Новости за 29.03.2018

 Documents reveal Facebook was informed private user data, collected by a third party app, could be sold.  #BreakingNews: Facebook was informed that the app at the center of the data leak of 50 million users information could sell user data to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, according to a Financial Times reports. pic.twitter.com/3XgAGq1gqy — FOX Business […]

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah teenager accused of trying to set off a homemade bomb at his high school and defacing another school with pro-ISIS graffiti poses too big of a threat to public safety to be released before a preliminary hearing in May, a judge has ruled. Judge Paul Dame said Wednesday the unidentified 16-year-old will remain in juvenile detention. No explosion resulted and no one was hurt March 5 after a backpack with the explosive device was found emitting smoke in a common area of Pine View High School. Читать дальше...

Senior editor Derek Thompson to host new tech and culture podcast, "Crazy/Genius," launching in May

Concerns about confidentiality and immigration status were discovered months before the Department of Justice asked to add a question about citizenship.

München (dpa) - Die Freistellung von Basketball-Trainer Sasa Djordjevic beim Basketball-Tabellenführer FC Bayern München hat auch bei den Spielern für Verwunderung gesorgt. «Wir haben als Mannschaft die Nachricht heute Morgen überraschend bekommen, weil es ja eigentlich ganz gut für uns läuft. Wir müssen jetzt die nächsten Tage abwarten, was die Gründe dafür waren und diese analysieren», sagte Bayerns Nationalspieler Danilo Barthel am Donnerstagabend bei Telekom Sport am Rande des Eishockey-Playoffspiels... Читать дальше...

Opening Day is here! The Angels are in town to get the season started.

MONTREAT, N.C. – After a close match on Wednesday, the Milligan Buffaloes departed Montreat with a hard-fought 5-4 win over the Cavaliers men's tennis team.

Felix Garcia came to the United States in 1995 and sought asylum. Belsy Garcia was only 7 at the time. She said her father was fleeing persecution.

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it is making progress weeding out fake accounts and fake news on its service. The moves are aimed at preventing election interference ahead of the U.S. midterms. Samidh Chakrabarti, a product manager, said in a conference call Thursday that Facebook is using machine learning to block fake accounts before they spread misinformation, rather than wait for reports from users. Suspicious accounts are then reviewed by humans — similar to ways Facebook monitors other malicious content. Читать дальше...

Back in February, I wrote a blog post, "Don't Attack Lefty Human Shields."

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s military adviser Hossein Dehghan has likened defiant former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “the door of a mosque, which may not be burnt or thrown away,” an allusion to the fact that Ahmadinjad is part and parcel of the Islamic regime in Iran regardless of his harsh criticism of Khamenei and his government. Speaking to the conservative weekly magazine Mosallas, Dehghan used the ironic Persian proverb, stressing that Ahmadinejad has always been the same during... Читать дальше...

Indigenous women are taking back their power as life-givers.

This portrait of Zintkala Mahpiya Win Blackowl and her daughter, Mni Wiconi, was created by Indigenous photographer Tomás Karmelo Amaya on Nov. 16, 2016, moments before a women’s meeting at Oceti Sakowin. Credit: Tomás Karmelo Amaya/YES! Magazine.

Zintkala Mahpiya Win Blackowl didn’t plan to have her sixth baby in a tipi on the windy plains of North Dakota during a historic resistance. Thousands of people... Читать дальше...

Renowned Nollywood actor and poet, Femi Branch, has added another feather to his cap with his recent installation by the Timi of Edeland, Oba Munirudeen Adesola Lawal, Laminisa I as Jagun, a few weeks ago. Read more.

PARIS – A vegan in France who posted a Facebook message offering “zero sympathy” for a butcher killed by an Islamist militant during an attack last week has been arrested and could face prison for the remarks, police and prosecutors said. The vegan was due to go before a judge on a charge of condoning...

Air Malta will start a once weekly service to the Ukrainian capital Kiev in June. Flights will be on Tuesdays starting from June 19.   Paul Sies, Chief Commercial Officer, said Air Malta was increasing services to Eastern Europe. Ukraine was a new market and the scheduled flights would stimulate more passenger traffic between both countries. Airline chairman Charles Mangion said Ukraine was a welcome addition to Air Malta’s 33 other destinations for this summer.  Minister of Tourism Konrad Mizzi... Читать дальше...

CANTON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say remains found near a highway in Massachusetts have been identified as those of a Marine recruit whose disappearance has been under investigation by police. The Norfolk District Attorney's Office said Thursday that the body found a day earlier is 21-year-old Joseph Brancato. The office says an autopsy performed Thursday didn't immediately establish a cause of death. A person spotted the remains in the woods off Interstate 95 on Wednesday after the person stopped... Читать дальше...

West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite will miss the upcoming T20 international series in Pakistan over security concerns, while wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin was given a recall on Thursday.

What does it take to get some peace and quiet around here? 

You know the drill: You're submerged in distracting office chatter at work, and once you get home, family members or roommates are suddenly the loudest people you know — or your neighbor is throwing a party on a Tuesday night. And when you're traveling, you're always seated within an ear-shot of the kid that won't stop crying.

Headphones are a great way to drown out the sound, but no matter how high you turn up the volume... Читать дальше...

Once out of prison, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 22, was supposed to get the OK to have any device that could access the Internet. He didn't, the feds say.

Forty-five percent of UK citizens believe that London's decision to leave the European Union was wrong, while 42 percent approve of it just one year before their country is set to leave the bloc, a fresh YouGov survey showed on Thursday.

The chief of army staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has vowed that those who killed 11 soldiers on March 20, in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna state must account for their crime. Buratai made the statement on Thursday, March 29, in Kaduna.

A former teacher in Arkansas accused of having sex with several students – including two in the same night – pleaded guilty to sexual indecency with a child. Jessie Lorene Goline, 26, entered the plea and was sentenced Tuesday to serve 42 months probation for inappropriate relationships with four students while she was a teacher at...

Russia will expel 60 US diplomats and close the US Consulate in St. Petersburg, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, in retaliation for a similar move by Washington. The 60 diplomats — 58 from the US mission in Moscow and two from Yekaterinburg — were declared “persona non grata” for activities “incompatible with diplomatic status,” the ministry said, ordering them to leave the country by April 5. US Ambassador Jon Huntsman had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry to be told […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Mississippi State wants to write some more history in the women's college basketball world. For now at least, the Bulldogs are best remembered as the team that ended UConn's 111-game winning streak in last year's national semifinal, knocking off the mighty Huskies in overtime on a buzzer-beater by guard Morgan William. It was the shot heard around world, overshadowing Mississippi State's loss in the final to South Carolina. With virtually the same guard-strong lineup as last year... Читать дальше...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Mississippi State wants to write some more history in the women's college basketball world. For now at least, the Bulldogs are best remembered as the team that ended UConn's 111-game winning streak in last year's national semifinal, knocking off the mighty Huskies in overtime on a buzzer-beater by guard Morgan William. It was the shot heard around world, overshadowing Mississippi State's loss in the final to South Carolina. With virtually the same guard-strong lineup as last year... Читать дальше...