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When not rocking stages around the world on his current ‘Long Live Montero Tour,’ rapper-singer Lil Nas X is keeping his money long thanks to a slew of brand endorsements announced over the last month.
Just days after taking to press to reveal he was the new face of Coach and YSL Beauty (as we reported here), news has now surfaced the GRAMMY winner has penned a deal with Riot Games to serve as the face of one of its most popular online games: League of Legends.
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The ethanol plants’ high emissions result in part from a history of industry-friendly federal regulation that has allowed almost all processors to sidestep the key environmental requirement of the 2007 law, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), according to academics who have studied ethanol pollution and regulatory documents examined by Reuters. The rule requires individual ethanol processors to demonstrate that their fuels result in lower carbon emissions than gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with writing the regulations to meet the goals set by Congress. For processors, that translates to an EPA requirement that the plants use certain emissions-control processes the agency assumes will result in lower-than-gasoline emissions. But the agency has exempted more than 95% of U.S. ethanol plants from the requirement through a grandfathering provision that excused plants built or under construction before the legislation passed. Today, these plants produce more than 80% of the nation’s ethanol, according to the EPA.
Some of the exempted plants produced much less pollution, including some owned by the same companies producing the highest emissions. The EPA said about a third meet the law’s environmental standard even though they are not required to do so. But as a group, the plants freed from regulation produced 40% more pollution per gallon of fuel capacity, on average, than the plants required to comply, the Reuters analysis found.
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AN accused rapist was allowed to work in a shop just 10 metres away from the 13-year-old girl he was charged with sexually abusing after mammoth court delays.
After a two year wait for justice, a distraught dad slammed ministers after his daughter’s trial was delayed for another nine months as chiefs couldn’t find a judge to hear it.
An accused rapist was allowed to work in a shop just 10 metres away from the 13-year-old girl (not depicted) he was charged with sexually abusing after mammoth court delays[/caption]
Bungling prosecutors mistakenly said they still weren’t ready to fight the case in court – two years after the incident took place during lockdown summer of 2020.
The dad of the victim – who has remained anonymous – took aim at Justice Secretary Dominic Raab for refusing to reply to his desperate pleas to help.
Funding cuts and a huge Covid backlog are causing cases in Britain’s to pile up – with a looming strike by barristers set to make it even worse.
Speaking to the BBC, he told how his daughter had to be pulled out of school and felt “totally devastated” after the attack – which took place in broad daylight after a trip to meet pals.
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Just two days before the trial was finally set to start, they were thrown into yet more upheaval with another delay.
The alleged rapist was even allowed to work in a shop near their house while he awaited his fate.
But the dad claimed the police and CPS “didn’t seem interested” and told him there was nothing they could do to stop him.
He only stopped working at the shop after the family contacted the chain’s head office to complain.
The doting dad said of the ordeal his daughter had to suffer: “It blew us apart. We are flattened.
“It’s just been a complete nightmare.
“We just cannot believe the attitude or the administration of this particular case.”
He claimed social services only once visited his daughter and then they “never saw hide nor hair of them again”.
The victim, who is now 15, now suffers from mood swings, doesn’t want to be hugged and has had to be home-schooled to deal with the ordeal.
She is still “very strong” and determined to see her case heard in court.
But he’d never recommend to anyone to push ahead after the tragic experience their family has gone through.
Last night a source close to the Justice Secretary said he’d been made aware of their case and was “appalled” they had had to wait so long to get justice.
They added: “We were making progress getting the number of outstanding cases down but tragically we’re now going to see more cases like this as the barristers’ full strike kicks in.”
Ministers today will dish out more cash to women female offenders whose crimes have been fuelled by addition and domestic violence issues.
Another £24million will be given to help stop re-offending and support local services work closer together.
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A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “Restoring the swift access to justice victims deserve is our absolute priority and we are spending almost half a billion pounds to reduce wait times, as well as boosting funding for victim support to £460 million over the next three years.
“Our actions had already brought the pandemic-induced backlog down by around 2,000 cases but the barristers’ strike action is undermining those efforts and will only see more victims face further delays.”
Zoom’s automatic update option can help users ensure that they have the latest, safest version of the video conferencing software, which has had multiple privacy and security issues over the years. A Mac security researcher, however, has reported vulnerabilities he found in the tool that attackers could have exploited to gain full control of a victim’s computer at this year’s DefCon. According to Wired, Patrick Wardle presented two vulnerabilities during the conference. He found the first one in the app’s signature check, which certifies the integrity of the update being installed and examines it to make sure that it’s a new version of Zoom. In other words, it’s in charge of blocking attackers from tricking the automatic update installer into downloading an older and more vulnerable version of the app.
Wardle discovered that attackers could bypass the signature check by naming their malware file a certain way. And once they’re in, they could get root access and control the victim’s Mac. The Verge says Wardle disclosed the bug to Zoom back in December 2021, but the fix it rolled out contained another bug. This second vulnerability could have given attackers a way to circumvent the safeguard Zoom set in place to make sure an update delivers the latest version of the app. Wardle reportedly found that it’s possible to trick a tool that facilitates Zoom’s update distribution into accepting an older version of the video conferencing software.
Zoom already fixed that flaw, as well, but Wardle found yet another vulnerability, which he has also presented at the conference. He discovered that there’s a point in time between the auto-installer’s verification of a software package and the actual installation process that allows an attacker to inject malicious code into the update. A downloaded package meant for installation can apparently retain its original read-write permissions allowing any user to modify it. That means even users without root access could swap its contents with malicious code and gain control of the target computer.
The company told The Verge that it’s now working on a patch for the new vulnerability Wardle has disclosed. As Wired notes, though, attackers need to have existing access to a user’s device to be able to exploit these flaws. Even if there’s no immediate danger for most people, Zoom advises users to “keep up to date with the latest version” of the app whenever one comes out.