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A UK resident who ordered an iPhone 15 Pro Max directly from Apple received a fake smartphone. The customer fell victim to one of the most bizarre delivery scams after ordering the new iPhone directly from Apple’s official website. The affected customer took to Reddit (spotted by Android Authority) to share his experience which is concerning for people who are planning to order devices online directly from Apple. The victim also reported receiving all delivery confirmation emails from Apple and tracking details from…

Robert De Niro’s production company was found liable on Thursday by a jury for gender discrimination and retaliation, and ordered to pay $1.3m to the Hollywood star’s former assistant.The 80-year-old actor and director was not found personally liable by the jury in New York after a two-week trial.Graham Chase Robinson, 41, had accused De Niro of workplace abuse during the time she worked for him between 2008 until her resignation in 2019, claiming he subjected her to sexually inappropriate behavior.Graham Chase Robinson…

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday said the city government's transport department has been directed to ban app-based taxis "in accordance with the Supreme Court's orders".Officials, however, pointed out that only a detailed order will make it clear if the ban will come into effect from this week or during the implementation of the odd-even car rationing scheme. Transport department officials said the plan is to implement the ban only during the odd-even period.Industry insiders said they have not received…

Multiple wildfires broke out in western Riverside County on Friday afternoon, chewing through thousands of acres and prompting evacuations in parts of Moreno Valley and Beaumont.The largest so far is the Rabbit fire, which was reported at 3:26 p.m. in the community of Lakeview. The fire had scorched 2,815 acres with no containment as of 7:20 p.m., according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection/Riverside County Fire Department.Another blaze, dubbed the Reche fire, was first reported just before 1…

In yet another incident of delivery scam, a woman who recently placed an order for an Apple Watch 8 worth…

Internet service providers in Singapore also have been instructed to block a website linked to the Facebook page and group, according to IMDA. The industry regulator said the Singapore Police Force alerted it to the Facebook page, which was part of an online network facilitating the sharing of child sexual exploitation content. It led to the discovery of the Facebook group, which contained similar posts with hyperlinks leading viewers to a website carrying such content.Also: The best parental control apps to keep your…

I found that the reality of drone delivery is still far from ideal, and people may be turned away by the steep learning curve. But at the same time, it was an exciting experience—the prospect of routine drone delivery feels more realistic than it’s ever been. Meituan currently operates more than a hundred drones from five delivery hubs (or launchpads) in the city. Together, they completed over 100,000 orders in 2022. While the platform itself can deliver basically anything, from dinner to medicine to fresh flowers to…

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears.The penalty of 1.2 billion euros is the biggest since the EU's strict data privacy regime took effect five years ago, surpassing Amazon's 746 million euro fine in 2021 for data protection violations. Meta, which had previously warned that services for its users in Europe could be cut off, vowed…

It’s finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) confirmed today that Meta has been fined €1.2 billion (close to $1.3BN) — which looks to be a record sum for a penalty under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). (The prior record goes to Amazon which was stung for $887M for misusing customers data for ad targeting…

Nearly three dozen deputies have been ordered to come in for questioning, show their tattoos and give up the names of any other deputies similarly sporting ink connecting them to two of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s most notorious deputy gangs.The demand came Friday in a letter sent by county Inspector General Max Huntsman to 35 deputies suspected of being members of either the Executioners, which operates out of the Compton station, or the Banditos, which operates out of the East L.A. station.The names of…