Monthly Archives: September 2022

Former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton says Rudy Giuliani ‘really wanted to be the police commissioner’ during New York City mayoralty: book

Then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, right, speaks during a news conference alongside then-Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at New York City Hall on February 22, 1995. AP Photo/Ed Bailey Bratton said ex-NYC mayor Giuliani “really wanted to be the police commissioner,” per a new book. The writer Andrew Kirtzman chronicled the former prosecutor’s mayoralty in…

Elon Musk’s vacation buddy, famed Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, has reportedly tried to arrange a potential settlement ahead of the Tesla CEO’s Twitter trial

Ari Emanuel and Elon Musk Amy Sussman and Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Ari Emanuel has recently pushed for a settlement between Elon Musk and Twitter, Bloomberg reported. It’s unclear whether either side is open to settling the case before it goes to trial in October. Spokespeople for Twitter and Musk did not respond to…

The EU will try a ‘price corridor’ to rein in surging energy costs after talks to cap gas prices ended without an agreement

Flags of European Union member countries. Shutterstock.com The EU will try to implement a “price corridor” as talks of a price cap on natural gas ended without an agreement. Just 15 of 27 nations approved the price cap, but the bloc needs unanimous approval to pass the measure. Opponents say that the price cap could…

Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying

Enlarge (credit: Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images) For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine. And for almost as long, security researchers have warned about the potential dark side of that technology: theoretical “hyperjacking” and “Blue Pill”…

Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that

Enlarge / Deepfake Bruce Willis as he appeared in a 2021 commercial for Russian mobile company MegaFon. (credit: MegaFon) Bruce Willis has sold the “digital twin” rights to his likeness for commercial video production use, according to a report by The Telegraph. This move allows the Hollywood actor to digitally appear in future commercials and…