‘Never touch another man’s balls’

We’ve all been there. It’s been a tough day at work, you hit the pub, order a beer and settle in for an evening of pool and questionable conversation.

You psych yourself up for a big break to get your game off to a flyer, but then imagine somebody moves your cue ball at the last moment.

Well, that’s exactly what happened to a short-tempered man in a mystery UK pub on Tuesday, and the CCTV of what happened has now taken the internet by storm.

Easy, tiger.

The clip, posted alongside the caption “Never touch another mans (sic) Balls” has been viewed over half a million times.

It shows two men can be seen leaning over a pool table to pick up their cues as half a dozen other patrons sit at tables around the room.

One of the men in a black Nike sweatshirt, stands at the head of the table as he prepares to take his shot.

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TikTok’s new ‘trusted tech partner’

An executive order TikTok has vowed to challenge called for the viral video app to be sold to an American company if it wanted to continue operating there due to data security fears and wider political conflict between the US and China.

According to “a person familiar with the matter” who spoke to The Wall Street Journal, the new partnership is not the same as a direct sale.

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The US is TikTok’s biggest potential market because the app is banned in India and doesn’t operate in China. Picture: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP

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Instead it’s understood Oracle will handle the cloud operations and data storage for TikTok.

Microsoft has announced it received word on Sunday from ByteDance that its offer was knocked back.

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Reason Facebook staffer turned down $87k

In a 6600 word memo obtained by Buzzfeed News, data scientist Sophie Zhang said she has “blood on her hands” from her time working at the tech giant, which she alleges has turned a blind eye to its platform being exploited as a political weapon.

Ms Zhang’s job at the company was on the “fake engagement team”, where she dealt with “bots influencing elections and the like” according to her LinkedIn profile.

“In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” wrote Ms Zhang in the leaked internal memo.

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Why Kim K is off Instagram

Ms Kardashian announced the boycott on Twitter.

– only to take steps after people are killed. Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy.    Please join me tomorrow when I will be “freezing” my Instagram and FB account to tell Facebook to #StopHateForProfit.— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) September 15, 2020

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The move is part of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, which previously convinced more than 1,000 brands to withhold advertising from Facebook and the Instagram platform it owns for the month of July to try and get the company to act.

The organisers met with founder and boss Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and reported being disappointed by the meeting and the pair’s seeming unwillingness to fix its platform.

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35,000 Aussies being spied on by China as part of ‘psychological war’

Researchers say the massive collection of information is being used as a “psychological warfare” tool to manipulate public opinion in Australia.

The database was published overnight after it was leaked to a US academic, and it shows 2.4 million people around the world have been targeted — including 35,000 Australians.

The data was collected by Chinese company Zhenhua Data which is understood to be used by China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security.

Natalie Imbruglia was included on the list. Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage

Zhenhua has the People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party as its main clients.

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‘Looks familiar’: Author says character is not Daniel Andrews after claims go viral

The children’s book, which shoppers spotted at Coles, is from the Inspector Bubblewraps DO’S and DON’TS series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.

Artist and photographer Alexia Sinclair shared a photo of the book last week saying “My heart goes out to @DanielAndrewsMP,” with a broken heart emoji.

“Now Coles have published a book about him titled ‘Inspector Bubblewrapper’s DOs and DON’Ts’.”

One of the authors, Griffiths responded, insisting the likeness was accidental.

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'This bloke setting a list of things we can and can't do looks a little familiar, no?' someone wrote in a Reddit post. Picture: Bignbadchris

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Controversy as Insta account sold for $116m

Warner paid a reported $US85 million ($A116 million) for IMGN Media, which operates several brands across social media, e-sports and entertainment.

Its most well-known property is the meme-sharing Instagram account Daquan, which has 15.5 million followers.

The profile picture for Daquan's Instagram.

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Daquan’s profile picture appears to be a stock image of a young black man being told off by his mother (a mask was recently added).

But when reports of the sale started hitting the internet, some people were a little miffed to see a picture of Barak Shragai, who along with Dor Mizrahi, runs IMGN media.

$85M off digital blackface. https://t.co/liF0TZEMHe— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 5, 2020

Meet Daquan. pic.twitter.com/uqGS9hqvsy— key. (@keywilliamss) September 3, 2020

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Melbourne residents react with shock and fury to lockdown extension

From midnight on Sunday next week, the 8pm curfew will be pushed back an hour to 9pm (it will still cease at 5am) and the allowable outdoor exercise period will be doubled to two hours.

There will also be the introduction of a “single person bubble”, which will allow one nominated visitor if a person is living alone or a single parent with all children under 18.

On social media people have reacted to the news, with some maintaining it’s necessary if unfortunate, while others are furious and want the lockdown lifted immediately (many of them expressing themselves in ways that can’t be reproduced on a news website).

Would rather stamp out this virus than prematurely open. Glad Dan Andrews + team are making these difficult and unpopular decisions - otherwise we'd be going back into lockdowns and all this time locked down would be for nothing. #COVID19Victoria #melbournelockdown— Sam Wright (@samywamy10) September 6, 2020

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Our lockdown obsessions revealed

As public health measures involving strict lockdowns were introduced in countries around the world in March, people took to Twitter to have their say on them.

Australia tweeted about panic buying more than any other country, especially about toilet paper and limits on alcohol purchases.

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We also had a lot to say about decisions being made to restrict the number of mourners at funerals while hair salons remained open.

Along with the Irish, Australians were quick to label fines for breaching ambiguous new rules as “revenue raising”.

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‘Mess’ not even Google can understand

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) previously announced it would take Google to court over location data it allegedly continued collecting even after people thought they’d told the company to stop.

Now unsealed court documents relating to a case in the US state of Arizona have shed new light on the location settings.

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Some of the documents show allegations by the Arizona government, set out in the suit’s table of contents, that the company knew its location settings were a “mess that mislead and deceives”.

Central to that allegation are emails between Google employees (referring to themselves as “Googlers”) who admit not even they can understand the settings.

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