Musk offered teen $5,000 to shut down his flight tracker bot on Twitter. A 19-year-old Jack Sweeney won a bit of internet fame when Protocol published a story about one of his Twitter bots. The college student maintains ElonJet, a tracker that tweets out when Elon Musk’s private jet takes off and lands. Last fall,…
About 300 cats and dogs abandoned during the evacuation from Afghanistan five months ago are now on their way to Vancouver aboard an Il-76 chartered by the charity Kabul Small Animal Rescue (KSAR). Five months after the end of evacuations from Kabul airport at the end of August, abandoned cats and dogs left Afghanistan on…
Pilots at Qatar Airways say the state-owned airline is under-counting their work hours and ignoring complaints of fatigue – a safety breach that hurts staff health and risks passenger lives. The testimony demonstrates how worker abuse extends even to the Gulf nation’s high-skill industries, as Qatar Airwaystries to minimise crew downtime. “I fell asleep during…