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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Update Chrome Now As Hackers Attack 2 Major Vulnerabilities In Google Browser

Google Chrome is under attack, the tech giant warns, as it patches 11 security issues in its … [+] browser. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Google has revealed that two weaknesses in Chrome are under active attack, as users have been urged to update their browser to avoid becoming a victim. They were reported to Google via an anonymous party and were given a severity rating of “high.” Little more information was… Source link

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Russian software giant Yandex repels largest DDoS attack in history

Russian software giant Yandex confirmed at the end of last week that it succeeded in repelling a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took place last month and at the beginning of this month, claiming that it was the biggest attack of its kind in history. One of the products marketed by the company is a service for protection against such attacks.  According to an official statement by the company, the attack – in which the malicious actors tried to flood the computer system… Source link

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