News of the World

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Twitter says Olympics, IOC accounts hacked
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitt...SKBN2090SA
First Facebook, then the International Olympics Committee and FC Barcelona... This is a strange trend, don't you think? O_o?

Redcar cyber-attack: Council using pen and paper
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51504482

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's website and all computers at the authority were attacked on Saturday.

What kind of cyberattack was it? O_o? The council refused to tell but some cybersecurity expert thinks it might have been just another case of the dreadful ransomware attack. Who could tell the United Kingdom wasn't ready for this kind of attacks... O_O

Treat us like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Facebook's Zuckerberg
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germa...SKBN2090MA
So Zuckerberg now wants his company to be seen as a telecom-newspaper mix? O_o?

If you call somebody, you're responsible for what you tell the other guy over phone. If you publish some add on a newspaper, you're accountable for whatever it says. Even so how's he expecting that Facebook can be treated like a newspaper? Usually newspaper ignore mails unless they include something fishy that worries them or make them think it should hit the first page. Of course, some of them include some sort of mails from the audience section like on page 75 or so.

Facebook is dynamic, commentaries aren't closed after n amount of time like on newspapers' articles on the web. So all incumbent parties gotta get held responsible for their contents, don't you agree?

Rebuffed by UK, U.S. pitches 'big tent' for Huawei rivals in Europe
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germa...SKBN2090HP
And Washington keeps telling the world Huawei is a threat to any network's security. Will European allies buy their story? Or will Huawei win and get access to more European markets? Will Huawei show its "true colors" and start making mistakes that would confirm US accusations? O_o?