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LAS VEGAS —  Having grown up in England and played in the Arsenal academy, Folarin Balogun knows something about passionate soccer rivalries.But it’s unlikely even that background prepared for him what he experienced Thursday when he made his U.S. national team debut in a 3-0 win over Mexico in a CONCACAF Nations League semifinal that ended with both teams missing multiple players to red cards.The victory, which ran the Americans’ unbeaten streak against Mexico to six games, also earned the U.S. a berth in Sunday’s…

The United States and six other countries on Wednesday identified the digital extortion gang operating under the "Lockbit" banner as the world's top ransomware threat.In a joint advisory, U.S., Canadian, British, French, German, Australian and New Zealand cyber authorities said Lockbit's extortion software, used to scramble victims' data until a ransom is paid, was the most broadly used by cybercriminals. "In 2022, LockBit was the most deployed ransomware variant across the world and continues to be prolific in 2023,"…

via Amazon Studios There’s plenty of folks out there who blast the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the death of cinema, but those same people should probably take a much closer look at Wattpad, with My Fault the latest feature-length adaptation of a story that originated on the online platform to find a massive audience in spite of a critical pasting. The eye-wateringly awful After franchise that doesn’t show any signs of ending despite consistently scathing reactions, Netflix’s hugely successful but resolutely…

CLIMATEWIRE | A major question has emerged as the world strives to reduce greenhouse gases: How much money should rich nations pay to poor ones for raising Earth's temperature? Scientists have found an answer. High carbon countries owe at least $192 trillion to low-emitting nations in compensation for their greenhouse gas pollution. That’s the conclusion of a new paper published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability by researchers Andrew Fanning and Jason Hickel. “It is a matter of climate justice that if we are…

Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Even though the company spends billions each year on big-name content backed by sizeable budgets and A-list stars, international originals have regularly tended to outperform their Hollywood counterparts on Netflix in terms of both quality and popularity, with Danish romantic drama A Beautiful Life merely the latest in a long line of examples. Despite being predictable and formulaic to a fault, the saccharine tale of a young fisherman with a singing voice capable of propelling him…

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via Gimme a Break As users clearly know based on nothing but the data, you don’t have to try too hard to find something vaguely erotic among the vast swathes of the Netflix content library, but the algorithm isn’t going to push them to the front of the homepage for obvious reasons. With that in mind, it’s all the more impressive that The Year I Started Masturbating has ended up as one of the platform’s biggest hits, because you’re hardly going to happen across it by accident. Per FlixPatrol, the Swedish sex…

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Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.SpaceX launched the ticket-holding crew, led by a retired NASA astronaut now working for the company that arranged the trip. Also on board: a US businessman who now owns a sports car racing team.The four should reach the space station in their capsule Monday morning; they'll spend just over a week there before returning home with a splashdown off the Florida coast.Sponsored by the…

‘In the end,” writes Simon Schama at the beginning of his extraordinary book on pandemics old and new, “all history is natural history.” Foreign Bodies is ostensibly an account of the bacteriologists and epidemiologists who studied the natural history of infectious diseases from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, developing vaccines and saving millions from smallpox, cholera and the plague. But as its subtitle suggests, it is also a reflection on the political and scientific conflicts of the Covid pandemic, and…