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close Video Kurt 'The CyberGuy' Knutsson on how to save money on gas Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how to save money on gas. Cybercriminals are at it once again. An alarming newly released report from the Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy revealed a new Nexus Android banking trojan capable of targeting a staggering 450 different banking and financial apps. CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER This new threat serves as a reminder of the constant need for vigilance and proactive measures by you to protect against these malicious cyber-attacks. What does the new Nexus do? The Nexus trojan is designed to operate stealthily, with the ability to hide from detection and evade security measures. Once installed on your device, the trojan can intercept and steal sensitive data such as login credentials, credit card details, and other financial … [Read more...] about Hundreds of banking apps at risk from the new Nexus Android trojan

“I wrote you a note, but I didn’t send it,” Lana Del Rey sings on her rangy ninth album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” — a 16-song, 78-minute collection as sprawling, hypnotic and incorrigibly American as an interstate highway. Many of the tracks have the run-on, handwritten feel of letters never mailed, and this particular one, the fluttering piano ballad “Sweet,” is addressed to a paramour who seems unwilling to go as deep as the 37-year-old Del Rey. “Lately we’ve been making out a lot,” she sings, spinning her signature, soft-serve swirl of the sacred and profane, “not talking ’bout the stuff that’s at the very heart of things.” More than any of its predecessors, this Del Rey album is about the very heart of things. Its themes and lyrical preoccupations are philosophical and weighty: the existence of God; the afterlife; the precise moment the soul leaves the body; the concessions of marriage and motherhood; fate; familial bonds; and, on the strikingly … [Read more...] about Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow

Protesters near Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images In March, as Donald Trump put out word that he was about to be arrested — by a “SOROS BACKED ANIMAL” for “A CRIME THAT DOESN’T EXIST” — Florida governor Ron DeSantis floated a subtle contrast. “Look, I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just — I can’t speak to that,” he told reporters, alluding to Trump’s very extant crime. To emphasize his own, porn-star-free marriage, DeSantis gave an interview to Piers Morgan in the New York Post. The Post, like most of the Murdoch media empire, has been operating almost indistinguishably from DeSantis’s proto-campaign for president. (“We see him as the future of the party,” a Fox News producer wrote in an email a few years ago.) This article fawned over DeSantis’s family, showing the devoted couple and their adorable children in a series of photos. And yet the weak point in this pitch … [Read more...] about What Ron DeSantis Can’t Fake

Intel, the Silicon Valley chip-making giant, paved the way last year when it picked the eastern German city of Magdeburg as the site for its first semiconductor factory in Europe, pledging to invest 17 billion euros (about $18.3 billion) — provided that Berlin throw in nearly €7 billion in subsidies. Wolfspeed, a North Carolina-based maker of silicon carbide chips used in electric cars, decided last month that southwestern Germany would be the perfect place for it to invest €2.5 billion to build its first European factory. Again, the agreement was contingent on hundreds of millions more from the government. Infineon, Germany’s largest chip maker, is looking to add two plants at its manufacturing site in Dresden, spending €5 billion, but it wants the government to cover about a fifth of that. Each of the projects promises to help ease the shortages of microchips that German industries have faced since the pandemic and create thousands of jobs, fueling an ecosystem that could … [Read more...] about Germany Wants More Chip Makers, but They Won’t Come Cheap

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For a long time, Joe Minter managed to share a yard with his wife, Hilda, their two sons and 100,000 of their neighbors. His scruffy three-bedroom house filled up most of a small city lot, just up the hill from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. But somehow he made it work. When these souls began to cry out for their own lawn ornaments, however, he realized he would have to find more room. The sloping land to the south and west of Mr. Minter’s dooryard belonged to the two historically black graveyards called Grace Hill and Shadow Lawn. “We are in the presence of about 100,000 African ancestors,” Mr. Minter will tell visitors who drop by on a Sunday morning. These are the emancipated slaves and farmers and steelworkers who made Birmingham: the muscle that built the “Magic City.” The dead weren’t going anywhere, but the rest of the neighborhood was thinning out, Mrs. Minter said. Some homeowners died off; others drove north and never came back. So the Minters began … [Read more...] about Scrap-Iron Elegy

When it was announced earlier this year that Jill Zarin would be joining the Season 2 cast of Peacock’s The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip , Housewives fans everywhere rejoiced. It would be a long-awaited homecoming for Zarin, who was fired from The Real Housewives of New York City in 2011 after an iconic four-season run—and a chance for Zarin to prove she’s no reality TV villain. Vicki Gunvalson, Zarin’s Ultimate Girls Trip co-star, often gets all the credit for being the original Real Housewife—“the OG of the OC,” as she has been dubbed by fans. Indeed, Gunvalson was a founding cast member in the first Housewives series ever, The Real Housewives of Orange County, and went on to boast a lengthy 14-season tenure. But it was Zarin and the apple-toting ladies of The Real Housewives of New York City who played a major role in shaping the franchise into the high-camp, high-drama, highly addictive reality TV phenomenon that it is today. Despite the fact that … [Read more...] about Jill Zarin Is Thrilled to Rejoin the ‘Dysfunctional’ Real Housewives Family