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BY  SHOSHANA WEISSMANN ,  MAUREEN FLATLEY, CHILD WELFARE EXPERT   entity theft. They can’t  access  credit and don’t check their credit reports, which gives bad actors more time to harm their victims before anyone notices something is amiss. While lawmakers are proposing and enacting social media age-verification laws, this will increase fraud risks by mandating that minors surrender their Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. A full 25 percent of minors will become victims of “identity fraud or theft” before they turn 18, according to Michael Bruemmer,  Experian ’s Vice President of Consumer Protection. That means that one out of every four minors (and their parents) will, at a minimum, be set up for long and stressful calls with credit bureaus and banks. At worst, these young people could find it difficult to establish and use credit once they become adults. More than half of child identity theft victims in an Experian survey reported...

  Ukrainian forces have launched a significant counteroffensive in Vovchansk, recapturing buildings along Haharina and Shevchenka Streets and aiming to encircle a large number of Russian troops. Report from Ukraine on 19/07/2024 Frontline report: Ukrainian military encircles main Russian strike force on Kharkiv front On 18 July, there are a lot of updates from the Kharkiv direction. The situation in Vovchansk remains highly dynamic, with both sides launching offensive actions in an effort to seize the initiative. Screenshot from the Reporting From Ukraine video Russian forces continue their efforts to advance southward to the other bank of the Vovcha River, and even cross it, for two main reasons. Firstly, they are attempting to rescue the remaining Russian troops who have been trapped in the aggregate plant for over a month, surviving only thanks to drone-supplied food and ammunition. Screenshot from the Reporting From Ukraine video Secondly, re-establishi...

  More than 200 developers at Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind hit franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, have unionized with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). 241 workers, including “artists, engineers, programmers, and designers,” have signed union authorization cards or “indicated that they wanted union representation via an online portal,” according to a CWA press release. Microsoft has recognized the union, the CWA says; the company has already recognized the unions formed by Activision QA workers and ZeniMax Studios QA workers. The CWA describe this as “the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio,” meaning that all eligible job titles will be represented by the CWA instead of just one type of worker, according to the CWA’s Catalina Brennan-Gatica. Until now, all the unions at Microsoft owned studios have only been formed by QA workers. The Bethesda workers will be members of CWA Local 2108 in Maryland and CWA Local 6215 in Texas. ...

 News of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is making headlines in China. We take a look at how the country is reacting, from Communist Party head Xi Jinping to online retailers. Watch here

   Run Windows XP on Your iPhone. You can now play retro games and run Windows XP on your iPhone thanks to the UTM SE emulator available on the App Store. This tool allows you to run virtual machines with different operating systems: Windows XP, old versions of Mac OS, and Linux. The emulator works with iOS, iPadOS and visionOS. Download it here

  The court cleared actor Alec Baldwin of all charges of murdering a Ukrainian woman on the set. We will remind you that in 2021, the actor accidentally shot cameraman Galina Hutchins from Ukraine, who was working on the set. Previously, pyrotechnician Hanna Gutierrez-Reed, who confused prop bullets with live ammunition, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison in this case. Baldwin was accused of careless handling of weapons and wanted to be given 18 months in prison, but in the end, the charges were dropped.

  US journalist Masha Gessen is convicted in absentia in Russia for criticizing the military. U.S. journalist and author Masha Gessen was convicted in absentia Monday by a Moscow court on charges of spreading false information about the military and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The Moscow-born Gessen, a staff writer for The New Yorker and a columnist for The New York Times who lives in the U.S., is a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and  an award-winning writer . Russian police put Gessen on a wanted list in December, and Russian media reported the case was based on statements they made about atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in an interview with a popular Russian online blogger. In the interview, which has been viewed more than 6.5 million times on YouTube since September 2022, Gessen and blogger Yury Dud discussed  atrocities  in the Ukrainian town of Bucha earlier that year. Ukrainian troops who retook Bucha from retreating R...

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Skin cryptocurrency wallets - for those who lose conventional ones. A US startup has started producing physical cryptocurrency wallets that are implanted under the skin, using a smartphone as the management interface.