Home Office records busiest December day for migrant Channel crossings on record
More than 34,500 people have made the crossing from France so far this year Source link
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Cinecitta Studios to Approve Restated Financial Records
Rome’s iconic Cinecittà Studios is drowning in red ink. The Hollywood Reporter Roma has learned that the studios’ losses in the first half of 2024 amounted to 13.5 million euros ($14 million), while Cinecittà’s share capital stands at just 22.7 million euros ($23.8 million). Sources close to the studios report that the shareholders’ meeting, scheduled for Thursday, will formally acknowledge the errors made by the previous management and may pursue legal action against former CEO Nicola Maccanico, who signed off on the 2023 accounts. The dramatic financial turmoil engulfing Cinecittà has escalated in recent days, setting the stage for a potentially explosive resolution in the next chapter of this ongoing financial thriller on Thursday. On Monday, it was revealed that Cinecittà president Chiara Sbarigia and other board members were informed on Aug. 1 of alleged irregularities in the studios’ financial statements. An independent audit uncovered a potential shortfall of approximately 6.7 million euros ($7 million). Sbarigia confirmed to THR Roma that a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit had indicated the need to restate the company’s financial results, requiring adjustments to …
Hacked pupil records at Capita rise to more than 50k
A full investigation reveals more pupil records have been impacted than initially thought A full investigation reveals more pupil records have been impacted than initially thought More from this theme Recent articles Up to 20,000 more pupils’ data may have been stolen in a cyber-attack on the government outsourcer Capita. Schools Week previously revealed how 30,000 pupil personal data records were thought to have been taken when hackers targeted the company last year. Ninety organisations had reported breaches of personal data held by Capita, which runs primary school SATs for the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). However, in a freedom of information response, the Department for Education has revealed that after a full investigation, 50,780 pupil records were “affected”. This included names, dates of birth, unique pupil number, type of test taken and the schools’ DfE number. This new figure “may have included duplicates”, the department said, so it was “unable to accurately determine the unique number of pupils that had their personal data compromised”. The government refused to release the full investigation report as …
Lucid keeps promises, Xiaomi records, supercharged Polestar
On today’s exciting episode of Quick Charge, Lucid proves than an EV company can keep its promises while Xiaomi teams up with Chevrolet and Honda to prove – at least conceptually – that records are made to be broken. We’ve also got a trio of heavy-hitting Tesla insiders selling nearly $300 million worth of TSLA stock and a new, extreme cold weather heat pump from Bosch to make home heating more efficient. Source Links Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonusLucid proves than an EV company can keep its promises while Xiaomi teams up with Chevrolet and Honda to prove – at least conceptually – that records are made to be broken. audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news! Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at [email protected]. You can also rate us on …
California acts to preserve records detailing underground puppy market
California has stopped destroying records that contain key details about the state’s underground puppy market after a Times investigation found that some unscrupulous resellers import hundreds of dogs from the Midwest with little oversight. Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, confirmed that the records the agency receives are now being preserved, but offered few other details about how the state will use them. “We have no staff that’s dedicated to this, so we’re a little bit hamstrung right now, but it’s not because we don’t want to be a part of the solution,” she said in a brief interview this week. In California, all dogs brought into the state for resale require a certificate issued by a federally accredited veterinarian listing the animal’s origin, destination and verification they are healthy to travel. The agriculture agency has long received those health certificates from other states by mistake — the records are supposed to go to county public health departments — and, in recent years, made it a practice to immediately scrap …
The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of medical data covering most people in the United States getting stolen, the worst data breaches of 2024 to date have already surpassed at least 1 billion stolen records and rising. These breaches not only affect the individuals whose data was irretrievably exposed, but also embolden the criminals who profit from their malicious cyberattacks. Travel with us to the not-so-distant past to look at how some of the biggest security incidents of 2024 went down, their impact and. in some cases, how they could have been stopped. AT&T’s data breaches affect “nearly all” of its customers, and many more non-customers For AT&T, 2024 has been a very bad year for data security. The telecoms giant confirmed not one, but two separate …
Will Lewis Is Said to Have Used Stolen Records as Editor in U.K.
The publisher and the incoming editor of The Washington Post, when they worked as journalists in London two decades ago, used fraudulently obtained phone and company records in newspaper articles, according to a former colleague, a published account of a private investigator and an analysis of newspaper archives. Will Lewis, The Post’s publisher, assigned one of the articles in 2004 as business editor of The Sunday Times. Another was written by Robert Winnett, whom Mr. Lewis recently announced as The Post’s next executive editor. The use of deception, hacking and fraud is at the heart of a long-running British newspaper scandal, one that toppled a major tabloid in 2010 and led to years of lawsuits by celebrities who said that reporters improperly obtained their personal documents and voice mail messages. Mr. Lewis has maintained that his only involvement in the controversy was helping to root out problematic behavior after the fact, while working for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. But a former Sunday Times reporter said on Friday that Mr. Lewis had personally assigned him to …
UN chief urges fossil fuel ad ban as heat records pile up
BAN ON OIL ADS “The Godfathers of climate chaos – the fossil fuel industry – rake in record profits and feast off trillions in taxpayer-funded subsidies,” Guterres said. “I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies,” he said, likening it to bans on other products harmful to human health like tobacco. “We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell,” he said as signatories of the Paris Agreement are expected to deliver new emissions targets by early 2025. Guterres also repeated calls for taxing the fossil fuel industry profits to finance the fight against global warming, specifically pointing to “solidarity levies on sectors such as shipping, aviation and fossil fuel extraction”. “Even if emissions hit zero tomorrow, a recent study found that climate chaos will still cost at least US$38 trillion a year by 2050,” he said. That is more than the US$2.4 trillion needed by 2030 for developing countries, excluding China, to get out of fossil fuels and adapt to a warmer planet, as estimated by UN experts. Guterres said he made his speech now with concerns that the climate crisis has become “a victim of …
Global temperature streak continues with record heat in April
April marked another “remarkable” month of record-breaking global air and sea surface temperature averages, according to a new report by the EU’s climate monitor published on Wednesday. Issued on: 08/05/2024 – 04:20 2 min The abnormally warm conditions came despite the continued weakening of the El Nino weather phenomenon that contributes to increased heat, said the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, pointing to human-caused climate change for exacerbating the extremes. Record heat Since June last year, every month has been the warmest such period on record, according to Copernicus. April 2024 was no exception, clocking in at 1.58 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. “While unusual, a similar streak of monthly global temperature records happened previously in 2015/16,” Copernicus said. The average temperature over the last 12 months was also recorded at 1.6C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the 1.5C target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming. The anomaly does not mean the Paris target has been missed, which is calculated over a period of decades. But it does signal “how …
Opposition leader challenges minister on records after inquiry revelations
“That was obviously a very challenging time for everyone in society, but particularly traumatic to those people who lost loved ones, and I fully support the work of the inquiry and hope that it will help those people come to terms with the devastating impact that it had on their lives,” she said. Source link