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Hoax posts claiming that an elderly man with dementia named Martin Jones has gone missing with his dog have been shared on social media.  

The posts say: “My uncle Mr Martin Jones aged 79 drove out with our dog Baxter and he hasn’t returned. He doesn’t know where he’s going, he has dementia. There is a silver alert activated on him. Please help bump this post so we can get him home safely.” 

We have written about fake appeals for the whereabouts of “Martin Jones” before. The picture used in the posts, of a man wearing a dark jacket and cap holding a small dog, is taken from a post thanking a local volunteer for a community group in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

The post is likely to have originated in the US as it makes a reference to a “silver alert”—a…

MANCHESTER, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bjarne Melgaard has teamed up with UK outfit NFTU to host his Web 3 venture in Decentraland. Globally renowned artist Bjarne Melgaard is heading into the Metaverse hosting a Techno Rave (virtual art party) in Decentraland. It is a once in a lifetime chance to rave with the enigma himself, from anywhere in the world, the event will kick off at 12pm CET 20.01.22! The rave is a table kick to canapés and the pretentiousness of the art world. The innovative rave will celebrate and toast the release of Melgaard’s NFT project The Lightbulb Man, the culturally significant sculpture which stands in the National Gallery of Norway has received the web 3 treatment being digitized for the blockchain into a series of 1122 graphically striking images….

          LOS ANGELES – An Illinois man was found guilty today by a federal jury for running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet.

          Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, Illinois, was found guilty of three felonies: one count of conspiracy to commit unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and one count of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.

          According to evidence presented at his nine-day trial, Gatrel owned and operated two DDoS facilitation websites: DownThem.org and AmpNode.com. DownThem sold…

Described by U.S. authorities as the most prolific distributor of child pornography in the world when he was arrested in Ireland, Eric Eoin Marques was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Wednesday.

The convicted sex offender built and operated servers on the so-called dark web where anonymous users view see millions of illegal videos and images depicting the rape and torture of infants and toddlers, according to authorities.

The volume of content was so great that law enforcement said they had never seen so many before discovering Marques’ servers, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang told Marques in court that his activities equaled that of a drug kingpin.

“This crime was truly despicable,” Chuang said.

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