Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Pool/Getty Images Shinzo Abe, who was Japan’s PM until 2020, was shot while giving a speech in western Japan on Friday. Abe sustained a gunshot wound to his neck and has bleeding in his chest, per local outlets. A 41-year-old man was arrested at the scene in connection with…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while he was giving a speech on Friday. Images and videos uploaded to Twitter show chaos on the scene after he collapsed. Abe appeared to be showing no vital signs after the attack, Kyodo News reported,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an ominous warning this week that Russia has not “started anything in earnest” when it came to the invasion of Ukraine. Alexei Nikolsky/Reuters Vladimir Putin warned this week that Russia was just getting started in its war with Ukraine. Putin said Russia had not “started anything in earnest” with regard…
Windows 11 Insiders will now be able to link a VPN IP address with their Android apps, thanks to a new update to Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA). The upgrade will allow WSA Windows 11 users to run Android apps either natively or via X86 emulation, depending on your machine’s performance. However, if you’re thinking…
A few days after Google patched a high-severity bug that was being exploited in the wild, Microsoft has done the same for Edge. Tracked as CVE-2022-2294, the flaw is present in the Chromium browser engine, which means both Chrome and Edge are affected. Other than revealing the zero-day is being exploited in the wild, Google…
It’s been a good year for Hyundai and its Ioniq 5 EV. Having been the subject of rave reviews and thousands of orders in recent months, the brand’s flagship electric car has now earned itself a higher safety rating than BMW’s flashy i4 sedan. The US-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has awarded the…
Hotel chain Marriott has suffered yet another data breach, with unknown threat actors managing to steal 20GB worth of data from its servers. As reported by Engadget, the attackers targeted the company’s employees with social engineering techniques, and one of them fell for it. The group managed to access the company’s endpoints for less than…
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been awarded Ukraine’s peace prize for their efforts in helping keep the nation’s digital infrastructure online during the Russian invasion. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, said in a tweet that “Microsoft stands for truth and for peace” and that it stand on the…
New data collected by TechRadar Pro shows that few businesses are convinced of the long-term viability of full-time remote working. A survey of 3,000 IT professionals and other workers, conducted in partnership with Perimeter 81, revealed that the majority of companies (59%) have allowed fewer than half of the workforce to shift to a remote…
Despite the sorry state of economies the world over, a surprising number of online shoppers are ready to take part in this year’s Amazon Prime Day sales – but only a fraction plan to spend big. According to a recent survey conducted by consumer research firm Numerator, 57% of those aware of Amazon Prime Day…