Posts by Liam Redmond
Ukraine special forces take out Russian platoon, weapons caches: video
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) eliminated a Russian platoon and weapons storage facilities along the frontlines, intense new video shows. Footage of the skirmish, uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday, shows an SSO drone and armored vehicle battalion corner and take out Russian soldiers fighting in an industrial complex in the Donetsk region. One of the…
Read MoreApple launches ‘age assurance’ tech as US states mull social media laws
APPLE on Thursday (Feb 27) said it will introduce a way for parents to share the age of a child with app developers without revealing sensitive information such as birthdays or government identification numbers. The move comes as a number of US state and federal lawmakers consider age-verification laws for social media and other apps. …
Read MoreMeta in talks to raise US$35 billion for data-centre financing led by Apollo
APOLLO Global Management is in talks to lead a roughly US$35 billion financing package for Meta Platforms to help develop data centres in the US, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The alternative asset manager has discussed providing a major part of the financing, said the sources, who asked not to be identified…
Read MoreInmate escapes NYC hospital 24 hours after larceny bust: cops
A inmate escaped from a Brooklyn hospital and was still on the loose Thursday — just one day after he was busted on petit larceny and other charges, cops said. Gilberto Sanchez, 50, was receiving treatment at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Downtown Brooklyn around 2 p.m. Thursday when he ran off, police said. Sanchez,…
Read MoreDell gives strong outlook with AI server backlog rising
DELL Technologies gave a full-year profit outlook that topped estimates and said it had booked large deals for artificial intelligence (AI) servers, stoking optimism the company is poised for long-term growth during the AI boom. Earnings, excluding some items, will be about US$9.30 a share on sales of US$101 billion to US$105 billion in the…
Read MoreOil climbs more than 2% after Trump cancels Chevron’s Venezuela licence
OIL prices rose more than 2 per cent on Thursday (Feb 27) as supply concerns resurfaced after US President Donald Trump revoked a licence granted to US oil major Chevron to operate in Venezuela. Investors were still keeping an eye on signs of a potential peace deal in Ukraine, which could result in higher Russian…
Read MoreEurope: Carmakers drive shares lower after Trump’s tariff threats on EU
EUROPEAN shares retreated from record highs on Thursday (Feb 27), with automakers leading declines as investors evaluated the impact of US President Donald Trump’s potential tariffs on the European Union. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed down 0.5 per cent, after touching a record high on Wednesday. An index of European autos and component makers…
Read MoreUS: Stocks fall as Nvidia results hit AI shares
WALL Street stocks tumbled on Thursday (Feb 27), extending a rough period as disappointment with Nvidia earnings and fresh tariff rhetoric from Donald Trump pressured the market. While Nvidia reported impressive profits, shares finished down 8.5 per cent, with investors seemingly wanting more from the artificial intelligence company. “Investors have gotten used to having Nvidia…
Read MoreBilly Horschel saves golf fans from alligator at Cognizant Classic
Chubbs would approve. Billy Horschel, the world’s No. 20 player, took matters into his own hand by chasing an invading alligator back into the water in a wild scene at the Cognizant Classic on Thursday. Horschel — who ironically is a Gator after attending the University of Florida — poked the invading animal with his…
Read MoreWould-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had accomplice, data shows, as investigators say FBI suppressing info
BETHEL PARK, Pa. — It’s been almost nine months since a seemingly mild-mannered 20-year-old attempted to alter the course of history by trying to assassinate then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Butler. Sources told The Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left…
Read MoreNYU doctor’s widower wants recipe of meal she ate at Disney before dying of an allergic reaction: lawsuit
The family of a New York doctor who died from an allergy attack at a Disney World restaurant is demanding to see the recipe of the food that killed her — but the theme park operators are fighting the request because it would expose “confidential” information. Dr Kanokporn Tangsuan’s grieving husband, Jeffrey Piccolo, hit the…
Read MoreCatherine Herridge shows why Americans STILL need to fear media censorship from the left
Former CBS investigative reporter Catherine Herridge has gone public with pics showing just how egregious her bosses’ attempted seizure of her files on Hunter Biden’s crimes and COVID-19’s origins was. Stack upon stack of documents. Four large boxes of files and notebooks and other records. All emphasizing her status as the paradigmatic example of Biden-era…
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