365 jilibet Allianz Partners has appointed Michael Buttstedt as Chief Financial Officer and Board MemberTORONTO (AP) — The Utah Hockey Club said players were forced to walk to their game against the Maple Leafs after their bus got stuck in Toronto traffic Sunday night. The team posted a video on social media of team members walking to Scotiabank Arena, with player Maveric Lamoureux saying the bus was “not moving at all.” Several city streets had been closed during the day for the annual Santa Claus parade. The Maple Leafs earned their fourth consecutive win by defeating Utah 3-2. The viral incident prompted Ontario Premier Doug Ford to call the congestion “embarrassing” and “unacceptable,” highlighting his government’s plan to address the city’s gridlock through bike lane legislation. It wasn’t the first time a Toronto visitor had to ditch their vehicle to make it to an event on time. In June, former One Direction band member Niall Horan had to walk through traffic to get to his concert at Scotiabank Arena. AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl

IPHONE and Android users have been urged to ditch texting and use WhatsApp instead in a warning from the FBI. Chinese cyberattacks are targeting Americans through messages and calls that aren't encrypted, officials said. The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the best way to prevent hackers from seizing their messages is to use encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal. Encrypting involves technology that scrambles a message and requires a key to unscramble it. “Our suggestion, what we have told folks internally, is not new here: Encryption is your friend, whether it’s on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communication," said CISA's executive assistant director for cybersecurity Jeff Greene. "Even if the adversary is able to intercept the data, if it is encrypted, it will make it impossible." READ MORE TECH WARNINGS He said people should be “using a cell phone that automatically receives timely operating system updates, responsibly managed encryption and phishing resistant [multi-factor authentication] for email, social media and collaboration tool accounts.” The massive cyberattack, which is called Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, has exposed private communications between Americans to foreign hackers. China hacked tech giants like AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies to spy on customers, officials told NBC News . "China firmly opposes and combats all kinds of cyber attacks," a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy said to NBC News. Most read in News Tech A senior FBI official confirmed the agency started investigating the questionable activity in the spring of this year. Greene said it's "impossible" to predict when the issue will be fully resolved. Signal and WhatsApp automatically use end-to-end encryption in both calls and messages. Google Messages and iMessage also encrypt calls and texts. This means that messaging from Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is typically safe. However, the issue pops up when iPhone users text Android users and vice versa. Here's what you need to know... WhatsApp was created in 2009 by computer programmers Brian Acton and Jan Koum – former employees of Yahoo It’s one of the most popular messaging services in the world Koum came up with the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up” After a number of tweaks the app was released with a messaging component in June 2009, with 250,000 active users It was originally free but switched to a paid service to avoid growing too fast. Then in 2016, it became free again for all users Facebook bought WhatsApp Inc in February 2014 for $19.3 billion / £14.64 billion The app is particularly popular because all messages are encrypted during transit, shutting out snoopers As of 2024, WhatsApp has over 2.78 billion monthly users globally A Senate Commerce committee is set to hold a hearing about Salt Typhoon on December 11. The subcommittee is expected to go over security threats to communications networks and "review best practice," Reuters reported. The warning to use encrypted messages comes after officials warned Chrome and Safari users to avoid certain websites while shopping on Black Friday. The FBI said shoppers should avoid websites that don't start with the letters "https." Read More on The US Sun Officials said people should also be wary of buying from sellers that only appear to be authorized dealers. Plus, they recommended making purchases with a credit card over gift cards.

I grew up getting motion sick in cars and am pretty sure I passed that predilection down to my children. I have vivid memories of my youngest vomiting on a laptop. I winched to a platform between the front seats so both children could watch videos while we were on a lengthy road trip. While technology has improved, and now we're watching videos and reading emails, texts, and social media on our handheld smartphones, the nausea has not receded. That's because nothing has changed physiologically. Scientists explain that motion sickness can occur when what you're watching does not match the motion your body feels. It's our vestibular system (the inner ear), and when that motion-sensing biology disconnects from the data coming in through our eyes, some of us get very sick. 🙋🏻‍♂️ this is the kind of life-altering feature I now think should get its own billboard in Times Square. This is why I can't work in a moving car. The stops, starts, turns, and sharp curves all register as motion in my ear while I try to stare at an unmoving laptop or iPhone screen. At least when we road trip for the holidays, I'm usually the one driving, so I don't have to worry about how I'll navigate working and not getting car sick. My 26-year-old, who was coming with us to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving, was lamenting how they would not be able to get work done while we were on the road. "I'll get sick," they reminded me. I started to concur until I remembered a little discussed update to iOS 18 (and iPadOS 18): Vehicle Motion Cues. Released without fanfare or even a mention that I can recall at WWDC 2024 last June, this is the kind of life-altering feature I now think should get its own billboard in Times Square. While hidden under Accessibility features, Vehicle Motion Cues is really for anyone who might suffer from motion sickness in moving vehicles. Turning on the feature (you can put it on or set it to start automatically when the phone detects you're in a moving vehicle). Get the best Black Friday deals direct to your inbox, plus news, reviews, and more. Sign up to be the first to know about unmissable Black Friday deals on top tech, plus get all your favorite TechRadar content. When on, Vehicle Motion Cues adds eight tiny black dots around the edge of the display. Those dots move subtly with the car's motion while the underlying display image stays fixed. This can help counter the discontinuity of the unmoving display and the car motion picked up by your inner ear. It's impossible to screengrab the dots. They disappear from the final screenshot, which leads me to believe that Apple 's doing something special here to separate the cues from the on-screen activity underneath them. I've asked Apple for comment and will update this with its response. While eight almost imperceptibly moving dots seem like a too-simple solution to a complex problem, the science here is solid. A 2024 ScienceDirect report , "Motion sickness countermeasures for autonomous driving: Trends and future directions," notes that "one of the main factors behind [motion sickness], as accepted by the literature, is the visual-vestibular incongruence caused by the diminished view of the vehicle's surrounding environment when the passengers engage in non-driving tasks (or simply choose not to look outside). Providing passengers with Visual Cues that anticipate the car's future motion seems to be a reliable strategy to prevent MS ." While I added the boldface, it's clear that most studies on this issue agree that visual cues are one of the strongest car sickness countermeasures available. And my real-world experience concurs. In the runup to our 8-hour drive, I reminded my offspring of the feature, showed them how to find it (they were unimpressed by the seemingly motionless dots – but we were not yet in a car, of course), and asked if they might try it. They indicated they might, which was encouraging. Throughout the long ride, which was full of white-knuckle driving through torrential downpours, I forgot about the iOS 18 feature. Hours later, as I stepped out of the car, relieved to be at my final destination and, yes, feeling a bit ill myself, I remembered the Vehicle Motion Cues and asked my youngest if they had tried it out. "Oh yes, I did. I read and replied to emails and felt fine. I think it worked." There you have it. No motion sickness, no nausea, and no throwing up in my car. If you have a long road trip planned and are a passenger or have passengers, especially children, on iPads, you might as well set up Vehicle Motion Cues before they slip into the car seat. Happy Holidays. I tried Visual Intelligence The Apple Intelligence launch is a mess My parents' iPhone 14 Pro Max phones are not getting Apple IntelligenceAfter eight years as secretary of state and a disappointing third place in the Republican primary for governor, Jay Ashcroft says he’s finished with elective office. Ashcroft is the only statewide official elected in 2016 who still holds the same post that voters bestowed. In that time there have been two governors, two lieutenant governors, three state treasurers and three attorneys general. “I don’t have any intention to run for office again,” Ashcroft said in an interview with The Independent. “I somewhat jokingly, but also truthfully, say I’ve done my time. I think I should be paroled after eight years.” Before he leaves office Jan. 13, Ashcroft has one more public function to perform. On Jan. 8, he will call the Missouri House of Representatives to order and preside while the body elects temporary officers. His personal plans for the future, Ashcroft said, are not settled. Katie Ashcroft, his wife, will be chief of staff to incoming Lt. Gov. David Wasinger, so the family will remain in Jefferson City. “Hopefully I will find something else that I will be able to make a difference and increase opportunity for other people to live their life to the fullest,” Ashcroft said. “I’ve had serious discussions but nothing concrete.” Ashcroft’s entry card into Missouri politics was his last name. He’s the son of John Ashcroft, who was state auditor, attorney general, governor, U.S. Senator and U.S. attorney general. Unlike his father, who was 29 when he filed for political office the first time, Jay Ashcroft did not run for the first time until 2014, at age 41, in a losing bid for a state Senate seat. Trained in engineering and law, Ashcroft at an early age didn’t want to run for office. “When I was a little kid, I made the decision that I wasn’t going to go into politics,” he said in an interview with The Independent after announcing his candidacy for governor. “I said, ‘I’m never going to go into politics. I’m never going to be an attorney. I’m going to have a real job.’ Famous last words.” The most visible role of the secretary of state is overseeing Missouri elections. But the office also registers businesses; regulates the sale of investments; manages the State Archive and the State Library; and keeps state administrative rules organized and published. Ashcroft hasn’t hesitated to put an ideological stamp on the work of his office. But he said he’s tried to use the authority allowed in law, not assume he can do things because he favors the action. “As a public official, I need to live within the constraints of what I’m authorized to do by the Constitution and the statute, not what I can get away with,” he said. “I wanted to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say, I’m still ugly, but at least I did the right thing.” The courts haven’t always agreed with Ashcroft’s view of his authority. A federal judge in August rejected Ashcroft’s attempt to regulate investing when it blocked enforcement of rules that would have required brokers to obtain consent to include a “social objective” or other “nonfinancial objective” into their investment advice. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough decided the rule intruded on federal securities regulations and blocked enforcement. Ashcroft did not appeal the decision but insisted he felt he was working within his authority. “We didn’t say you couldn’t invest in that or you had to invest in that,” Ashcroft said. “What we said was there has to be disclosure, and that you as a company to protect yourself from someone coming back five years later and saying, ‘hey, they never told me this.’” Libraries around the state grumbled, but did not challenge, a condition Ashcroft added to the rules for receiving state aid distributed by his office. The rules require written policies on what materials are “age-appropriate,” to keep non-appropriate materials and displays out of areas designated for minors and post whether events and presentations are suitable for some or all age groups. Parents must give permission for their children to borrow any material from the library, either in person by monitoring selections or by a blanket approval agreement tied to issuing the child a library card. The rule also allows parents to challenge the age designation of any item in the library. “We didn’t stop them from having anything,” Ashcroft said. “We just said, ‘look, if you’re gonna have it, you need to make sure that you’re responsive to the parents of your locality for how you provision those to children.’” The rules could be reversed by a future secretary. Ashcroft said he doesn’t believe the authority could be used to require libraries to give minors full access to all materials without parental notification. “I don’t think that the secretary would have the authority to say that a minor’s interest in what they read trumps the parents interest,” Ashcroft said. For the past two general elections, voters in Missouri have been required to present Missouri- or federally issued identification that includes their birthdate, photo and an expiration date. A Cole County judge recently upheld the law, a decision being appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court. Ashcroft has advocated for the requirement since his 2016 campaign. If the high court upholds the trial court ruling, it would be a final victory for a long-sought Republican initiative. Despite arguments that hundreds of thousands of Missourians would be prevented from voting because they lack the proper credentials, Ashcroft said the law has been a success. “People can whine and say whatever they want, but the facts are it worked just fine,” he said. Republicans have dominated the General Assembly for two decades, leading Missourians who support liberal policies to use the initiative process to pass Medicaid expansion and abortion rights and force a referendum on a right to work law. The secretary of state’s office receives proposed ballot measures and determines if they are ready for circulation. The office writes the ballot language voters see and checks signatures to decide whether petitioners have met the requirements for being on the ballot. On several occasions, the courts ruled Ashcroft had not performed those duties properly. A judge in 2018 rewrote Ashcroft’s ballot language for a referendum on right to work, and last year the Western District Court of Appeals declared his ballot language for an abortion initiative was “replete with politically partisan language.” Ashcroft got the same result when backers of the proposal, which was passed as Amendment 3 this year, challenged his fair ballot language. In that case, the judge determined Ashcroft’s description was improper because it “sows voter confusion about the effects of the measure.” And during an earlier attempt to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban, the courts ruled Ashcroft improperly decided the legislation was immune to a referendum effort because one provision had taken effect through an emergency clause. Ashcroft isn’t the only secretary of state to have ballot language revised by the courts. “What I strived to do was, I strived to follow the law,” Ashcroft said. He’s worked to streamline the signature-checking process for initiatives. By scanning all the pages instead of making physical copies, local election authorities can begin earlier and share the workload. Ashcroft’s replacement, state Sen. Denny Hoskins, wants to eliminate ballot counting by machine and replace it with hand counting. There is a role for hand-counting to double-check results, which is done in post-election audits, but Ashcroft did not endorse it as the primary count. And he doesn’t support efforts to move municipal elections like school board races from April to November. It would multiply the ballots each election authority must prepare because school district and municipal boundaries don’t always align with legislative district lines, he said. “What seems like a great idea on paper and works in 70 of the counties doesn’t work in all of them,” Ashcroft said. “And you’re going to create a big problem if you don’t take into account what they’re living with.” In every statewide election contested by John Aschcroft, Democrats won at least one office. Since Jay Ashcroft filed for office for the first time in 2014, Democrats have won a statewide office only once, in 2018. “The state is changing,” Ashcroft said. “I think there are a lot of people that 40 years ago were Democrats that are now Republicans.” He hasn’t, however, taken for granted that voters will continue that trend. Every year he has been in office, Ashcroft has visited every county at least once. “One, it was an act of service to the people of the state,” he said. “It was a reminder that I might have a title, but it was my responsibility to act for them. “Secondly, I think it sent the right message to them. I wanted the people of the state to know that I cared about their situation and I cared about what they were going through, because I hoped that would make them more likely to reach out to our office or to tell me so we could do something about it.” The difference between today and when his father was in office is that voters now associate local Democrats with policies pursued by the Democratic Party leadership in Washington. There are no more Democrats who oppose abortion and support expanding Second Amendment rights in the General Assembly, he noted. In 1976, the year his father was elected attorney general, voters put Democratic candidate Joe Teasdale in the governor’s office. “I’ve got a picture from when I was four or five years old, in front of the (Jefferson City) News-Tribune, where I was handing him a flower in commemoration of him being pro-life,” he said. His father’s legacy from those years has been an important asset, Ashcroft said. “There are times when it was extremely beneficial because of my name that I had because of him, and it was a good name, and a good name is to be treasured because of what he had done,” Ashcroft said. And I’m not sure it still stands for integrity after some of the campaign ads this past year, but I was thankful to have a good name.” The lessons his father taught him have guided his public life, Ashcroft said. “I’m thankful to have a father that taught me about public service,” he said. “I’m thankful that I had a father that did what he could to teach me to act with integrity, to tell the truth.”

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