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• Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Men allegedly impersonated voices and images of executives to convince employees to send large payments Three foreign nationals were arrested and charged with using AI to allegedly impersonate corporate CEOs and attorneys to steal over $100m, according to an indictment that was newly unsealed by the US Department of Justice. According to a press release from the United States attorney’s office for the southern district of New York, three men – Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan, and Guy Sheetrit – were arrested for using AI to alter and impersonate the voices and images of executives and attorneys at various companies in order to convince employees to send over large payments. Soall and Hazan were arrested in Spain over the summer, while Sheetrit was arrested in the United Kingdom in September. The alleged fraud took place between 2024 and 2026. Continue reading...

• Protesters break into Microsoft data centre site in Amsterdam
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Protesters break into Microsoft data centre site in Amsterdam. Data centres face protests across Europe due to the massive amounts of computing power and water they use.

• Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boom Activists have stormed the site of a Microsoft datacentre being built in Amsterdam, as the backlash to the social and environmental harms of the AI boom spreads across Europe. Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group, clashed with police while breaking into a construction site at Westpoort, Amsterdam, where some members climbed a crane, lit flares and tied helium balloons to equipment. Continue reading...

• Further bomb threats disrupt at least another 18 flights across Europe
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Media organisations in Ireland and UK also affected as apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos continues A fresh wave of bomb threats disrupted air traffic across Europe on Friday but the affected aircraft landed safely and searches revealed no explosive devices. The latest alerts affected at least 18 flights to or from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the UK. Continue reading...

• Data center protesters break into Microsoft site in Amsterdam
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

  Protesters are demanding a pause in data center construction in Europe. Campaigners planning protests in 16 countries say the AI building boom threatens water supplies, power grids and climate goals.

• Bomb threats against European flights ‘likely a coordinated campaign of disruption’, Ireland says – as it happened
  Source: The Guardian - World

  This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here A Romanian airline Tarom flight from Prague to Bucharest is the latest believed to be affected by today’s bomb threats. The aircraft, operating flight number ROT226M, sent a squawk code of 7700 – general emergency – before landing safely in Bucharest. The threat was later confirmed to be unproven. Continue reading...

• New wave of bomb threats hit European airlines
  Source: BBC News - World

  No link has been established between the threats against the airlines and those against the media outlets.

• Kenyan doomsday sect leader jailed for 200 years for murder of 190 children
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Paul Mackenzie convicted over deaths of children and one adult after followers were ordered to starve themselves and their families The leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult disasters in recent history. The sentence, comprising 100 years for murder by starvation and 100 years by direct homicide, came two weeks after the court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa found the cult leader guilty of the crimes. Continue reading...

• Kenyan doomsday cult leader given life sentence for murdering 191 people
  Source: BBC News - World

  Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve their children to death in a forest so they could "meet Jesus".

• Bomb threats disrupt several flights across Europe
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English

  At least a dozen flights were either diverted or landed with a military escort after bomb or security threats. The first reported case involved a flight from Dublin to Rome landing outside Paris and more soon followed.

• EU urges action as Germany, Romania and UK report supermarket cyberattacks
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  EU says supermarket hacks in at least 11 countries are 'not isolated', but a Romanian official suspects no state actor.

• Seven flights across Europe targeted by suspected bomb threats
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• UN elects five judges to International Court of Justice amid record cases
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• Bomb threats disrupt flights across Europe, no explosive devices found
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• US Department of Justice expands its probe into Alaska’s US Senate election
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News
• Seven flights across Europe targeted by suspected bomb threats
  Source: BBC News - World
• Seven planes across Europe searched or diverted after ‘malicious hoax’ bomb threats
  Source: The Guardian - World
• Binance says fake job interviews used as part of $6.3bn crypto hack
  Source: BBC News - World
• Yemen: Houthi clashes near Taiz leave residents in a 'state of panic'
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English
• Multiple flights to European airports targeted by bomb threats
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English
• Europe on alert after supermarket freezers hit by cyber-attacks in 10 countries
  Source: BBC News - World
• Major test for Australia's social media ban begins in High Court
  Source: BBC News - World
• If hackers can take control of a supermarket freezer, how vulnerable is other tech?
  Source: BBC News - World
• 'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack
  Source: BBC News - World
• What we know about the alert app hack in Ukraine and Russia
  Source: BBC News - World
• Binance's $6.3bn crypto hack biggest in history
  Source: BBC News - Business

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