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  7. An Atlanta woman says the rapper paid for her entire grocery bill, when he noticed she couldn't afford the items on the conveyor belt. When an Atlanta woman who had fallen on hard times didn't have enough money to pay for her groceries at Whole Foods, she was at her breaking point. But then a kind stranger in front of her in line offered to pay--the whole bill. She had no idea who the stranger was until a cashier clued her in: It was the rapper Ludacris. Therra Gwyn-Jaramillo has been "struggling on and off," since her beloved husband died of cancer in the summer of 2014. "There wasn't a part of my life that wasn't destroyed - emotional, physical, financial," Gwyn-Jaramillo told CBS News. She was left to take care of "a practical menagerie of rescued animals," her disabled brother and her home. While she has been freelance writing to keep her head above water, a recent hit of $4,000 for home repairs and a late check put her in a dire situation in July. Thankfully, a friend stepped in to help and provided her with a $250 Whole Foods gift card. Therra Gwyn-Jaramillo pictured with one of four of her rescue dogs. So, she went to Whole Foods, but at the checkout counter realized she didn't have enough money on the card to cover her items. That's when the stranger in front of her stepped in. "I had zero interaction with him before he decided to buy my groceries. I tried to put things back and he said, 'I said I got this. All of this. Don't put anything back!' recounts Gwyn-Jaramillo. "He started putting the stuff I was going to put back onto the conveyor belt. I was stunned." Gwyn-Jaramillo says she responded to the "nice-looking man," by "crying." "I finally managed to say 'What is your name?' and introduce myself. He said, simply, 'Chris,' and shook my hand," Gwyn-Jaramillo recounted. She spoke with the stranger after his kind deed, telling CBS News, the man asked her about her rescue dogs after noticing dog food on the conveyor belt. 'I talked to him through my tears and finally asked, 'Who ARE you?' says Gwyn-Jaramillo. "He looked at me and said 'Just a person. Just a guy.' I kept thinking, 'Does he know? Does he know he's an angel? " It turns out the stranger was not, in fact, "just a guy," after all. Gwyn-Jaramillo said while he looked familiar, and says she is a fan of the Grammy-winning rapper, she didn't place him until a cashier filled her in. "WHAT I screamed," Gwyn-Jaramillo told CBS News. "People were smiling and laughing (and probably rolling their eyes that I just now 'got it' about who he was)." She says she was inspired to write, a now viral, Facebook post about her encounter. "This event taught me something I thought I already knew. It taught me the true power of being kind to strangers. He's probably done this hundreds of time. But I couldn't forget it," Gwyn-Jaramillo said. The Georgia-based writer explained that the encounter has had lasting effects on her, and hopes the story will encourage others to be kind,"The gift he gave me, the lesson, will long last after the groceries are gone." Ludacris' publicist hasn't responded to CBS News requests for comment.
  8. Two comedy legends as two other, slightly bigger comedy legends We've got a first look at John C Reilly and Steve Coogan in their biopic of Laurel and Hardy, Stan & Ollie, which follows the ageing double act on their 1953 tour of Britain. Reilly plays Hardy while Coogan will be applying his gift for impersonation to Stan Laurel. The pair's wives will be played by Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter, Trainspotting) and Nina Arianda (Master of None, Florence Foster Jenkins) and the script is by Coogan's Philomena collaborator Jeff Pope. Laurel and Hardy's British tour ended up being their swansong as Hardy's health deteriorated, and they performed on stage together for the last time in Plymouth in May 1954. "Stan & Ollie, at its heart, is a love story between old friends, who just happen to be two of the most iconic comedic characters in Hollywood’s history," says director Jon S Baird, who wrote and directed Filth. The world premiere of Stan & Ollie will close the BFI London Film Festival on 21 October, and it's set for nationwide release on 11 January 2019.
  9. Red Deer man says he also bought a latte containing cleaning solution, and he's not the only one After an Alberta woman bought a latte only to discover it contained cleaning fluid, McDonald's Canada acknowledged the company has had 'other isolated incidents' of the same nature. A pregnant Alberta woman isn't the only customer who has sipped a McDonald's coffee to find it was actually cleaning fluid, CBC News has learned. A man says the same thing happened to him in Red Deer, Alta. — and it seems there are other cases. When CBC News inquired, McDonald's Canada acknowledged the company has had "other isolated incidents" of the same nature. Earlier this week, Sarah Douglas picked up a latte at a McDonald's in Lethbridge and took a sip — only to spit it out when she tasted a mouthful of strong chemicals. Sarah Douglas, who is 32 weeks pregnant with her third child, said she was served cleaning fluid in the latte she had ordered from a McDonald's on University Drive W. in Lethbridge. She raced back to the restaurant, where she learned that the chemicals in her coffee was cleanser from two cleaning lines that were still hooked up to the latte machine. According to an employee, the same thing had happened just a few weeks earlier. After hearing Douglas's story, Corey Irwin from Red Deer told CBC News the same thing happened to him late last year. He said he bought a latte from a McDonald's on 22nd Street in Red Deer on Dec. 19, 2017. He took his first sip while driving to work and immediately spit it out. Rather than the expected milky coffee, he got a mouthful of cleanser. "I took a sip of it and realized right away that it wasn't coffee, that there was a chemical," Irwin said. "Sort of caustic because I could feel my tongue going a bit numb." He took a picture of the light-brown liquid, saved what was left of the drink and went back to the location after work. Changes 'from higher above' needed, customer says When Irwin complained about his experience, he was told the problem would be fixed, so he was shocked to hear Douglas's story this week. "It's disappointing. Obviously, they have to have changes come up from higher above," Irwin said. "Maybe the particular location where I went might've got their act together, but I mean, McDonald's worldwide might have to take some steps to ensure other people don't get hurt." Corey Irwin took this photo of the latte he ordered in December 2017 at a McDonald's in Red Deer, Alta. He said the manager offered him a gift card, a voucher to clean the liquid spilled in the car, an apology, and the assurance that "it wouldn't happen again." He said staff told him his cup had been filled by cleanser left soaking in the McCafe machine. McDonald's aware of 'other isolated incidents' The owner of the franchise on 22nd Street in Red Deer did not respond to an interview request. McDonald's Canada did not confirm this specific incident but did acknowledge it's aware of similar incidents. "The health and safety of every guest is McDonald's and our franchisees' absolute priority. We are aware that there are other isolated incidents of this nature. Even one incident is too many," McDonald's Canada spokesperson Laura Munzar said in an emailed statement. "While the specialty coffee machines and usage procedures are of the highest industry standards, we are immediately re-enforcing proper cleaning procedures with all McDonald's restaurants." Cleanser label warns that skin contact dangerous In Douglas's case, the Lethbridge franchise owner said the milk supply was left connected to the cleaning solution when the drink was being made. He said the machine is cleaned each morning. The restaurant workers showed her the chemical composition of the cleaning agent she sipped — citric acid, phosphoric acid, methyl-trimethyl-3, and 2-butoxyethanol. The label warns: "Causes serious eye irritation. May cause an allergic skin reaction. Keep out of reach of children. Wear protective gloves/eye protection." It goes on to caution that if the chemical makes contact with eyes or skin, it needs to be rinsed for some minutes with plenty of water. When Douglas spoke to poison control authorities, they told her the cleanser was an acid-based solution. She said she seems to have got off lucky because she never actually swallowed the liquid and doesn't seem to have any lingering effects. "My goal [in going public] is to raise awareness and that is it," Douglas told the Calgary Eyeopener. "I want to look out for the children that are going through McDonald's. Heaven forbid anything was to happen to them." Irwin now avoids ordering lattes early Irwin echoed Douglas in his concern, saying that although he wasn't injured, he wants to make sure the problem is indeed fixed. "I knew I wasn't really in any danger because I didn't swallow enough," Irwin said. "But I mean, I could only imagine that if the concentration was higher, it could have been burning my throat, maybe I would've got in a car accident or something, like it could have been pretty bad." He also said staff had told him on other occasions that he shouldn't order McCafe drinks as the machine was still flushing out the cleaner. Since this experience, Irwin has stopped ordering drinks from McDonald's early in the morning to avoid cleaning time. He said he now smells his coffee first to check it's what he ordered. Food inspector to investigate Alberta Health Services, which oversees food safety in fast food businesses, said it will investigate the restaurant in Red Deer and ensure proper procedures are in place. A spokesperson for the regulator said the location had no issues with the McCafe machine when inspected twice in the past eight months. AHS also investigated the report in Lethbridge, and said the restaurant operator implemented a new system to safeguard against such mistakes. According to its website, McDonald's has a policy for staff to take apart its McCafe machines each day for a full cleaning, normally in the middle of the night or during a low-volume time.
  10. Exclusive: Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy File photo of Russian police officer patrolling a street in front of the US embassy in Moscow. US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart of the American embassy in Moscow for more than a decade, the Guardian has learned. The Russian national had been hired by the US Secret Service and is understood to have had access to the agency’s intranet and email systems, which gave her a potential window into highly confidential material including the schedules of the president and vice-president. The woman had been working for the Secret Service for years before she came under suspicion in 2016 during a routine security sweep conducted by two investigators from the US Department of State’s Regional Security Office (RSO). They established she was having regular and unauthorised meetings with members of the FSB, Russia’s principal security agency. The Guardian has been told the RSO sounded the alarm in January 2017, but the Secret Service did not launch a full-scale inquiry of its own. Instead it decided to let her go quietly months later, possibly to contain any potential embarrassment. An intelligence source told the Guardian the woman was dismissed last summer after the state department revoked her security clearance. The dismissal came shortly before a round of expulsions of US personnel demanded by the Kremlin after Washington imposed more sanctions on the country. The order to remove more than 750 US personnel from its 1,200-strong diplomatic mission is understood to have provided cover for her removal. “The Secret Service is trying to hide the breach by firing [her],” the source said. “The damage was already done but the senior management of the Secret Service did not conduct any internal investigation to assess the damage and to see if [she] recruited any other employees to provide her with more information. “Only an intense investigation by an outside source can determine the damage she has done.” Asked detailed questions about the investigation into the woman, and her dismissal, the Secret Service attempted to downplay the significance of her role. But it did not deny that she had been identified as a potential mole. In a statement, it said: “The US Secret Service recognizes that all Foreign Service Nationals (FSN) who provide services in furtherance of our mission, administrative or otherwise, can be subjected to foreign intelligence influence. “This is of particular emphasis in Russia. As such, all foreign service nationals are managed accordingly to ensure that Secret Service and United States government interests are protected at all times. As a result, the duties are limited to translation, interpretation, cultural guidance, liaison and administrative support. “It was specifically the duties of the FSN position in Moscow to assist our attaches and agency by engaging the Russian government, including the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Ministry of the Interior (MVD), and the Russian Federal Protective Service (FSO) in furtherance of Secret Service interests.” It said: “At no time, in any US Secret Service office, have FSNs been provided or placed in a position to obtain national security information.” The state department said it would not comment “on allegations related to intelligence or personnel matters, and we have no information for you on this alleged incident.” But it said it was aware “that US government employees, by virtue of their employment with the US government, may be targeted by foreign intelligence services … when we identify an employee in violation of security directives, we take appropriate action at the appropriate time.” The Secret Service is a US federal law enforcement agency that sits within the Department of Homeland Security and has more than 150 offices worldwide. Its mission, it says, is the “protection of the nation’s leaders and the financial and critical infrastructure of the United States”. A Secret Service agent stands guard as a helicopter carrying Barack Obama prepares to land in New York in 2015. The discovery of a suspected FSB mole on its staff within the US embassy in Moscow would be hugely damaging to its reputation and could have severe consequences for the safety of other Secret Service staff and those it is mandated to protect. The Guardian has been told the name of the suspected spy and her job title within the agency. She did not respond to numerous email requests to discuss her role at the embassy or the allegations made against her. It is understood she came under suspicion two years ago during a routine review of Secret Service personnel in the so-called Paris district of the agency, which includes Moscow, London and Frankfurt. The RSO reviews take place every five years. With a role that gave her an insight into ongoing Secret Service investigations, the woman had access to the Secret Service intranet, its internal email and its counterfeit-money tracking system. A source claimed “her frequent contacts with the FSB gave her away ... numerous unsanctioned meetings and communications”. The Guardian has been told the state department’s resident agents in charge alerted the Secret Service in January 2017 and at least nine high-ranking Secret Service officials became aware of the findings. At the time, separate CIA and FBI inquires were also under way, but it appears the Secret Service was expected to take the lead. It failed to do so, according to a source. “She had access to the most damaging database, which is the US Secret Service official mail system,” the source said. “Part of her access was schedules of the president – current and past, vice-president and their spouses, including Hillary Clinton.” She had plenty of time to gather intelligence without supervision, the source said. “Several employees interacted with her on a personal level by emailing her personally on a non-work account. This isn’t allowed.” The Department of Homeland Security was apparently notified about the case but it is unclear how much detail was passed on to officials outside the agency. It is also unclear why the woman, a Russian national, was hired by the Secret Service in the first place or what kind of vetting took place. The Guardian has been told that the potential breach was not reported to any of the congressional intelligence or oversight committees. A source said: “A government committee needs to investigate the Secret Service for hiding this breach.” Another option would be to include it in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into suspected Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election. “The US Congress is focusing on Russian hackers when it is possible that all of the information they needed to get into the system came from the internal breach in the Secret Service,” the source said. “Her activities of stealing and sharing information could shed more light on how the Russians were able to hack the 2016 presidential election office of the DNC [Democratic National Committee].” They added: “I think that the special counsel would be the perfect outside entity to investigate the level of damage that [she] caused. They have access to all types of counterintelligence information and they wouldn’t lie ... to avoid reporting this serious operational and security breach.”
  11. 'I opened up the lid of the coffee and out pours this pungent smell of chemical,' Sarah Douglas said A pregnant woman was served a cleaning agent in a cup rather than the latte she ordered from a McDonald's in southern Alberta. Sarah Douglas was taking her son to a baseball tournament on Sunday morning when she went through a drive-thru at the McDonald's restaurant on University Drive W. in Lethbridge and ordered a latte. As she drove onto Highway 3, she took a sip. "I immediately had to put my hazard lights on and pull over and spit it out and rinse my mouth out with ... water," said Douglas, who is more than seven months pregnant with her third child. "I opened up the lid of the coffee and out pours this pungent smell of chemical. It wasn't a latte at all." She said the liquid was a watery-brownish colour. Cleaning lines still hooked up to coffee machine She immediately drove back to the McDonald's and asked to speak to a supervisor. "I showed him the coffee and he had asked if I wanted a new one, and I said, 'Absolutely not, this is unacceptable.' I said I need to speak to someone higher up and he said he was the only supervisor on at the time, and he gave me his manager's phone number." Dan Brown, who owns this McDonald's franchise on University Drive W. in Lethbridge, says the restaurant has apologized to Sarah Douglas. She said one of the workers told her two cleaning lines were still hooked up to the latte machine, even when she brought back her coffee. "The supervisor went and got the bottle that was hooked up to it and brought it over to the counter, and I took a picture of it, so I knew what I was working with — what I had consumed so I could talk to 811 and poison control," Douglas said. A call to poison control Douglas contacted Alberta Health Services' Health Link at 811 and was transferred to poison control, who told her it was an acid-based solution. She said she seems to have got off lucky because she never actually swallowed the liquid, although she did go to see her family doctor about it, and didn't seem to have any lingering effects. Douglas also shared documents provided to her by Alison Mackisey, Lethbridge and area brand manager for McDonald's, that showed the chemical composition of the cleaning agent she ingested — citric acid, phosphoric acid, methyl-trimethyl-3, and 2-butoxyethanol. Douglas said she took a photo of the label on the cleaning solution so she would know what to tell poison control when she called them. 'Causes serious eye irritation. May cause an allergic skin reaction. Keep out of reach of children. Wear protective gloves/eye protection,' the label warns. "Causes serious eye irritation. May cause an allergic skin reaction. Keep out of reach of children. Wear protective gloves/eye protection," the label of the cleaning fluid warns. It goes on to caution that if the chemical makes contact with eyes or skin, it needs to be rinsed for some minutes with plenty of water. Alberta Health Services issued a statement confirming that AHS Environmental Public Health was investigating a complaint about an incident that took place on Sunday at a west Lethbridge restaurant. McDonald's says it's taken 'immediate action' Dan Brown, who owns the McDonald's franchise, later issued a statement saying his team had been in close contact with Douglas and had apologized to her. "McDonald's is renowned for its food safety protocols and I am sorry that this happened in my restaurant here in Lethbridge," he wrote. "What happened is that the machine was being cleaned as it is every morning. Unfortunately, the milk supply line was connected to the cleaning solution while this guest's drink was made." He said a health inspector had visited the restaurant and was not investigating further. "We have taken immediate action to review the proper cleaning procedures with the team and have put additional signage up as an added reminder." Douglas worried that kids might drink same chemicals Douglas confirmed that the franchise owner had contacted her Tuesday to apologize. However, she said she wanted to share her story to ensure that no one else had to go through the same experience. She said she was worried that if cleaning solutions such as the one used in the coffee maker were also used for juice, soft-serve or pop machines, a child could ingest the chemicals, with more serious consequences. "As a mother, I want to make sure I have voice and that I'm being heard in terms of the safety of consumers." Prior to the incident, she has never had an issue with the restaurant. She said she hoped her experience could be used as a learning tool to bring awareness to the chain about enforcing proper procedures or perhaps improving employee training. Sarah Douglas, who is 32 weeks pregnant with her third child, said she was served cleaning fluid in the latte she had ordered from a McDonald's in Lethbridge, Alta.
  12. Scientists in Melbourne say they have discovered a new type of anti-cancer drug without the usual side effects of conventional cancer treatments. Research so far has shown progress in delaying cancer relapse as well as treating some types of cancers. The research, published in the journal Nature, shows the new class of anti-cancer drugs, in effect, put cancer cells permanently to sleep. The process of stopping the growth of tumours occurs without damaging any cell's DNA, which occurs in conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The development of the drugs has been a joint effort between the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Cancer Therapeutics CRC, The University of Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the CSIRO. One of the research leaders, Associate Professor Tim Thomas, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, said it's an exciting development. "So what I think the future of cancer therapy will be is to have directed and targeted treatments which will work on specific patient groups. What we hope we have developed here is a new type of approach to cancer therapy which is stopping cancer cells from growing but leaving the normal cells relatively unaffected and that's by harnessing the body's normal defences against unrestricted growth." Professor Thomas said the development of the drug is at a pre-clinical stage. The research shows that by targeting certain proteins known to play a major role in the development of cancer, doctors can essentially stop the disease. Associate Professor Tim Thomas, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. These proteins are known as KAT6A and KAT6B and they are proteins that affect certain genes most commonly found in cancers. Jonathan Baell, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science has also been involved in the research. "The disease-causing protein that has been targeted has really not been able to be targeted before with a small-molecule potential drug. And in fact for many years people were increasingly thinking this sort of disease protein in certain cancers maybe could not be targeted and we had to look for other things to modify their activity. "But we have really proven we have been able to develop a small molecule that inhibits these proteins. So for the first time, we have shown that you can develop a potential drug for this sort of enzyme." Dr Ken Dutton-Regester is a Research Officer at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research While he is not involved in this current discovery, he has looked at conventional and experimental cancer treatments. He said the emergence of a wide variety of drugs - including this latest discovery which falls into the emerging field of epigenetic treatments - is having a positive impact on improving survival rates for late stages of the disease. "The way that these epigenetic drugs work particularly this drug, is that it freezes the cell but does not kill it off. If you are at a late stage disease and have lots of tumours in your body we obviously want to get rid of that first before trying to get rid of that first before trying to stop the cells from growing. "This drug could be really useful after using initial therapy that gets rid of the original tumour mass and we would use that new type of epigenetic drug to prevent any tumours from growing back, which is a really useful idea and concept." Professor Baell said while it's early days, clinical trials might not be far away. "At the moment we are just looking at what's called pharmaco-kinetics, and formulation approaches, to modify and improve the exposure of our compound ultimately in patients. "If we show that works over the next year, then as long as it passes the required safety barriers that new drugs need to overcome, you could not rule out that clinical trials could be a matter of a few years away."
  13. Report by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found the net worth of the richest was 4,448 times the average Canadian in 2016 The report found that Canada’s most affluent families are worth $3bn on average, and inheritance featured prominently in their wealth. Canada’s richest 87 families have roughly the same amount of wealth as that held by 12 million of their compatriots, or about a third of the country’s population, according to a new report. The report, published on Tuesday by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, found that in 2016 the net worth of the richest was 4,448 times that of the average Canadian. The collective net worth of the country’s richest families is just shy of what is owned by everyone in the east coast provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, the report found. “Canada’s dynastic families have got it all – more wealth, more inheritance, and are as lightly taxed as they were the last time we looked in 2014,” the author of the report, economist David Macdonald, said in a statement. Based on wealth rankings compiled by Canadian Business magazine and data from Statistics Canada, the report found that Canada’s most affluent families are worth $3bn on average, while the median net worth in Canada sits at just over $295,000. Inheritance figured prominently in their wealth. In 1999, 46 of the 87 families were nouveau riche, a number that had dropped to 39 by 2016, suggesting that a slim majority of those on the list today were born into wealth. Nine of the 20 wealthiest families also included a top-paid CEO among their ranks. “In other words, not only do these families control vast wealth, but their members are disproportionately likely to be among the highest-paid people in Canada,” said Macdonald. According to his calculations, the gap between the net worth of these families and everyone else in the country is growing. Between 2012 and 2016, the average net worth of the wealthiest rose by 37%, while the median net worth of Canadians grew by 15%. The report argues that country’s acute – and growing – wealth inequality is being exacerbated by the country’s tax system. “Canada is the only country in the G7 without an inheritance, estate or gift tax on tremendous family wealth,” said Macdonald, citing countries such as the UK, United States and Japan, where inheritances can be taxed at rates of 40% or more. What’s more, income from capital gains and dividends is taxed at lower rates than income from wages in Canada, a loophole that often benefits the country’s wealthiest, according to research done previously by Macdonald. The report also argued that unlike all other G7 countries, Canada also tolerates what was described as “aggressive” accounting – the use of private corporations and tax havens. “You’d expect Canada’s tax regime would try to counteract this concentration of wealth at the very top, where it’s needed the least, but in fact, federal policies encourage it,” said Macdonald. Along with outlining the issue, Macdonald suggested possible reforms, such as a 45% estate tax on estates valued at more than C$5 million. Such a tax would bring Canada in line with the rest of the G7, he noted, as well as add $2bn to federal coffers to fund public programs that help chip away at inequality, such as education and childcare.
  14. Three Ukrainians have been arrested on criminal hacking charges including stealing payment card numbers, in attacks on more than 100 U.S. companies that cost businesses tens of millions of dollars, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017 U.S. prosecutors alleged that the three Ukrainians, who were arrested in Europe between January and June, are members of FIN7, a notorious cybercrime gang. Victims include the Chipotle Mexican Grill, Emerald Queen Hotel and Casino in Washington state, Jason’s Deli, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Sonic Drive-in and Taco John’s, according to the Justice Department. The Emerald Queen stopped the attack and no customer data was stolen, prosecutors said in a press release. FIN7 has previously been linked to breaches of Trump Hotels, Whole Foods, Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, according to cyber security firm Trend Micro. One of the three defendants, Fedir Hladyr, 33, has been transferred to Seattle from Dresden, Germany, where he was arrested. Authorities said they are seeking the extradition of the other two: Dmytro Fedorov, 44, and Andrii Kolpakov, 30. Hladyr has pleaded not guilty and denies wrongdoing, according to his attorney, Arkady Bukh. “There is no clear decision at this time whether (we) will go to trial or will consider a plea,” Bukh said via email. Reuters could not reach lawyers for the other two. The three stole and sold payment card numbers and other data belonging to U.S. citizens and businesses, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said in a statement. FIN7 sent “phishing” emails to companies, sometimes following up with phone calls urging employees to open tainted attachments, the indictments said. Ukrainian officials could not be reached for comment. FIN7, also widely known as Carbanak, employs dozens of individuals who handle highly specialized tasks such as breaking into networks, stealing payment card numbers and selling stolen data on underground criminal forums, said Adrian Nish, head of threat intelligence with BAE Systems. The defendants used a front company named “Combi Security” that claims to have offices in Moscow, Haifa and Odessa, to launch some intrusions, according to court documents. Combi Security’s website describes it as an expert “in the field of comprehensive protection of large information systems from modern cyber threats.” Cybersecurity firm FireEye said it found job advertisements for Combi Security posted to several different Russian, Ukrainian and Uzbek job recruitment websites. FIN7 stole more than 15 million customer card records from U.S. businesses and also targeted companies in Australia, France and the United Kingdom, according to U.S. prosecutors.
  15. "If Google goes through with this, effectively normalizing and Americanizing authoritarian censorship, this will be the Waterloo in the global battle for a free internet as a norm." "This has very serious implications not just for China, but for all of us, for freedom of information and internet freedom," said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based researcher with Amnesty International. In a move human rights groups are warning could have grave implications for internet freedom across the globe, Google is reportedly preparing to launch a "censored version" of its search engine in China that will automatically blacklist terms and websites related to peaceful dissent, free expression, and democracy. According to The Intercept's Ryan Gallagher, who first reported on the tech giant's plans on Wednesday, "The project—code-named Dragonfly—has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese government official." Citing anonymous sources familiar with the plan—including a Google whistleblower who has "moral and ethical concerns" about his company's role in censorship—as well as confidential company documents, Gallagher reported that "programmers and engineers at Google have created a custom Android app" which "has already been demonstrated to the Chinese government; the finalized version could be launched in the next six to nine months, pending approval from Chinese officials." "Don't Be Evil, unless it's worth untold new riches," wrote Mother Jones national affairs editor Mark Follman in response to Gallagher's reporting, referencing Google's longstanding unofficial motto. Speaking out due to fear that "what is done in China will become a template for many other nations," a Google whistleblower told The Intercept, "I'm against large companies and governments collaborating in the oppression of their people, and feel like transparency around what's being done is in the public interest." Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based researcher with Amnesty International, told The Intercept that Google's apparent decision to go along with the Chinese government's repressive demands in pursuit of profit is "a big disaster for the information age." "This has very serious implications not just for China, but for all of us, for freedom of information and internet freedom," Poon said. "It will set a terrible precedent for many other companies who are still trying to do business in China while maintaining the principles of not succumbing to China’s censorship. The biggest search engine in the world obeying the censorship in China is a victory for the Chinese government—it sends a signal that nobody will bother to challenge the censorship any more." Google's search engine hasn't operated in China since 2010, when the tech behemoth decided to withdraw from the country due to the very censorship concerns the company now appears to be sweeping aside at Beijing's behest. "Google's search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country's so-called Great Firewall. The app Google is building for China will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, restricting access to content that Xi Jinping's Communist Party regime deems unfavorable," Gallagher notes. "Documents seen by The Intercept, marked 'Google confidential,' say that Google's Chinese search app will automatically identify and filter websites blocked by the Great Firewall." While it is unclear how many sites will be filtered out by Google's censored search engine, Wikipedia and the BBC were specifically mentioned in company documents as websites that would be blacklisted.
  16. Nice, I loved Ozark, can't wait for the new season
  17. Trump calls on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry. "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president tweets. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!" The president's attacks on the special counsel have escalated in recent weeks. Trump's attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime." President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry. "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president wrote in a post on Twitter. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!" Trump's tweet came before the trial of ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort entered its second day in federal court in Virginia. Manafort is being tried by Mueller's team. The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement to NBC News Wednesday afternoon that the president "was expressing his opinion" and that "no Presidential order was issued or will be." "The president is not obstructing, he is fighting back," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said during a briefing with reporters later in the day. Later Wednesday, ABC News, citing sources said that Trump's tweetstorm was sparked by the president learning within the past day or so that Mueller's office wants to question him about obstruction of justice. ABC said Mueller "will limit the scope of questioning and would like to ask questions both orally and written for the President to respond to." Sessions, who endorsed Trump's presidential bid during the 2016 campaign, recused himself from the Russia investigation last March, before Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate both foreign interference in the presidential election, and possible collusion with Russians with the Trump campaign. The investigation is being overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has defended Mueller against critics in Congress. Trump has attacked Sessions several times for his recusal. In June, the president wrote in a post on Twitter that Mueller was continuing to investigate "all because Jeff Sessions didn't tell me he was going to recuse himself." "I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion," Trump tweeted. The White House did not respond to a request to elaborate on the president's remarks. The office of the special counsel and the Department of Justice declined to comment. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the president's tweet "just another attempt to make the American people look at his latest shiny object." In a post on Twitter Wednesday, Schumer quoted the president's tweet and wrote: "The Mueller-Rosenstein investigation is making progress at record speed: 35 indictments, 5 guilty pleas & Trump's campaign chairman on trial." California congressman Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called the president's tweet "an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight." AshLee Strong, spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., told NBC News that Ryan "has said many times the investigation should continue to its conclusion." His position has not changed, she said. The special counsel is investigating the president's tweets criticizing Sessions as part of a wider inquiry into whether the president has obstructed justice, The New York Times reported last month. Trump and his legal team have escalated their attacks on the special counsel in recent weeks. Giuliani made headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime." The president doubled down on his attorney's comments, tweeting on Tuesday that "Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!" It's true that "collusion" is not a word that appears in any criminal statute that Mueller is examining. Mueller, however, has pursued charges involving conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
  18. I've been using CCleaner since about 2012, this is disappointing news to say the least. The free version was sufficient for my needs but now it looks like I'll have to find something else. Can anyone recommend an alternative disk cleanup utility that doesn't insist on running constantly in the background? EDIT: After doing some digging, it looks like BleachBit is a good open-source alternative. Here's the wikipedia page for anybody that's interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit
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