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Customer fumes after being charged £32 for scrambled egg on single slice of toast in London café
A DISAPPOINTED customer felt let down when she was charged £32 for a SINGLE slice of toast and scrambled eggs.
The “tasteless truffles” and basic portion size left this woman fuming after visiting a fancy London restaurant.
No amount of shaved truffles could make up for the fact that this dish was £32[/caption]
However the French toast went down a treat[/caption]
Speaking to her followers on TikTok, @Boujiefoodie93 shared her shocking experience.
She said in the clip: “This is the most expensive scrambled egg on toast I have ever had.
“No amount of shaved truffles can make up for the fact that this toast is £32 each.
“The toast itself was good but we could barely taste any of the truffle.”
The content creator also opted for the French toast – which garnered more praise than the eggs.
Served with a generous helping of cream and compote, the sweet and savoury breakfast was a hit.
Another “extremely delicious” item on the menu proved to be an apple Fanno croissant which was immaculately presented.
“Overall I feel the sweet pastries are worth their price but not their scrambled egg toast,” the Boujie Foodie concluded.
The TikToker and her friend ended up forking out £180 to pay the full bill, including drinks.
A set three-course lunch at the plush restaurant will set you back £54, while sides cost an extra £9.
But mains a la carte can cost up to £54 on their own, and one starter selection is priced at £32.
If you fancy some Beluga caviar, the large portion comes in at £495.
This comes as other people sample some of the most expensive eateries in London.
Horrified customers accused one bakery, dubbed Britain’s most expensive, of “daylight robbery”.
Cédric Grolet has been slammed by outraged visitors who were shocked to find cookies would set them back £25 after the menu prices were kept hidden.
And Dior has also been criticised for the price of their sweet treats – at £70 for a box of nine gingerbread biscuits
Elsewhere in the world, one holidaymaker was disgusted when his two tequilas, two beers, and six prawns came to a total of £360.
An apple Fanno croissant was also a hit[/caption]
The total bill came to £180 for two people, including drinks[/caption]
Financial Crime: ‘Fraud is fun’: Teen hacker charged with breaking into DraftKings accounts leading to theft of $600,000
Alleged Russian Hacker Charged in $200 Million Ransomware Spree
Ransomware groups typically hack into computer networks and deploy malicious software that encrypts computers and makes them unusable. The groups demand extortion payments in cryptocurrency and threaten to leak stolen data online if the ransom is not paid.
Matveev was allegedly a member of the Lockbit, Babuk and Hive ransomware gangs. Those groups are “ranked among the most active and destructive cybercriminal threats in the world,” Philip Sellinger, the US attorney for the district of New Jersey, wrote in an indictment. Matveev, along with other members of the ransomware gangs, attacked as many as 2,800 victims in the US and around the world, Sellinger wrote. The alleged victims include the Metropolitan Police Department in the District of Columbia, which was attacked with ransomware in 2021. The hackers proceeded to publish dozens of stolen personnel files. The groups also targeted churches and nonprofits, the Department of Justice said.
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A third former Apple employee has been charged with stealing self-driving car tech
For many years, rumors have been flying around that Apple has been working on a self-driving car, or at least an electric vehicle with some autonomous functionality. Now, a third former employee has been accused of stealing some of that technology for a Chinese self-driving car company.
A federal court in the Northern District of California has unsealed charges against Weibao Wang, a former Apple software engineer. Wang started working at the company in 2016 as part of a team that developed hardware and software for autonomous systems — technology that could conceivably wind up in self-driving cars.
According to the indictment, in November 2017, Wang accepted a job with a US subsidiary of a Chinese company that was developing self-driving cars but waited more than four months to tell Apple that he was quitting. After Wang left Apple in April 2018, the company found that he “accessed large amounts of sensitive proprietary and confidential information” in the lead up to his departure, the Department of Justice said.
“Large quantities of data taken from Apple” were found during a law enforcement search of Wang’s Mountain View residence that June. Wang told agents that he wasn’t planning to travel, but he flew back to China that night, according to the indictment.
Wang has been charged with six counts of stealing or attempting to steal trade secrets. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a fine of $250,000 for each count. However, that depends on officials being able to extradite Wang, who remains in China, as CNBC reports.
This marks the third instance of a former Apple employee being accused of stealing autonomous trade secrets for Chinese entities. Xiaolang Zhang, who worked at Apple at the same time as Wang, pleaded guilty last year to stealing technology from Apple’s car division. Zhang was apprehended at San Jose International Airport in 2018 while trying to board a flight to China.
In 2019, another former employee was arrested before they could flee to China. Jizhong Chen allegedly stole self-driving car tech for a Chinese company. Chen pleaded not guilty and the case is proceeding in federal court.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/doj-charges-a-third-former-apple-employee-with-stealing-self-driving-car-tech-180824584.html?src=rss
Another Former Apple Employee Charged With Stealing Car Secrets for China
Wang was on the Annotation Team during his time at Apple, working on algorithms to accelerate the process of annotating real-world objects. Because of his role, he was granted “broad access” to databases that included information for the project. The information that he had access to was limited to just a few thousand of Apple’s more than 135,000 full time employees.
Wang signed confidentiality and Intellectual Property Agreements before being granted access to Apple’s databases, plus he attended secrecy training that covered the consequences of stealing data. Nevertheless, in 2016, he downloaded Apple’s “entire autonomy source code,” and stole additional autonomous systems and hardware information shortly before resigning from his position at Apple in 2018.
When he resigned, Wang did not tell Apple where he planned to go, but it turned out he had accepted a position at the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese company developing autonomous driving technology. Apple in May 2018 reviewed data access logs and found that Wang accessed sensitive details right before he left, which is when the company involved the Department of Justice.
In June, the DoJ searched Wang’s residence, at which point he purchased a one-way plane ticket from San Francisco, California to Guangzhou, China. After he made it to China, the extent of the theft was uncovered. There is a warrant for Wang’s arrest, and if extradited and convicted, he will face up to 60 years in prison.
Wang is one of three Apple employees accused of attempting to steal Apple Car information for China. Last year, former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang pled guilty to theft of trade secrets as part of a plea bargain. Zhang also attempted to flee the country, but he was caught. A third accused employee, Jizhong Chen, has pled not guilty.
This article, “Another Former Apple Employee Charged With Stealing Car Secrets for China” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Florida EVs May Be Charged ‘Inductively’ By One Mile of Highway
“A one-mile section of a four-lane highway near Orlando is to be electrified.”
ENRX has teamed up with the Central Florida Expressway Authority and the Aspire Engineering Research Center for an initiative to build a one-mile (1.6-kilometre) section on a four-lane highway near Orlando that will inductively charge the batteries of moving electric vehicles at 200 kW.
The principle is clear: the electric vehicle batteries are fitted with a special receiver pad and charged as they drive over the coils embedded in the road. In the process, the energy is transferred from these coils to the receiver pad mounted on the vehicle floor, which according to ENRX should provide “a safe, wireless power supply” even at motorway speeds. Advantages of the ‘Next Generation Electric Roadway system’ mentioned include interoperability, different output power levels for different vehicle and battery types, or user-defined distance between the ground and the vehicle. In addition, the system (on the infrastructure side) is supposed to be maintenance-free after installation…
“When you can charge while driving, range anxiety and frequent charging stops will be a thing of the past,” says ENRX CEO Bjørn Eldar Petersen… “Dynamic charging can reduce the need for large battery capacities, allowing cars to be equipped with lighter and more affordable battery packs.”
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader aduxorth for sharing the news.
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