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Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers

RapperBot, a botnet-for-hire blamed for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks, has been yanked offline by the Feds, who also hauled in its alleged Oregon-based mastermind.…

French president Emmanuel Macron has claimed the lawsuit he and his wife have filed against right-wing American influencer Candace Owens was put forward to 'defend his honour.'

The US Open is reportedly braced for an invasion of sex-crazed bugs, with authorities warning tennis stars, including Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper, to stomp them to death.

The High Street duly took note of the colours, trends and shapes on this year's catwalks. So, you can get the designer Autumn look at a fraction of the price.

Brueckner, the key suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the 3-year-old, is serving a seven-year sentence for multiple charges including the rape of a 72-year-old women in Portgual.

The 30-year-old addict son of the celebrity chef was seen last month openly buying and smoking drugs on the streets of London, shortly before being arrested for a string of burglaries.

Climate Central's Coastal Risk Screening Tool shows the areas around the globe that would be worst hit ig the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed - sparking 9.8ft of sea level rise.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Adweek: Meta wanted advertisers to believe its ecommerce ad product, Shops ads, was outperforming the competition, per a whistleblower complaint filed in a U.K. court. The former employee alleges the social media giant artificially inflated return on ad spend (ROAS) by counting shipping fees as revenue, subsidizing bids in ad auctions, and applying undisclosed discounts. The complaint, viewed by ADWEEK, was filed with the London Central Employment Tribunal on Wednesday (August 20) by Samujjal Purkayastha, a former product manager on Meta's Shops ads team. The document claims Meta artificially inflated performance metrics to push brands toward its fledgling ecommerce ad product. The company's motivation, the complaint says, was in part to combat Apple's 2021 privacy changes that cut the troves of iOS tracking information that had long powered Meta's ad machine. Meta's former chief financial officer (CFO), David Wehner, said the changes would cost "on the order of $10 billion" in losses during the company's Q4 2021 earnings call. User purchases on Facebook or Instagram Shops pages would provide more first-party data, however. Purkayastha, who joined Meta (then Facebook) in 2020 as a product manager on the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Applied Research team, was reassigned to the Shops Ads team in March 2022 and remained at the company until Feb. 19, 2025, when he was terminated. He alleged that during internal reviews in early 2024, Meta data scientists found the return on ad spend (ROAS) from Shops ads had been inflated between 17% and 19%. This discrepancy stemmed from Meta counting shipping fees and taxes as part of a sale, even though that money never went to merchants, he alleged. The company's other ad products exclude those figures, in line with competitors like Google, the complaint reads. Without including the fees and taxes, Shops ads performed no better than Meta's traditional ads, Purkayastha claimed. "This was significant," the complaint reads. "In addition to the ROAS performance metric being overstated by nearly a fifth, it meant that, rather than having exceeded our primary target, the Shops Ads team had in fact missed it once the figure was reduced to take account of the artificial inflation." Purkayastha raised these concerns with senior leadership in multiple meetings between 2022 and 2024, and is now seeking interim relief through his employment tribunal filing to have his former position reinstated. A Meta spokesperson told ADWEEK the company is "actively defending these proceedings," adding that "allegations related to the integrity of our advertising practices are without merit and we have full confidence in our performance review processes."

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The restaurant is brand new and has created an additional ten jobs

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has revealed the motivation behind his decision to relocate to Dubai just months after quitting his punditry role at TNT Sports.

American Aimee Betro, 45, who wore a niqab in an attempt to disguise her appearance before shooting Sikander Ali, 33, at close range outside his house in 2019, has been jailled for 30 years.

Shannon Burns was dismissed for her behaviour at the off-site event, where she lost her keys, despite her claims that male colleagues were 'far more intoxicated' and faced no punishment.

Katie Price is set for fresh heartache as her daughter Princess Andre is in talks for a second series of her ITV2 reality show, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Layover programmes laid on by airlines are increasingly common - but still relatively unknown amongst tourists - and they can see you enjoying a free night in a nice hotel at your connection city.

Lucy Harrison, 23, died on Friday, January 10, at her father's home in Prosper, Texas.

Forget the 4,000 mile trip to the Bahamas for a close encounter with the island's adorable 'swimming pigs' - as there's a destination much closer to the UK that offers the same unique experience. 

'Deeply loved' Jade Damarell, 32, died instantly following a 60-second freefall in Shotton Colliery, County Durham.

Russian attacks on western Ukraine killed one person and wounded multiple others, officials in the country said Thursday as diplomatic efforts to end the three-year war grind on.

The dessert parlour is due to open very soon

Marketing strategist Claudia, who left the UK six years ago for a paradise island, says she won't ever move back home - and lists her very honest reasons why in a video on TikTok.