If John Oliver is doing a piece about something, you know there’s probably going to be something deeply wrong with it — and sure enough, in the last episode of Last Week Tonight, U.S. mental health care proves to be no exception. Oliver starts by laying out the scale of the problem, explaining that “about…
What do you need for a great gaming session? A PC or console, of course. That’s an absolute must. A monitor, a comfy chair, and — last but certainly not least — a gaming mouse. Not just any old mouse, but a good quality gaming mouse. Serious gamers know that a good gaming mouse is…
Secret Invasion will make Disney Plus history for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) when it launches in 2023. The limited series is the first Marvel TV show to be billed as a “crossover event” – a phrase that suggests Secret Invasion will be the first-ever MCU Disney Plus show that ties into Marvel’s upcoming movie…
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks just keep getting bigger, with Akamai claiming to have mitigated a 853.7 Gbps (gigabits per second) and 659.6 Mpps (million packets per second) attack against a company in Eastern Europe. The attack breaks the previous record (itself only established a mere month and a half ago), and although it’s…
A Qantas technical glitch led to flight delays across Australia on Sunday. Qantas Airways A technical glitch led to several Qantas flight delays across Australia and New Zealand on Sunday. Passengers said they were left on “packed planes” on airport runways. One passenger complained on Twitter that the delay was almost as long as the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with Anatoly Chubais in Moscow, Russia, in 2016. Alexei Druzhinin/AFP via Getty Images Anatoly Chubais resigned as a top Putin advisor and left Russia shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. On Sunday he was hospitalized in Europe after developing a rare neurological disorder, the NYT reported. Chubais suddenly lost feeling in…
Mortgage rates are lower this week compared to last Monday. Rates have been somewhat volatile in recent weeks due to the countervailing forces of inflation and recession fears. But even as rates trend down, they’re still significantly higher than they were at the start of 2022, which has created affordability problems for many buyers. “It’s…
Errol Musk, the father of tech billionaire Elon Musk. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP) (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images/Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Elon Musk’s father, Errol, said on an Australian radio show he wasn’t proud of his billionaire son. He said the family has done “a lot of things,” though he…
Welcome to the start of another month. Today, Insider has a gripping investigation into the psychological distress facing TikTok content moderators in Morocco. I’m your host, Jordan Parker Erb. Let’s get straight to it. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Insider’s app here. SOPA Images/Getty Images 1. TikTok’s Moroccan content moderators…
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at a GOP primary debate in the 2016 presidential election campaign in Detroit, Michigan. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump apologized to Ted Cruz in 2016 for deeply personal insults, a book says. Trump and Cruz fought an ill-tempered battle for the 2016 GOP nomination, which Trump won. Trump has rarely…