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Skip to main contentSyosset, NYNorthport, NYOyster Bay, NYHalf Hollow Hills, NYPlainview, NYCommack, NYKings Park, NYHicksville, NYFarmingdale, NYDeer Park-North Babylon, NYNew YorkTop National NewsSee All Communities September 13, 2021 SACRAMENTO, CA – In an ongoing effort to engage young voters who remain largely underrepresented in California's electorate, the California Secretary of State's Office has partnered with Snapchat to launch an educational Augmented Reality Lens to remind voters to cast their ballot in the California Gubernatorial Recall Election.Find out what's happening in Huntington with free, real-time updates from Patch.On Election Day, all Californian Snapchat users can open Snapchat to use the Snapchat x California Secretary of State "Vote Safe CA" statewide lens which will link voters with additional information to vote at Vote.ca.gov. "When young people start participating in elections, it paves the way for a lifetime of civic participation," Secretary of State Shirley Weber said. "We are constantly looking for new ways to get young voters aware, engaged, and activated so they have an active say in the future we're creating here in California."Find out what's happening in Huntington with free, real-time updates from Patch.Snapchat Lenses are AR experiences that transform the way users look at the world To use the…

A YouTube star told TODAY Parents she's consumed with regret after she posted a video of herself coaching her already distressed child on how to cry for the camera.In the now-deleted clip, titled "We are heartbroken," Jordan Cheyenne explained that her family’s puppy had been diagnosed with a potentially deadly illness.Cheyenne’s son, Christian, 8, was seen sobbing loudly in the passenger seat as she broke the news to her 500,000 subscribers.“Come closer,” Cheyenne told him, while pulling him towards her. “Act like you’re crying.”“I am crying,” the little boy replied. “Mom, I’m actually seriously crying.”Cheyenne coached Christian to scrunch up his face, told him to wail in a certain way and told him how to place his hand.“Let them see your mouth,” the parenting and lifestyle vlogger said. “Look at the camera.”After uploading the footage last week, Cheyenne was swiftly criticized on social media.“The Jordan Cheyenne video is so disturbing and hard to watch," wrote Twitter user Andrea Russett. "Social media can be so dark.”Cheyenne spoke to TODAY Parents on Tuesday, saying that what she did was "disgusting" and "inexcusable" — but not uncommon for people who put their children on YouTube."I want people to know that I've deleted my…

By Helen Clifton & Princess AbumereFile on 4 & BBC Africamedia captionHushpuppi, Nigerian social media influencer, funded his luxurious lifestyle by cybercrimeRamon Abbas - known to his 2.5 million Instagram followers as Hushpuppi - is considered by the FBI to be one of the world's most high-profile fraudsters and faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years in the US after pleading guilty to money laundering.The BBC has used newly available court documents to uncover the man behind cyber heists that have cost his victims millions, from his humble beginnings as a "Yahoo Boy" hustler in Nigeria to a so-called "Billionaire Gucci Master" living a life of luxury in Dubai before his arrest last year.The 37-year-old began his career in Oworonshoki, a poor coastal area in the north-east of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.Local driver Seye told the BBC that he remembered Abbas as a young boy working alongside his mother in the Olojojo market. His father was a taxi driver.As he grew older, Seye says, Abbas liked to splash his cash: "He was generous. He used to buy beer for everyone around."But everyone knew the source of his mysterious wealth - cybercrime; he was a "Yahoo", Seye says.image captionHushpuppi's…

Apple updates close the Pegasus gap Apple surprisingly presented new operating system versions on Tuesday night. The central innovation is the fact that the group has apparently finally succeeded in closing a “Zero Click” security hole exploited by the security company NSO Group, with which the Pegasus spyware was distributed via iMessage. The exploit, named FORCEDENTRY by the security organization Citizen Lab, gave Pegasus all-round access to Apple devices – including microphone, camera and all the data they contain. FORCEDENTRY was not only possible on iPhones. According to Apple, the underlying loophole was also in iPadOS, macOS and even watchOS. In all of these systems it has now been remedied with the new versions. LinkedIn discriminates against job applicants LinkedIn algorithms apparently have problems dealing with the EU’s fundamental right to free movement. According to the regulation, citizens of the community are allowed to work and live in any of the member states. According to a report by the organization AlgorithmWatch, however, the “Recruiter” service offered by the social network to maintain and initiate business contacts automatically classifies people who apply for a job in another EU country as “unsuitable”. Experts see this as a violation of European law. Our…

by: Sean O'Donnell Posted: Sep 14, 2021 / 04:45 PM MDT / Updated: Sep 14, 2021 / 04:45 PM MDT Denver Mayor Michael Hancock at a news conference about COVID-19 on May 14, 2020. DENVER (KDVR) — Can you imagine walking down the 16th Street Mall and having a bush jump up and scare you? That’s exactly what happened to Mayor Michael Hancock – and many other people – recently. In a video posted to the Texas Bushman YouTube channel, a man talks about how he was hiding in plain sight waiting to scare people. It’s not totally clear when the video was recorded, but it appears to be a weekend day from this summer, given the crowds, the clothing and the occasional mask. The prankster’s disguise is pretty clever, looking like an ivy bush in a planter. The only thing off is that it’s located somewhat in the middle of the walkway near the mall’s intersection with Arapahoe Street. The highlight though comes toward the end when Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen lets the prankster know one of his “victims” was Mayor Michael Hancock. The video then cuts to the scare in question, which you just need to experience…

Investors weren't at all cheered by the company's latest monthly update. What happened Video software and services company Vimeo (NASDAQ:VMEO) had a Tuesday to forget. The company's stock fell by just over 10% on the day, thanks to some less-than-inspiring monthly metrics published after market hours on Monday. So what As is its habit, Vimeo unveiled an update of several of its key metrics, this time for the month of August. For the period, its year-over-year growth in total revenue was 33%, continuing a declining streak following a peak of 60% in March. Image source: Getty Images. Growth in average revenue per user, meanwhile, was 15%, matching the July rate. But that's also down from the top levels of the preceding 13 months: 27%, achieved in December 2020 and February and March of this year. Finally, the one operational metric in the update, Vimeo's subscriber count, also clocked in at 15% growth for August. More or less following the pattern of the other yardsticks, this is low compared to earlier this year, when it reached a high of 26% in February. Vimeo stressed that the August data is preliminary, and therefore subject to adjustment. Save for that note, the tech…

After taking to Instagram to happily announce her engagement to boyfriend Sam Asghari over the weekend, Britney Spears’ account has been deleted. The sudden removal of her account comes after Spears re-shared an excerpt from an article titled “Infusing Education with Heart.”“I had to repost this so you can see the whole article!!!!! Growing up in a world where basically almost everything I did was controlled by someone else,” she wrote. “I hope this message gets to people who have been confused or manipulated by a system.” Spears concluded the since-deleted post by thanking the #FreeBritney movement for their long-standing support over her 13-year conservatorship, which could be coming to an end after her father Jamie filed a petition last week asking that the court consider ending it. Related StoriesSTORY CONTINUES BELOWThe matter has taken quite a turn in recent months, especially after the singer’s bombshell testimony in June where she detailed the alleged “abusive” measures being taken by her conservators to control every aspect of her personal life.  A source tells Page Six that it was Spears’ decision to take her account down. “She’s happy and in a great place,” the insider said, adding, “and silence can be a powerful thing and a powerful message.” Britney has reportedly chosen to remove herself from social media “in light of…

A delivery worker cycles through Manhattan on December 02, 2020.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)A new report surveyed hundreds of delivery workers in New York City and found that many experienced unsteady wages, long hours, theft, and costly injuries. On top of that, they often described harsh treatment from restaurant owners, customers, and even the apps they work with.The report, titled “Essential but Unprotected,” is the result of a collaboration between researchers at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and two local advocacy organizations focused on immigrant workers: Los Deliveristas and the Worker’s Justice Project. As part of the report, the authors surveyed 500 app delivery workers in NYC during the pandemic—a time when in-person restrictions on dining and movement led to a surge in delivery work. They also conducted interviews and focus groups.The most common complaint expressed by delivery workers was low pay. For the average worker, the report estimated their hourly pay was around $12.  » Read More

by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, 4 hours ago LinkedIn has told a federal judge that analytics company hiQ Labs, which has been fighting a high-profile battle against LinkedIn since 2017 over its scraping policies, actually went out of business three years ago.In those three years, the companies have taken their fight over scraping to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld an injunction that prohibited LinkedIn from blocking hiQ, and the U.S. Supreme Court, which returned the case to the 9th Circuit for further consideration. Neither of those courts appeared to have been notified that hiQ allegedly ceased operations.“LinkedIn learned in the past few weeks that hiQ went out of business three years ago,” the Microsoft-owned platform wrote Friday in papers urging U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California to lift the order that prohibits LinkedIn from blocking access by hiQ.advertisementadvertisement“hiQ shuttering its operations is precisely the kind of changed circumstance that eliminates the risk of likely irreparable harm and compels dissolution of the injunction,” LinkedIn writes.A LinkedIn lawyer elaborated in court papers that an hiQ attorney disclosed on August 20 of this year that the company had ceased operating in August or September of…

Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 6:55 am Press Release: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (14 September 2021) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will on Wednesday 15 September issue a report analysing how artificial intelligence impacts our human rights. As part of the launch, the UN Human Rights Office will hold a live media briefing at 14:00 Geneva time (14:00 CEST) on 15 September.The speakers will be Peggy Hicks, the Director of Thematic Engagement at the UN Human Rights Office, and Tim Engelhardt, Human Rights Officer in the Rule of Law and Democracy Section.The report, which is part of UN Human Rights Office’s work on technology and human rights, looks at a range of issues, highlighting worrying developments, including “a sprawling ecosystem of largely non-transparent personal data collection and exchanges”. It sets out approaches for responding to what the High Commissioner calls “one of the most urgent human rights questions of our age,” and makes specific recommendations for action to governments and businesses.The live webcast will be available under the Live Now tab on the UN Web TV site: https://media.un.org/en/webtvFull broadcast material will also be made available: https://vimeo.com/unhumanrightsThe report (in English) will be accompanied by a…