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23-Year-Old '' Has Luxury Cars After $35 Million of Investor Money

bought ads as news articles on websites like the to promote himself.

luxury cars, including two , two , and a , have been from 23-year-old Aiden Pleterski, the self-described “crypto king” of Canada, during bankruptcy proceedings according to a new report from the CBC.

But those cars are only worth a of the $35 million that Pleterski allegedly took from investors who thought he’d make them ?? in the market, and it’s not clear whether they’ll ever see their money again.

Pleterski and his company AP Private Equity Limited are facing at least two after 140 people have come forward to say they invested a combined $35 million with Pleterski.

Those people believed they were investing in cryptocurrency, and Pleterski’s online presence—including photos of the 23-year-old on and next to luxury cars—helped create the image that he knew what he was doing.

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! Cant tell you how many times I have seen this over the years.

Big Institution Scraping the Off the !? Started in Stock Markets.

Most crashes at 30% PER quarter after quarter.

Now morphed into Crypto. Bitcoin 30% crash.

BIG INSTITUION COLLECTING 30% COMMISSIONS.. Check any app store.. the going rate;)..

Big Institutions will continue to scrap the Gravy off Top (whether you) like it or not.. Say What??

INSIDER TRADING ON BIONICS

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! BOYCOTT .

Massive & Invasion of , Data Protection Rights and Citizen Personal VIOLATED by A PRIVATE CLOUD CALLED AWS piggy backing off of ORACLE!

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‘’ Is a That’s Unstoppable Because Owns Everything?

Amazon owns , , and production company . It owns , and has the support of police around the country. What can stop it?

On Tuesday, 40 published an open letter calling on MGM Television executives to the studio's upcoming Ring Nation, which will feature former and comedian presenting humorous captured from Ring doorbell cameras.

The groups say the studio is "normalizing and promoting Amazon Ring’s dangerous network of surveillance cameras," which, along with the Neighbors app, "violate basic privacy rights, fuel surveillance-based policing that disproportionately targets people of color and threatens abortion seekers, and enables vigilantes to surveil their neighbors and racially profile bystanders."

There's just one potential problem with the well-intentioned campaign: Amazon owns Ring, producer Big Fish Entertainment, and distributor MGM, and it also owns the Prime Video streaming service should it need somewhere to air it. It also has specific partnerships with thousands of police departments around the country should they happen to prove useful.

This tower of vertical integration means that Ring Nation is a show designed from the ground up to leverage Amazon's vast monopoly to push its own product on Americans, and it also means that it will probably (but not definitely) be impossible to kill. There’s very little chance that MGM executives will push back on the project when it's probably exactly the type of thing Amazon imagined being able to do when it spent $8.5 billion on a merger with MGM this year.

There is a kind of fifth column pushing this project over the line, too: Amazon and Ring's cozy relationship with police. As Motherboard has reported, Ring has forged partnerships with thousands of police departments and helped to foster a culture of paranoia around crime in U.S. suburbs while giving authorities a widespread video surveillance network to pull from—sometimes without a warrant.

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and now building the world's longest

Descending up to 40 meters the Baltic Sea, the world's longest immersed tunnel will link Denmark and Germany, slashing journey times between the when it opens in 2029.

After more than a decade of planning, construction started on the in 2020 and in the months since a temporary harbor has been completed on the Danish side. It will host the factory that will soon build the 89 massive concrete sections that will make up the tunnel.

"The expectation is that the first production line will be ready around the end of the year, or beginning of next year," said Henrik Vincentsen, CEO of Femern A/S, the state-owned Danish company in charge of the project. "By the beginning of 2024 we have to be ready to immerse the first tunnel element."

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'Not my King': Charles gets booed in Edinburgh; Protest reignites Scotland's independence debate

After the Queen's death, her eldest son, Charles, took over as King of the United Kingdom.

However, not everyone seems to be happy with their new monarch.

The Royal Proclamation of Charles as King was greeted with from in 's Capital, Edinburgh.

But those boos were by chants of 'God Save The King' and a booming gun salute.

Shortly after this, a woman was spotted with a banner which read, ' the '.

She was not alone as another lady raised a banner that read, 'NOT MY KING'.

Watch this report to learn more about protests against the new King.

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hold signs in after ..

Anti-monarchists staged outside the Houses of on Tuesday, after police a with arrest if he held up a sign reading '.’

Protesters, some carrying blank signs and some carrying those with anti-monarchy slogans, called for of speech and the right to protest. As Guardian reporter Damian Gayle spoke to them, a police officer came to ask questions about the protest.

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA?

HEY JOE, Out of all the Mainstream Actors.. OOPS I mean HOSTS you are the only one that WE FEEL HAS A CLUE. That a Compliment btw that very few meet;)

You have the only bc you give HOPE that ‘Common Sense’ still exists on the Planet!:)

Your not afraid to call a Spade a Spade. We are more Blunt about it. Hitting things with blunt object(s) produce better results.. Lil heads up there.. grin.

So this commercial is running during your Morning hours. I remember commercial like this, running after midnight but NEVER DURING .

I means kids are awake watching TV. Not that they watch your ?? but THEY ARE flipping through channels.

Like at dinner time >> female deodorant (down there commercials UGH!) --while eating dinner
MORE ugh!.

We MEN don’t want to see that disgusting crap after a hard days work and all we want is a PEACEFUL DINNER??

In the same way WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE a bunch of GROWN MEN crawling around with sexual implications WHILE STICKING IN THE ???

THEY JUST .
AND THEY DONT BTW?

IN THE .

What does this say to our ??

Can you shed any light on that? Or has fallen into such Deep Dark Caverns of ??

Or is because you just had Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on an interview PREVIOUSLY?
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA?

HEY JOE, Out of all the Mainstream Actors.. OOPS I mean HOSTS you are the only one that WE FEEL HAS A CLUE. That a Compliment btw that very few meet;)

You have the only bc you give HOPE that ‘Common Sense’ still exists on the Planet!:)

Your not afraid to call a Spade a Spade. We are more Blunt about it. Hitting things with blunt object(s) produce better results.. Lil heads up there.. grin.

So this commercial is running during your Morning hours. I remember commercial like this, running after midnight but NEVER DURING .

I means kids are awake watching TV. Not that they watch your ?? but THEY ARE flipping through channels.

Like at dinner time >> female deodorant (down there commercials UGH!) --while eating dinner
MORE ugh!.

We MEN don’t want to see that disgusting crap after a hard days work and all we want is a PEACEFUL DINNER??

In the same way WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE a bunch of GROWN MEN crawling around with sexual implications WHILE STICKING IN THE ???

THEY JUST .
AND THEY DONT BTW?

IN THE .

What does this say to our ??

Can you shed any light on that? Or has fallen into such Deep Dark Caverns of ??

Or is because you just had Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on an interview PREVIOUSLY?
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The Behind | Mapped PATH>> >> >> >> >> >>>> | ? | MASS DATABASE Of ??

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Apple LOSES $85 BILLION in After

Many here do not understand the internet.

1st we were here before .

In fact we INVENTED AND FOUNDED the grounding --hence stolen to make these one hit wonders what they are today?

imho.

* We know you will never thank us for your Success.

* We know that you will never do the and admit your .

* We know you will never give where is .

* We know you will never the people of since you cant pull your faces away from your own mirrors for 5 seconds..

Therefore you will all lose your money. !

DO YOU THINK FOR A SECOND THAT APPLE 85 BY ?

* BY POOR MANAGEMENT?

* BY NOT ENOUGH FUNDS?

AND .
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JUST LIKE ! which to us 85 billion is just a drop in the bucket and we are coming for the rest.

We will Empty your Pockets

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Scarface: My balls and my word

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More than two dozen civil organizations and advocacy groups are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to block Amazon’s $1.7 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot. If allowed to go through, the advocates warn the deal could “endanger fair competition,” and jeopardize consumer privacy.

Fight for the Future, Public Citizen, and Athena were among the 26 organizations that sent an open letter to the FTC’s five commissioners on Friday. The groups view Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot, which they described as a “competing smart home device business” as an anti-competitive action that could harm the overall consumer technology market.

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NEW WAVE of hits devices

-maker QNAP is urging customers to update their network-attached immediately to protect them from a new wave of ongoing ransomware attacks that can destroy of data in a single stroke.

QNAP said recently that it has identified a new campaign from a ransomware group known as . The attacks take aim at QNAP NAS devices that use a proprietary feature known as Photo Station. The advisory instructs customers to update their firmware, suggesting there is a vulnerability that’s under exploit, but the company makes no explicit mention of a CVE designation that security professionals use to track such security flaws.

“To protect your NAS from the DeadBolt ransomware, QNAP strongly recommends securing your QNAP NAS devices and routers by following these instructions,” company officials wrote:

Disable the port forwarding function on the router
Set up on the NAS to enable secure remote access and prevent exposure to the Internet
Update the firmware to the latest version
Update all applications on the NAS to their latest versions
Apply strong passwords for all user accounts on the NAS
Take and back up regularly to protect your data
The advisory applies to the following devices:

QTS 5.0.1: Photo Station 6.1.2 and later
QTS 5.0.0/4.5.x: Photo Station 6.0.22 and later
QTS 4.3.6: Photo Station 5.7.18 and later
QTS 4.3.3: Photo Station 5.4.15 and later
QTS 4.2.6: Photo Station 5.2.14 and later

DeadBolt first appeared in January, and within a few months, Internet security scanning service said the ransomware had infected thousands of QNAP devices. The company took the unusual step of automatically pushing the update to all devices, even those that had automatic updating turned off.

Now, DeadBolt is back. Users first learn of the infection in ransom notes like this one:

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declares itself a

North Korea has passed a law declaring itself to be a nuclear weapons state, according to state news agency KCNA.

The country's leader called the decision "" and ruled out the possibility of any talks on , it said.

The law also enshrines the country's right to use a nuclear to itself.

Despite , has conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017.

It has continued to advance its capability - in of Security Council resolutions - to threaten its neighbors and potentially even bring the mainland within .

Mr Kim carried out launches and nuclear tests in 2019 following two headline-grabbing but inconclusive summits with then US president Donald Trump.

What we know about N Korea's missile and nuclear programme
Wargaming a North Korean attack
But talks between the countries have since stalled. Although the Biden administration has indicated it's willing to talk to Pyongyang, it hasn't said whether President Joe Biden would meet Mr Kim.

The also said its attempts to contact Pyongyang and overtures of help over its outbreak had gone so far.

The US reviewed its North Korea policy last year and reiterated that "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula was the goal. Mr Biden said he would pursue it with a mix of diplomacy and "stern deterrence". Mr Kim responded by saying his country must prepare for both "dialogue and confrontation".

Meanwhile, tensions on the Korean peninsula have spiked this year with Pyongyang firing a record number of ballistic missiles.

South Korea and the US have responded with a volley of missiles and the largest joint military exercises on the peninsula in years.

bbc.com/news/world-asia-628459

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’s Largest to Be Before

The ship that would have become the world’s largest has been scrapped before it ever had the chance to take its .

If wasting wild amounts of resources and money is your type of thing, this is the story for you.

was slated to carry 9,000 and was built by shipbuilding firm to the tune of nearly $US1.4 ($2) , according to the Daily Mail. It was nearly finished when the company went at the start of this year.

Since that happened, has stepped up to buy the 20-deck, 341.99 m-long monstrosity.

That means it’s now destined for the . The Mail says that Global Dream II also features an outdoor waterpark and a movie theatre. Man, I really don’t get cruises.

The capacity of this ship blows the second largest ship, the Oasis-class Wonder of the Sea which is owned and operated by Royal Caribbean, out of the water (I love a good pun). The Wonder of the Seas has a passenger capacity of only 6,988. Pathetic.

Despite the $US1.4 ($2) billion put out to build this behemoth, the ship still needs about $US230,000,000 ($319,286,000) worth of work. Apparently, it is structurally complete, but equipment and passenger facilities still need to be finished.

Eagle-eyed readers will have noted the “II” in the ship’s name. Yes, there is a twin Global Dream, but it hasn’t been given the ax… yet.

gizmodo.com.au/2022/09/worlds-

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France has taken steps to so-called dark stores - city-centre used for instant ordered over the .

Faced by from people as well as , President Emmanuel Macron's government has decreed that the be as , rather than as shops - meaning that in and other cities most will be to close.

Run by half a dozen competing companies such as , , , and , "dark stores" have proliferated in France as elsewhere over the last two years after confinement popularised .

in Paris urges to get their in less than 10 minutes - or "quicker than a double by Benzema", referring to the French football star. A campaign by Cajoo shows "Alex" doing his shopping by smartphone while sitting on the lavatory.

But residents of buildings where "dark stores" have replaced pre-existing grocery shops are angry about noise from early morning lorries and the disruption caused by squads of deliverers on electric bicycles and scooters.

City officials - who spent millions to safeguard the high street against out-of-town shopping centres - are worried that the new threat from "quick commerce" will drain life from public spaces and hasten the trend to an "atomised" society of solitary consumers.

"We can't sleep any more," said Samira, who has launched a petition against a "dark store" in her building in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

"There is constant scooter noise, and the drivers hang outside till one in the morning, smoking weed and urinating on the street," she added.

Typically "dark stores" - of which there are about 80 in Paris - present a blank front to the street, with just the name of the company on a frosted window. But inside are shelves of commonly bought goods, which are stacked into bags and handed to waiting couriers.

The public has no access, and there is no possibility of buying the goods inside except by ordering over the internet.

Paris City Hall has tried for months to control the spread - but with limited success. Officials complain of legal loopholes which the operators have been able to exploit, and of fines too meagre to have an impact.

But after the capital joined forces with other cities like Lyon, Nice and Montpellier, their combined pressure this week convinced the government to clarify town planning laws and make it easier for municipalities to shut down "dark stores".

"Once this decree is finalised, there will be no ambiguity. Dark stores will be officially designated as warehouses, not as shops, which means local mayors will have powers to act if they choose," said Small Businesses Minister Olivia Grégoire after a meeting with city officials from across France.

"This is not just a question of noise and traffic disruption. It's a question of society," said Camille Augey, a deputy mayor of Lyon.

"We need to ask ourselves what we want. Does every need have to be immediately satisfied regardless of external consequences? Do we really need that packet of pasta or bottle of shampoo at 11 o'clock at night? Can it really not wait until the morning?"

"We managed perfectly well before quick commerce, didn't we?" she added.

None of the "dark store" operators contacted by the BBC would give an interview. In a statement Gorillas said that it brought "dynamism to town centres - creating jobs but also new outlets for local producers".

It said it would need time to study the government's new decree before reacting.

The separate phenomenon of "dark kitchens" - diner-less restaurants where meals are prepared for delivery - will also be affected by the new government policy, though it remains unclear exactly how.

bbc.com/news/world-europe-6283

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The Facebook button is disappearing from websites as consumers demand better privacy

* Companies like Dell have been removing social logins from their websites.

* Logging in with Facebook credentials used to be available across the web, but reputational issues and stagnant user growth has dampened the social network’s influence.

* “People started feeling like it’s a breach of their personal space,” said Rakesh Soni, the CEO of digital identity management firm LoginRadius.

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employees and backers sue over Cash_Sanctions.

Six users of Tornado Cash, a popular service, filed a on Thursday against the U.S. Treasury Department, , and other officials over their decision to on the service in August.

The outcome of the case, which turns on the novel legal question of whether the U.S. government can impose sanctions on publicly available , is likely to have for the industry for years to come.

In a 20-page filed in in , the users claim the decision to sanction Tornado Cash exceeded the government’s authority; violated their free speech and property rights under the U.S. Constitution; and “threatens the ability of law-abiding Americans to engage freely and privately in financial transactions.”

In recent years, Tornado Cash has emerged as a popular tool for those wishing to hide their . Using on the , it allows users to deposit crypto into a pool alongside other users and then distribute it to third-party wallets; the process makes it highly difficult to determine who gave funds to a given wallet.

The plaintiffs in the case include , a prominent figure in the Ethereum community who claims he cannot access thousands of dollars worth of Ethereum deposited with Tornado Cash, and his brother, Joseph, who says he intended to use the service to privately fund an Ethereum node and staking service but can no longer do so because of the sanctions.

The plaintiffs also include , a California security analyst at , who alleges that he used Tornado Cash to make anonymous to support Ukraine. Almeida claims the U.S. placing sanctions on the service impedes his right to donate—and by extension his right to express himself under the First Amendment.

Almeida is one of two Coinbase employees to put their name on the lawsuit. The company, whose CEO, Brian Armstrong, has vocally objected to the sanctions on Tornado Cash, is paying the legal bills of the employees and four other plaintiffs.

“We didn’t do this lightly. We have lots of respect for [sanctions agency] OFAC and Treasury for their work keeping us safe,” said Coinbase’s head lawyer, Paul Grewal, who added that the company believes the government overstepped its authority by placing sanctions on code.

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The decision by the Treasury Department to impose sanctions on code used by Tornado Cash has alarmed the crypto industry and the broader software development community who fear the move will and .

The legal regime used to the is hardly new—it was crafted under (DavidV side note: a of ) as a means to combat the increasingly sophisticated financial tools used by terrorists and rogue states to launder money and skirt sanctions.

Until now, however, the Treasury has imposed the sanctions—violations of which bring severe penalties—on people or companies. But in the Tornado Cash case, the target of the sanctions is not a specific entity but a series of smart contracts.

“The Tornado Cash privacy protocol consists of perpetually self-executing code on the Ethereum blockchain that cannot be altered, edited, or otherwise controlled,” the complaint notes.

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Scientists Create Controlled by

The cockroaches might be used in and missions or for environmental monitoring in the future.

In a series of experiments, the team demonstrated how the system could steer the roach right, as desired, via a system. You can see that above.

And, for now, that's as far as they've got.

"The current system only has a wireless locomotion control system, so it's not enough to prepare an application such as urban rescue," said Kenjiro Fukuda, an expert in flexible electronics at Japan's Riken. "By integrating other required devices such as sensors and cameras, we can use our cyborg insects for such purposes."

Fukuda notes cameras would likely require a lot more power, but there are sensors that use little power that could be integrated into the system today. If cameras were able to be used, they would likely be very low resolution.

Notably, because of the design of the ultrathin solar cell, Fukuda notes it could be applied to other insects -- potentially even creating a flying army of robot insects controlled by human hands. Beetles and cicadas are potential candidates.

Insect robots are having a bit of a moment. In July, researchers at Rice University unveiled their spider "necrobots" -- insect-machine hybrids they used to create the world's creepiest claw machine.

But those spiders were dead. The roaches aren't.

I must admit that when I saw the images of the roboroaches crawling in a certain direction, I felt a weird pang of... guilt. Or something like it, perhaps. I wondered if there was any sort of understanding by the creepy crawlers that their legs are being steered against their own will and whether this process was painful. Fortunately, "according to research related to insects, cockroaches do not experience pain," said Fukuda. Phew.

However, there has been some research in recent years looking at how insects might experience emotive states and discussion about the ethical implications of such research. A recent piece in Undark magazine wrestled with the question of insect pain, too, noting there's still a lack of understanding about insect consciousness.

First published on Sept. 5, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. PT.

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The Indian government is looking to tax winnings of online games as the sector grows in popularity.

Direct tax officials are scrutinising the data for up to 58,000 crore rupees ($7.2 billion) won over the past three years on an online gaming platform, The Indian Express newspaper reported today (Sept. 5).

Authorities have urged taxpayers to file taxes on such undeclared winnings for the past two assessment years, 2019-20 and 2020-21, the report said.

“Some may have earned more and some less...They are usually in a ledger account and they merge win and loss, it (data) is humongous,” Nitin Gupta, chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, told The Indian Express.

More than 20,000 taxpayers have filed updated returns for both 2020-21 and 2021-22 until Sept. 02, with undeclared tax payments valued at over Rs50 crore.

A 28% tax may hamper India’s online gaming sector
In May, India’s finance ministry proposed 28% GST on all earnings from online games, regardless of whether the game is based on skill or chance.

The GST council will now review this during its meeting this month.

“...levying 28% GST on this [online gaming] sector may impact the growth and future investment in this niche field,” Pratik Jain, partner at PriceWaterhouse & Co, told CNBCTV-18 in July.

“The GST council may want to distinguish between the game of chance and a game of skill. While the game of chance may warrant a higher levy, GST on the game of skills should be ideally retained at 18%.”

The industry makes a significant contribution to India’s GST revenues—more than Rs2,200 crores—a study by EY and Assocham showed.

In the financial year 2020-21, the industry was worth Rs13,600 crore. It is likely to reach Rs29,000 crore by 2025, according to a KPMG report.

The proposed taxation of 28%, along with 30% income tax on winnings, takes the total tax rate on online gaming between 45-50%, industry experts said.

This could spell “game over” for the fledgeling industry.

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