Jay-Z rape accuser says her allegation was false
A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 now says she has never met the rap superstar.
A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 now says she has never met the rap superstar.
Cuba has selected Carlos Larrazabal’s “Malecón” as its official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards, while Movistar Plus has acquired the film’s streaming rights in Spain. The announcements coincide with this year’s San Sebastián Intl. Film Festival, following the film’s festival journey through Mar del Plata, Miami and Havana. “Malecón” […]
بغداد اليوم - المثنى أعلن جهاز الامن الوطني اليوم "الجمعة 25 أيلول"، عن تفكيك شبكة لسرقة وتهريب النفط الى خارج العراق في محافظة المثنى. وبحسب البيان الذي تلقته "بغداد اليوم"، فقد أكد الجهاز اعتقال أربعة افراد يعملون من داخل مزرعة على سرقة وتهريب النفط من خلال شبكة انابيب تحت أرضية، موضحا "تم مداهمة الوكر وضبط المتهمين بالإضافة الى عجلات تستخدم لتهريب النفط". وتابع "العصابة اتخذت مزرعة بالقرب من مسار أحد الانابيب النفطية وكرا لعملياتها وقامت بأنشاء شبكة من الانابيب مدفونة تحت الأرض على عمق 270 متر"، مضيفا "عثر الجهاز على خرقين للأنبوب تستخدمها العصابة لسرقة النفط بالإضافة الى تحوير عجلات مخصصة لنقل الاسمنت لتصبح قادرة على نقل النفط". الجهاز أكد أيضا ان التحقيقات الأولية مع المتهمين بينت ان الأرباح الشهرية من عمليات السرقة التي تنفذها العصابة تصل الى نحو 500 مليون دينار شهريا، مشددا "بحسب التحقيقات التي جريت على الموقع فان الخرق يعود الى فترة طويلة".
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets," BitGet said in a post shared on X. "Bitget's cold wallets and the overwhelming majority of platform assets remain
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin of Roundcube Webmail versions 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7.1. The issue stems from a preg_replace() backslash
A new streaming platform aimed at independent film and supporting independent filmmakers has been unveiled. The Drive-In, a TVOD service that will operate within independent film and TV discovery app RecDek, is set to launch in October during the London Film Festival and with a founding cohort of indie filmmakers. The service will stream directly […]
A coalition of groups under the Block the Merger banner have filed an amicus brief – a third party representation in a court case – opposing the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The brief was filed late Thursday by Free Press, the Committee for the First Amendment, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the Future […]
The EU had said X "deceives users" by selling blue ticks without "meaningfully verifying" accounts.
May el-Toukhy’s “Woman Unknown” as be chosen as Denmark’s official entry for the international feature film race at the Oscars. “Woman Unknown” just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival from a jury presided over by Maggie Gyllenhaall. El-Toukhy was the sole female director in competition at this year’s Venice fest. In addition […]
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…
Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of living forever. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously…
The depiction of schizophrenia on screen — especially in horror movies — has largely seen the mental health condition linked to violent and unpredictable rages, showing people when something has gone horribly wrong. This “misrepresentation,” according to British filmmaker Billy Lumby (a BAFTA nominee for his short film “Samuel-613”), was part of the inspiration behind his […]