News Around the Web

News Around the Web

Interesting headlines and stories making it across "a series of tubes."

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Man who landed chief railway engineer job using fake CV is sentenced to 15 years

An elaborate lie gets derailed
In brief: A South African man who pulled off one of the biggest qualification-fraud cases in recent memory has finally been sentenced to 15 years behind bars. Daniel Mthimkhulu's con job allowed him to climb the ranks at the state-owned Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), eventually becoming their chief engineer while earning a cool $156,000 per year salary - not bad at all for a person whose highest educational attainment was high school.
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Two European men charged with making multiple swatting calls and bomb threats in the US

Victims included members of the House and Senate
What just happened? Just because someone doesn't live in the US doesn't mean they are safe from the consequences of swatting people in the States. Two men in Europe have discovered this fact after being charged over a series of swatting attacks that targeted high-profile individuals, including US government officials and members of Congress.
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Intel faces shareholder class-action lawsuit for allegedly concealing foundry business problems

Intel execs are accused of making "materially false and misleading" statements
What just happened? Things are going from bad to worse for Intel. In addition to the nightmare that is the Raptor Lake CPU crisis and the backlash over eliminating 15,000 jobs, the company is now being sued by shareholders over accusations it fraudulently concealed problems in its foundry business.
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Laptop fire on American Airlines flight leads to emergency evacuation, injuries

A passenger captured the chaotic scenes
What just happened? In an incident that brings back memories of the exploding Galaxy Note 7 saga, an electronic device caught fire inside a jet last week. The culprit on this occasion was a laptop, and thankfully the plane was still on the tarmac waiting to leave when its cabin filled with smoke and had to be evacuated.
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