MUMBAI, India — Thirty-three-year-old media professional Mithun Mohandas first came to know about the Domino’s India data breach in mid-April when rumors were going around on the internet. On April 19, ethical hacker Rajshekhar Rajaharia tweeted about the data breach of 200 million orders made via Domino’s India. On May 21, Rajaharia tweeted a screenshot of a webpage from the dark web, a part of the internet that can’t be indexed by regular search sites, which had a search module to look up Dominos user details. Mohandas then searched for the link that would let him access the dark web page…
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Seeing pictures of Dafna Ben Nun cozying up to Emperor penguins in Alaska or to beluga whales in the White Sea speaks volumes about how animals instinctively trust Israel’s only female professional wildlife photographer. “I’m not allowed to approach them, but if they come close to me, then it’s fine and it means that they feel safe,” she said. Ben Nun’s monthly column in the Israeli edition of National Geographic for Kids uses photos of whales, polar bears, Tasmanian devils, baboons, pandas and many other creatures to instill a love of and respect for wild animals. Oryx in the Eilat…
Just as President Joe Biden hasn’t abandoned all of his predecessor’s policies on oil and gas, recent actions show that he is also continuing former President Donald Trump’s skeptical stance when it comes to China. After extending some of Trump’s investment restrictions on Chinese companies, Biden also gave support to bipartisan legislation passed by the Senate that would increase U.S. investment in cutting-edge technology in order to out-compete the world’s most populous nation. The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act cobbled together several pieces of legislation moving through the Senate, including the Endless Frontier Act, which would expand the National Science…
A photographer and drone pilot in Turkey used a Go Pro Hero 9 to produce a time-lapse video of the Milky Way over ruins in the 2,300-year-old former city of Blaundus in what is now Anatolia. One of the aims of Isa Turan in capturing these images was to draw attention to the impact of light pollution. “Light pollution is a natural disaster,” he said. “People living here used to be able to see the stars very clearly. When you watch the video, you can see the view is disrupted by lights coming from the surrounding settlements.” The city was…
A firetruck and its extendable ladder helped the Zurich Zoo tag 25 newly arrived storks — many of which were born in nests at dizzying heights. During the annual banding of the white stork offspring, the zoo used a little help from a local fire brigade and successfully tagged roughly two dozen chicks. The number of storks tagged this year was considerably lower than in 2020, when 40 storks were tagged, and even lower than in 2018, when 44 were. Zurich Zoo stated it believes the numbers were much higher last year because of the exceptionally warm weather. Higher temperatures…
A painting that was almost destroyed by the artist has been sold for a record $180,000 at an auction in Austria, well beyond an initial estimate of $42,000. The work by Ukrainian-French painter Marie Bashkirtseff (1860-1884), which she once slashed with a knife, was sold at the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna. It was repaired after the artist’s death. Frustrated because she believed she had failed to create a decent portrait of her cousin, Bashkirtseff, who was part of Paris’ art and intellectual scene, damaged the piece. “The Umbrella” was painted by Marie Bashkirtseff in 1883. (Wikimedia Commons/Zenger News)The painting…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The New Zealand government will officially apologize for its racist raids on Pacific people in the 1970s. On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the time had come to deliver an apology for the “dawn raids” when officials would target people believed to have overstayed their visas purely on the basis of their ethnicity. “The dawn raids period is a defining one in New Zealand’s history,” said Ardern. “To this day, many members of our Pacific community still struggle to talk about their experiences during that period. They were routinely severe with demeaning verbal and physical treatment.”…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A film based on the aftermath of the Christchurch Mosques terror attacks continues to generate anguish in New Zealand, casting doubt on whether the movie will be made. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has voiced her opposition to the project titled “They Are Us,” a phrase coined by the prime minister in one of her speeches after the massacre. Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel says filmmakers “would not be welcome” in the city, the site of the 2019 attack, which killed 51 people. And more than 57,000 Kiwis, as of June 14, have signed a petition asking FilmNation Entertainment, CAA Media…
BRISBANE, Australia — Six workers were seriously injured in a Queensland coal mine explosion because repeated over-production and poor planning led to dangerous gas build-up, an inquiry has found. The six miners were hospitalized after the explosion at Anglo-American’s Grosvenor Coal Mine at Moranbah on May 6, 2020. The Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry‘s second report released on June 14 states the disaster was caused by “spontaneous combustion.” It said the systemic cause of the disaster was repeated methane gas build-ups, or high potential incidents (HPIs), at long wall mine 104 (LW 104). The board said coal production regularly outstripped the mine’s…
CANBERRA, Australia — On its knees just a year ago, Australia’s economy has roared back to life with the promise of growth, jobs, and higher wages. On paper, it is enough to inspire a national sigh of relief. But not all that glitters is gold. For an alarming number of householders, making ends meet again would not happen quickly. The dream of homeownership remains elusive, savings have taken a nasty hit, winter power bills are biting, and petrol — now that most are out of lockdown — is again a noticeable expense. The pain is being felt by small business owners, too, especially…