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“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
ASHLEY MADISON
• A few months back, hackers who stole massive user information from the dating site for married people threatened to release it unless their demands were met, and apparently Ashley Madison decided not to play and now about 10GB worth of information with personal details of more than a million users, has found itself on the dark side of the web. The released info contains over 15,000 government or military email addresses(seriously?!) At least password were not breached, so there’s that glass half full. Their slogan should now be “Life is short. Have an affair Just Not On Our Site” someby get Mike Epps wife on the line. [BBC]
GERMANY BACKS GREECE PACKAGE
• Germany’s Parliament voting 454-115 has approved the third bailout package in five years for Greece, like a check cashers, so Greece can get loans in as little as 24 hours and pay its lenders (*Dave Chappelle voice* they calling me). Greece’s first installment will be $95 billion ( 86 billion) and terms of the deal will require them to make further spending cuts, tax increase and implement big reforms to their economy. [NYTIMES]
CHELSEA MANNING
• Private Chelsea Manning pka Bradley Manning, the army private who was convicted in 2013 of leaking top secret military info to Wikileaks, undergoing gender treatments in military prison subsequently after and is now serving time, was found guilty of possessing prison contraband that included the Vanity Fair issue with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover. She has been given 21 days recreational restrictions and her twitter account made mention that this conviction will impact parole/clemency hearing forever. [WASHINGTON POST]
RILEY CURRY & ANDY MURRAY
• Riley Curry waves to her adoring legion on fans in the audience as her dad Stephen Curry chatted with Jimmy Kimmel talking about his golf game on Martha Vineyardr with President Obama driving the golf cart. New No. 2 World tennis player Andy Murray served up surprised fans at a Graeters ice-cream shop while in Cincinnati for a tennis tournament.
BLOOMINGDALES
• Would you trade in $17,000 items purchased ($10K diamond earrings, 5k watch, + an LV bag) to get in return $100 gift card just to stay loyalty member? That’s the dilemna a Bloomingdale’s customer is facing after a computer glitch awarded his account $25,000 and now Bloomingdales confirming the error “needs him to return the goods and if he doesn’t will be banned from the loyalty program.” What would you do? [VOGUE UK]
JARED FOGLE
• Well this is quite the fall from grace, the man who credited his weightloss to Subway and then peddling their offerings, was behind closed doors a child porn peddler, is set to plead guilty today on possession of child pornography. When news broke about investigators raiding his house for child pornography videos, Subway only suspended their relationship ? and now that he’s about to cop a plea, they “no longer have a relationship with Jared and no further comment.”
LOOK OF THE DAY
Gabrielle Union
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