, although Who Gives A Crap wasn't told until November 6. It's unclear why the supplier sat on the bad news for another five days before passing it on. The exposed information includes customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and total spending with the company. In other words, someone may now know not only where you live, but just how much of your hard-earned cash you've flushed down the crapper. Payment information, order details, and passwords were not involved, and customers' accounts were not directly accessed. That's something of a relief, although whether the intruder actually made off with the data remains a pressing question. "We don't yet know whether the information was copied or downloaded," the company told customers, adding that it had found no evidence of misuse. In a separate public statement, Who Gives A Crap co-founder and CEO Simon Griffiths confirmed that the incident affected customers across the company's Australian, UK, and US stores. Canadian customers, meanwhile, appear to have escaped this particular toilet emergency, with the supplier reporting that no personal information belonging to shoppers in the country was accessed. Who Gives A Crap says it has since disconnected the provider from its systems, changed access credentials, and begun warning affected customers to watch out for suspicious emails, texts, calls, and other unsolicited communications. "The main concern is scam or phishing messages that use your real details to look convincing," the company warned in its customer email. While Who Gives A Crap has been busy cleaning up, the supplier at the center of this particular stink remains a mystery. The company hasn't identified the software provider or disclosed how many customers were affected, including those in the UK, and didn’t respond to our questions. Griffiths said the company is "engaging with the relevant regulatory authorities, as required." In the UK, the ICO told The Register: "We can confirm Who Gives A Crap Limited has reported an incident and we are assessing the information provided." Who Gives A Crap has plenty of toilet paper to hand, although cleaning up this particular situation might require more than a few rolls. ®
Good Monday morning. Last week, the UK imposed one of the strictest, most vague (and therefore overly broad) new laws around pornography in recent memory. Recording yourself having consensual kinky sex in private could come with jail time, as could watching other people do it. And sex workers are the ones to feel the repercussions of bad laws like these first, of course, with many reporting content disappearing from their online stores en masse. Keep reading to learn more about what it covers, and how creators are responding.
In the UK, Face Sitting Porn Might Land You in Jail
“I adore breath play. I love being strangled, suffocated and drowned, and I love strangling and suffocating others. Waterboarding: that’s my favourite,” Melissa Todd, a UK-based writer and sex worker, told me. “Many women do: it really isn’t only horrid men forcing us to do these dreadful depraved acts. Interrupting oxygen supply produces the most intense sensation of euphoria. I enjoy it in my private life, and I offer it in sessions too.”
Starting Friday, she and anyone else in the UK distributing or possessing certain types of choking, suffocation, breath play, strangulation and a bunch of other types of porn — even if it’s just recorded in the privacy of their homes and not for sale on a porn site — could face up to five years in prison.
This is, predictably, already a huge mess for sex workers. Adult creators watched platforms remove hundreds of their videos — even when the creators thought they were in compliance with the law. These creators say they were blindsided by the removals, since the content didn’t seem to violate the law at all. Creators are reporting one platform in particular, Clips4Sale, is purging content with little notice, “a precautionary measure,” with videos disappearing in the hundreds.
“Of course, we were all aware of the new Act coming in and prepared accordingly, but not for anything at this scale. We've had nothing since and they've been tweeting as normal,” adult creator Sophia Truee said. Clips4Sale launched in 2003 and caters heavily to fetish content. “It's a huge blow to this area of the industry, and I can only hope things will be communicated soon. We, as creators, understand how difficult it is to be a content site in this current climate, but communication has not been prioritized,” Truee said, noting that this is happening right before the holidays, with Black Friday being one of the most popular times for creators selling content. “For many, this will be devastating, as over 20 years of the work will have just been wiped.”
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Nevermind! Following widespread backlash, Meta announced last week it’s putting a planned update of its commercial terms of use on pause. The terms would have required business accounts to allow Meta to “use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta’s products. The new terms were initially set to go into effect on October 30, but after outcry from journalists and users who didn’t want Meta reaching far beyond Instagram and Facebook and into their websites to suck up their work as training data for its generative AI products, Meta announced it was pushing the change to November 20. Now, it’s on hold entirely.
Whoa, dude. Archaeologists discovered the oldest direct evidence of psychoactive cannabis use in a Siberian tomb that dates back 2,800 years and was the site of human and horse sacrifices. During excavations of the tomb, a team found more than 1,400 cannabis seeds scattered around the remains of several Iron Age individuals, and even identified cannabinoids—including the active compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—in a person’s preserved hair. Though humans cultivated cannabis for many millennia before the Iron Age, this is by far the earliest clear-cut proof that the plant was consumed for its psychoactive effects, which have made it one of the most widely used drugs in the world today.
Disgraced actor and comedian, 51, was described as a ruthless and manipulative sexual predator during trial
Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for raping a fan and sexually assaulting three other women at the height of his showbusiness career.
Brand, 51, was found guilty after a four-week trial at Southwark crown court in which he was described as a ruthless and manipulative sexual predator.
Continue reading...Roma and Lazio have both made unbeaten starts to the Serie A season, giving those in the Italian capital dreams of a Scudetto
After nine games in 28 days, Gian Piero Gasperini finally got a moment to pause and reflect on Sunday night. The Roma manager was back in Liguria, where he worked for the best part of a decade across two stints at Genoa, to collect an award from Stelle Nello Sport – an association formed to promote sport in the region – celebrating his career achievements and commitment to courageous attacking football.
The timing worked out well. Gasperini’s Roma thumped Sassuolo 3-0 on Saturday, bouncing back from a midweek loss to Manchester United. That result meant the Giallorossi had scored 31 times in 11 Serie A games. In the last 65 years only two Italian teams – the Juventus and Napoli sides of 2017-18 – had ever made a more prolific start to a top-flight campaign. More importantly, Roma’s victory meant they remained undefeated in domestic competition this season. Just like their neighbours Lazio, who drew 1-1 away to Napoli in Sunday’s early kick-off.
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Hem erin in Huangen, kent u die uitdrukking? We kennen NVIDIA-CEO Jensen Huang als de machtigste nog levende Jensen, een exentriek techtypje en een meer dan vaardig Trump-likker, maar je kunt dus al die dingen zijn en aan het eind van de dag nog steeds je lul achterna lopen. Want ja, de al dan niet siliconen vallei van de buurvrouw lijkt soms gewoon net iets zachter en dat die buurvrouw dan toevallig Chinees is en enkel tot een hoogtepunt kan komen als je op zwoele toon gevoelige bedrijfsinformatie in haar linkeroor fluistert zal toch zeker niet uitmaken? Nou, jawel. Zo trap je dus in de oudste truc in het rooie boekje. Madam blijkt mogelijk spion, NVIDIA start onderzoek naar de affaire. Grote shitshow, chapeau China. Gelukkig heeft het Westen nog de MEMES.
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