Things got wildly out of hand at a Georgia basketball game. (Screen grab via NoPauseTv/Twitter) Many adults joke that their greatest fear is being attacked by a group of teenagers. For one Georgia basketball referee, this nightmare recently became a reality. After the final whistle sounded last Sunday at an unsanctioned basketball tournament held at the Stronghold Christian Church in Lithonia, Georgia, a group of players physically attacked one of the referees. The referee subsequently… Source link
Read More »Short-seller Spruce Point Capital rips Stryker in new attack, says stock could crash up to 70%
Activist short-seller Spruce Point Capital Management is taking aim at medical device company Stryker (SYK). Spruce Point unveiled its latest attack on Wednesday, saying Stryker has overpaid for recent acquisitions, has used questionable accounting practices and has executive compensation that isn’t aligned with shareholder interests. The activist has called on Harvard Business School dean and Stryker audit committee member Srikant Datar to evaluate its findings with “independent forensic… Source link
Read More »Chael Sonnen said he doesn’t remember alleged Vegas attack
Former UFC fighter and ESPN analyst Chael Sonnen told police that he doesn’t remember the incident in a Las Vegas hotel last year that , . , including one felony battery by strangulation, last week after he allegedly punched or kicked five different men in Las Vegas on Dec. 18. Sonnen told police that both he and his wife had taken Ambien and “did not have memory of anything,” . He also apparently asked police if everyone was OK multiple times. His wife, Brittany, told police she was… Source link
Read More »Why GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen is using his billions to attack Bed Bath & Beyond
Beyond disappointing. That’s the overarching theme behind a scathing new note from GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen to the board of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY). The Chewy billionaire turned wanna-be-savior of once proud retail organizations has disclosed a 9.8% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond. Cohen says Bed Bath & Beyond’s execution under CEO Mark Tritton has bordered on terrible, compensation is not realistic and the business should be split up (Buy Buy Baby business sold off) and then sold in entirety… Source link
Read More »Russia attack on Ukraine may nudge Fed to less aggressive move next month
Russia’s attack on Ukraine is fueling geopolitical risk that may push the Federal Reserve away from a more aggressive interest rate increase in March. Fed officials, who are still eager to begin the process of paring back pandemic-era easy money policies, say they are monitoring any spillover effects of the conflict onto U.S. economic activity. “These create a lot of uncertainty and uncertainty, as we know, is a demand shock,” San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly told reporters on Feb…. Source link
Read More »A Russian attack on Ukraine ‘would be horrific’
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday that if Russia decides to attack Ukraine, “it would be horrific,” and that such a move would result in “a significant amount of casualties,” particularly in Ukraine’s dense, urban areas. Milley offered this grim assessment during a Friday press conference at the Pentagon, where he addressed the latest developments in the mounting crisis alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. While both men insisted that… Source link
Read More »January 6 committee subpoenas Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit in probe of Capitol attack
Volkan Furuncu | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol riot has subpoenaed social media giants Twitter, Reddit and the parent companies of Facebook and Google, the panel’s chairman said Thursday. The bipartisan committee had asked for a trove of records last summer from those and other social companies, but said it received “inadequate responses” from some of the largest platforms. The committee again demanded that Google parent company… Source link
Read More »Trump previews the Republicans’ attack on Biden in 2022
Is President Biden a socialist? Do socialists control him? Republicans will try to convince voters the answer to both questions is yes, according to Biden’s political archenemy. In a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, former President Donald Trump hinted at the script Republicans will use against Biden and his fellow Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. When voters elected Biden president last year, it “was not a mandate to change the norms of our society,” Trump said. “This was not… Source link
Read More »Google Confirms 12th Zero-Day Attack
Google Chrome is under attack again, as the tech giant issues another significant release in … [+] September to prevent hackers exploiting the flaws more widely. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Google has updated Chrome to deal with fresh attacks on its browser, with three vulnerabilities patched, the tech giant wrote in a blog on Thursday. Two of the weaknesses were known to have been abused by hackers “in the… Source link
Read More »Russian Internet Giant Yandex Wards off the Largest Botnet DDoS Attack in History
The Russian internet giant Yandex experienced an extreme Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for several days, in August and September. The attack recorded at about 22 million requests per second (RPS) is believed to be the largest DDoS attack in the history of the internet, according to the Russian publication Vedomosti. Cyber security company Cloudflare confirmed the attack adding that the worst volumetric DDoS attack it ever recorded was 17.2… Source link
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