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I took this photo at the “Shinsaibashi-suji Shopping Street ” with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Osaka, Japan. Located just north of the Dotonbori Bridge, this nearly mile-long, roofed arcade is Osaka's oldest and busiest shopping street. It features a mix of international brands, local boutiques, and cafes…

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I took this photo of the “Dotonbori River Shopping Area” with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Osaka, Japan. The Dotonbori River area is Osaka’s premier entertainment and culinary hub. While famous for its street food and neon signs, it connects directly to massive, covered shopping arcades…It is lively and comes alive at night…

Microsoft seized websites and took down hundreds of virtual machines running a cybercrime service that allegedly sold code-signing certificates to ransomware gangs, thus making their malware look like legitimate software – and allowing criminals to infect thousands of machines in the US, including at least 12 owned and operated by the Windows giant. The malware signing-as-a-service operation called Fox Tempest has been around since May 2025, and abuses Microsoft’s Artifact Signing code-signing service. This service allows developers to digitally sign their software applications, signaling to the Windows operating system and end-user that the software is authentic, and hasn’t been tampered with. Since May 2025, the Fox Tempest crew – referred to as John Doe 1 and 2 in court documents unsealed on Tuesday – used fake identities and impersonated real organizations, allowing them to create more than 580 fraudulent Microsoft accounts. They then used these accounts to abuse Microsoft’s Artifact Signing service and obtain real code-signing credentials, then sold the code-signing certificates to other criminals for thousands of dollars. According to Microsoft, Fox Tempest’s customers included a ransomware group Redmond tracks as Vanilla Tempest (aka Vice Spider, Vice Society, Rhysida), which allegedly used the certificates to digitally sign malware and make it appear legitimate to Windows and users. This also allowed the ransomware slingers “to more easily deploy the malware onto the computers of unsuspecting victims without their consent,” according to the court documents [PDF]. Malware included Windows backdoor Oyster, infostealers Lumma and Vidar, and Rhysida ransomware. Vanilla Tempest “unlawfully accessed victims’ computers and devices, exfiltrated and stole the personal and confidential information of victims, deployed ransomware designed to encrypt victims’ files and systems, and extorted victims by demanding payment in exchange for restoring access to, or suppressing, their data,” the civil complaint continues, adding that the criminal activity remains ongoing. In a subsequent blog post, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit attorney Steven Masada said the tech company's investigation “further linked Fox Tempest to various additional ransomware affiliates and families, including INC, Qilin, Akira, and others.” Between February and March, the Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), working with “a cooperating source,” anonymously bought and tested the code signing service from John Doe 2, aka SamCodeSign. “These test purchases allowed DCU investigators to observe first-hand how Fox Tempest Defendants operate the service, the information a purchaser is provided, and the instructions given by SamCodeSign to connect to the service and sign the test software created by Microsoft,” the court documents say. “Additionally, the test purchases allowed DCU to identify cryptocurrency wallets used by Fox Tempest Defendants.” During the first test purchase, the source filled out a Google Form asking them to select how quickly they needed the certificates. Standard costs $5,000, while priority runs $7,500 and expedited carries a hefty $9,500 price tag. SamCodeSign then sent a direct message to the source and requested the $7,500 payment to be sent to a bitcoin wallet, according to screenshots (translated from Russian) in the court documents. After the source paid up, SamCodeSign sent instructions on how to access the virtual machine and complete the code signing process. “Microsoft has identified thousands of customer machines, including more than a dozen machines owned and operated by Microsoft, in the United States that have been impacted by malware signed with certificates originating from the tenants created by Fox Tempest Defendants,” the complaint says. ®

The firearms the shooters, aged 17 and 18, used in the fatal rampage were registered to one of their parents

The two teenage assailants responsible for a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, rushed toward the mosque “fully armored” with handguns and rifles, authorities said.

A security guard shot and struck one of the shooters, according to members of the mosque – but the attacker continued charging. The guard also alerted administrators of the school at the Islamic Center, telling them to go into lockdown, before he was shot and killed. “If it was not for him … The carnage would be much worse,” said imam Taha Hassane. “He sacrificed his life.”

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⚽ Gunners win fourth Premier League title after City held
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We’ll keep the focus here on Arsenal’s title win – so Gunners fans, drop me a line here wherever you are. I have to give a shoutout to my friends from uni, Andy and James. We watched the Invicibles’ parade on a beaten-up telly at our student digs in Cardiff, and it’s been a long, long wait for them to celebrate again. Congratulations, chaps.

Pep Guardiola has offered his congratulations to Arsenal and Arteta, his former assistant at Manchester City. “We were close. On behalf of everyone at Manchester City, we congratulate Mikel and all the staff, players and fans on winning the Premier League. They deserve it, for so much hard work and effort.

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Declan Rice, David Raya and the defence stood out in Arsenal’s first league title since the Invincibles

David Raya There is a strong argument that the Spaniard was not only Arsenal’s player of the season but the best in the division. From his brilliant save to deny Manchester United’s Matheus Cunha on the opening weekend to an extraordinary stop against Mateus Fernandes of West Ham and many more, Raya has repeatedly rescued his team on his way to a third successive Golden Glove award for most clean sheets. 9

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Tottenham’s woes in this corner of London are well-established and well-documented. When they made this latest trip to Stamford Bridge, the statistics showed they had won just once since 1990 – a sequence of 40 matches in all competitions.

Never mind. They needed only a draw to effectively ensure their Premier League survival, to send West Ham down and draw a veil over this most wretched of seasons.

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OSTRAVA (ANP) - Femke Broeders-Bol komt al uit op de 800 meter op de Gouden Spike in het Tsjechische Ostrava op 16 juni. Dat is vijf dagen voor haar race op de FBK Games in Hengelo, zo maakte de organisatie van de atletiekmeeting in Tsjechië bekend.

Broeders-Bol maakte na jaren van successen op de 400 meter horden en 400 meter deze winter de overstap naar de 800 meter. Ze liep in februari in Metz bij haar eerste optreden een Nederlands indoorrecord van 1.59,07. Een voetblessure noopte de Amersfoortse vervolgens tot een rustperiode.

De 800 meter in Ostrava wordt haar eerste outdoorwedstrijd, kondigt de Gouden Spike aan.

The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some "lower-value human capital" through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. "It's not cost-cutting. It's replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we're putting in," CEO Bill Winters told reporters. "So, the people that want to reskill, that want to carry on, we're giving every opportunity to reposition," Winters said. Reuters reports: The cuts, alongside higher shareholder return targets announced in a strategy update, come as StanChart is at the tail-end of a decade-long effort to transform itself from a potential takeover target to a steadily profitable lender. Its London-listed shares, which have risen 65% in the last 12 months, fell 0.5% in early trading, as analysts said the new targets were at the conservative end of their expectations.

"In a world full of uncertainty, performance may prove more challenging further out," said Ed Firth, analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, citing how the bank has benefited in recent years from high interest rates and huge wealth flows. StanChart's move to streamline operations and rein in costs comes as more global firms slash jobs by deploying AI to improve efficiency. Japanese lender Mizuho in March unveiled up to 5,000 job cuts over a decade. And banks globally are scrambling to integrate frontier AI models and fend off rising cyber threats.

The most affected roles will be in the bank's back-office centres, including those in Chennai, Bengaluru, Kuala Lumpur and Warsaw, according to Winters. "Of course we're using AI along the way and AI will be a huge facilitator and enabler of that," he added, referring to its ongoing revamp to automate more of its core banking system. StanChart said it would deliver over 15% return on tangible equity in 2028, more than three percentage points higher than in 2025, and building to about 18% in 2030. Meta also announced plans to reassign 7,000 employees into AI-related initiatives, just ahead of layoffs expected to affect roughly 8,000 workers.

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A spectacular evening view of the vibrant Dutch tulip fields during a beautiful sunset. The colorful rows of red and yellow tulips stretch towards the horizon, perfectly illuminated by the warm, low sun. The textured cloud cover adds a dramatic touch to this quintessential springtime scene in the Netherlands.