The strike by American actors is already one of the largest strikes in the United States in at least thirty years. The 160,000 striking members of the actors’ union Sag-Aftra have brought Hollywood to a standstill for 39 days – totaling nearly 4.5 million workdays lost due to the strike. Since 1993, there have been only two strikes with more …

Five hacking groups are attempting to breach a satellite orbiting the Earth. This is happening with the permission of the US government, as reported by the news site Politico on Friday. It would be the first time that hackers are used to gain control over a space satellite. The attempts to remotely take control of the satellite are taking place …

The largest accounting firms in the US are urging their clients to join them in resisting new proposals from the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) that would hold accountants more accountable for compliance with laws and regulations and for detecting fraud in audit clients. The Financial Times reports on this matter. On August 7th, the PCAOB will close the …

Understanding the Market Forces Driving Cryptocurrency’s Value is essential for conscious trade. And while we generally know that it’s all about fear and greed, some more precise models are needed to explain and if possible predict the price movement. Let’s take bitcoin for example. Why it goes down? The advent of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, has revolutionized the financial landscape, challenging …

Yesterday, after 2 years of uncertainty, the European Commission decided that the United States provides sufficient guarantees for secure personal data transfers. This means that transferring data to the US has now become much easier. Where did this decision come from? In July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a groundbreaking ruling: Schrems II. The Court …

Extreme heat in the southern US, in the states of Texas and New Mexico, is breaking record after record, testing residents’ endurance to the limit. The heat, sometimes reaching 48 degrees during the day, is not the only problem in this regard. The high nighttime temperatures add to it. There is no escape. A high-pressure area, filled to a high …

Federal U.S. government agencies have been ordered to take offline all management interfaces of routers, switches, firewalls, VPN’s, load balancers and proxies that can be accessed from the Internet. The order comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). That states that attackers are increasingly managing to compromise organizations via misconfigured network devices. In …

JP Morgan Chase bank has reached an agreement with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein for compensation. The bank announced this together with the victims’ lawyers. According to The New York Times, the amount is $290 million. This would allow the bank to settle all claims from the victims at once. “Any association with Epstein was a mistake and we regret …

Ted Kaczynski has died. The man better known as the Unabomber turned 81 years old. Guards found him dead in his cell Saturday morning. The Unabomber gripped the United States from the late 1970s into the 1990s with multiple bombings. These left three dead and 23 injured. It wasn’t until 1996 that he was arrested, at his home in the …

Let us introduce Nadezhda Grishaeva, a professional ex-basketball player with experience in the North American basketball league. Nadezhda also played for the French Arras Pays d’Artois, the Turkish Besiktas. She is the winner of the European Cup and The Euro League medallist. Nadezhda Grishaeva is a founder of the ANVIL. She stands behind the club’s original design, advanced training equipment, …