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A person uses a cell phone on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Los Angeles. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center reports that SIM-swapping complaints have increased more than 400% from 2018 to 2021. New federal regulations aimed at preventing port-out hijacking are under review, but it's not clear how far they will go in stopping the crime. When your own phone access is lost to a criminal, the very steps you once took to protect your accounts — such as two-factor authentication — can be used against you. (AP Photo/Paula Ulichney)

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What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too
By FATIMA HUSSEIN - Associated Press
Sat,07/13/24-11:01PM , 109 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn't make calls or texts.

That, though, turned out to be the least of my problems.
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FILE -FILE - A Delta Air Lines jetliner is shown at Denver International Airport in Denver, June 26, 2019. Delta Air Lines is changing its employee uniform policy following a turbulent ride through a social media storm started by a passenger's outrage over two flight attendants photographed wearing Palestinian pins. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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Delta Air Lines adopts new rules for flight attendant uniforms after Palestinian pin flap
Sat,07/13/24-11:22AM , 112 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines is changing its employee uniform policy following a turbulent ride through a social media storm started by an X user's outrage over two flight attendants who were photographed wearing Palestinian flag pins.
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In this photo provided by the Taiwan Presidential Office, the then President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen meets with Cheng Yen in Hualien county, eastern Taiwan, Sept. 21, 2022. In 1966, Cheng Yen, a Buddhist nun living in eastern Taiwan, asked local housewives to contribute 50 cents a month to fund her charity. That grassroots effort grew into Tzu Chi, a global organization that responds to disasters and builds schools and hospitals around the world. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

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Who is the Buddhist nun who built a global charity from a tiny apartment in rural Taiwan?
By HUIZHONG WU AND DEEPA BHARATH - Associated Press
Fri,07/12/24-11:24PM , 117 Reads
HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The Buddhist teacher who founded what is now a global charity and religion with a $283 million operating budget grew up at a time when women could not be ordained as Buddhist nuns.
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Tzu Chi volunteers say goodbye to a Buddhist master before setting out on a volunteer mission at the Jing Si Abode in Hualien, Taiwan, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

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A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global
By HUIZHONG WU AND DEEPA BHARATH - Associated Press
Fri,07/12/24-11:06PM , 114 Reads
HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Taiwan in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region’s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center.
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