Hurricane Ian’s path continues toward the Carolina coast on September 30, 2022. NOAA After pummeling the southeast coast of Florida at a maximum of 150 mph sustained winds, Hurricane Ian is working its way up the Atlantic and showing signs of a resurgence. The record-setting storm is set to reach South Carolina by this afternoon….
Monthly Archives: September 2022
HSBC Asset Management, the investment arm of Britain’s HSBC Group, has led a seed round of $4 million in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup Bizbaz, the two said Friday. Founded in June 2019, Bizbaz offers its proprietary customer intelligence and risk management solutions to banks, insurance companies and fintech startups. The startup has…
A wave of Amazon-merchant aggregator startups, floating close to $15 billion in funding, have rushed in, rolled up, and rushed out of the e-commerce market in the last several years. Now, a new tide, and new take on the model, appears to be rising. Today, a Berlin startup called Everstores — which seeks out, buys and…
Microsoft has confirmed two unpatched Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited by cybercriminals in real-world attacks. Vietnamese cybersecurity company GTSC, which first discovered the flaws part of its response to a customer’s cybersecurity incident, in August 2022, said the two zero-days have been used in attacks on their customers’ environments dating back to early-August…
Full spoilers for The Rings of Power episode 6 follow. You’ve been warned. The Rings of Power has officially arrived. Sure, the high fantasy Prime Video show actually launched on September 2, but it’s needed a hugely significant episode to truly announce itself on the prestige TV stage. Episode 6 is the epic and explosive…
Fiona Hill,arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on November 21, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The West is already fighting World War 3 with Russia, Fiona Hill told The New Yorker. “We’ve been in this for a long time, and we’ve failed to recognize it,” the former White…
The eBay executives viewed David and Ina Steiner’s newsletter as critical of the company. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Two former eBay executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for the harassment of a couple. The couple published a newsletter that was seen as critical of the company. The two men and their co-conspirators sent deliveries to…
An aerial view of Australia’s Casey station in Antarctica on January 17, 2008. Angela Wylie/The AGE/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images Women working in Australian Antarctic research stations are plagued by sexual harassment, a report found. The report describes unwanted advances, homophobia, prominently displayed pornography, and period shaming. US stations are also rife…
Michael Burry. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Michael Burry fears the market turmoil could herald a worst disaster than the financial crisis. He cited soaring interest rates, volatile currencies, and reactionary central banks as concerns. The “Big Short” investor diagnosed a historic asset bubble last year, and predicted a massive crash. Michael Burry, one of the few…
Akio Toyoda spoke to reporters on Thursday. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / Contributor/ Getty Toyota’s president said he celebrated when the automaker topped the US sales list in 2021. “I actually did a little happy dance in my office,” Akio Toyoda told dealers, per Reuters. Supply shortages are starting to bite, however, as Toyota cut October’s global…