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Brian WheelerPolitical reporterReutersThe French navy intercepts a suspected Russian shadow fleet tankerThe UK is working with allies on plans to seize Russian “shadow fleet” vessels – and wants to use the oil they are carrying to fund Ukraine’s war effort, Defence Secretary John Healey has said.Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has used hundreds of ageing tankers with obscured ownership – known as the shadow fleet – to evade sanctions on its oil exports.Earlier this year, British forces assisted US troops in seizing an oil tanker, which American officials accused of carrying oil for Venezuela, Russia and Iran, breaking US…
There’s lots more on Arsenal but attention now turns to Liverpool and the unlucky Arne Slot; nothing is going his way. Send your views on anything – Cole Palmer, maybe? – to theeditor@football365.com The new Spursy? The only thing funnier than Arsenal bottling this season would be them finishing third in what looked like a one-horse race.Sanjit (Lads, it’s Arsenal) Randhawa, Kuala Lumpur Anatomy of a Bottle Job: Eight factors to separate the true choke from a mere collapse Arsenal are actually pretty good Dear God I have read some reactionist nonsense recently about Arsenal. Yes, they lost…
Image: prima91/Adobe Stock Android users often praise the brand for offering native sideloading functionality on their devices. For those who don’t know, sideloading is the process of downloading and installing third-party apps from sources outside the official store. While sideloading is possible with Apple iPhones, it involves a highly technical workaround that many users won’t bother with. The fact that Android allows sideloading right out of the box has always set it apart from its competition. Thanks to an upcoming change, however, Android users will soon find it more difficult to download and install third-party apps. However, Google’s Matthew Forsythe…
A new and distinct wave of voice phishing (vishing) attacks attributed to the notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective is spreading fast, with defenders urged to be on their guard following breaches affecting at least three major organisations so far. The campaign appears to involve custom vishing kits targeting Google, Microsoft and Okta environments – as Okta itself warned last week – and may have already ensnared business intelligence specialist Crunchbase, music streaming platform SoundCloud, and financial planning and investment firm Betterment. Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Google Cloud’s Mandiant, is among those following the campaign as it develops. “Mandiant…
Amazon is rethinking its grocery business, and as part of that, it will shut down all of its remaining Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores. The company will convert some locations into Whole Foods Market stores.”While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion,” the company wrote in a blog post. Amazon added that it would help workers at Go and Fresh stores to find positions elsewhere within the company.For now, Amazon is focusing its grocery efforts on Fresh…
Soroush Negahdari,BBC MonitoringandGhoncheh Habibiazad,BBC PersianWANA via REUTERSIranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January”My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests.”For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this month was unlike anything she had witnessed before.”In the most widespread previous protests, I didn’t personally know a single person who had been killed,” she said.Parisa said she knew at least 13 people who had been killed since protests over worsening economic conditions erupted in the capital on 28 December…
The Home Secretary talks to Matt Chorley on his radio show.
Premier League titles could be “revisited” once Manchester City’s Financial Fair Play case concludes, though a verdict is still a long way away. Can anyone remember a time before Man City‘s FFP case was a thing? It is now nearly three years since Man City were charged by the Premier League over 115 alleged charges of FFP regulations. The Premier League referred Pep Guardiola’s side to an independent commission following a four-year probe into their alleged conduct between 2009 and 2018, with the club facing a huge fine, points deduction, transfer ban and/or expulsion if found guilty. The club and…
Volvo is plotting a flagship three-row hybrid SUV to sit above the XC90 to cater to rising demand for ‘F-segment’ models in the US and China. At just over five metres long, the XC90 is already one of the largest hybrid SUVs on sale in Europe, but Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson has confirmed that “bigger SUVs are something we’re looking into”. He added that the Swedish company had “still not made any decision on going there” but acknowledged strong demand for such cars in some of its most important markets. “Especially in China and the US, the real three-row SUV is a growing…
Meta’s WhatsApp just introduced , a tool “that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks.” This is a one-click button in the settings that automatically initiates a series of defenses.So what does it do? It blocks media and attachments from unknown senders, disables link previews and silences calls from unknown senders. This results in a more restrictive experience, but hopefully a safer one.The company says this isn’t necessarily for regular users, as conversations are already protected by end-to-end encryption. Instead, this is being pitched as a tool for “journalists or public-facing figures” that “may need extreme safeguards against…