Chris J D'Costa

Steve Harvey reveals he woke up owing the IRS $22,000,000 because his accountants spent SEVEN YEARS pocketing his tax checks and never filing a single return. The government told him he had to pay $650,000 a month, every month, for 4 years. Miss ONE payment, and you go to JAIL. He never would've known if his accountant hadn’t died. A woman cleaning out the office called his lawyer with a serious problem. STEVE HARVEY: “She had found on the floor all my tax forms for seven years signed and with the checks stapled to it.” “Well, they were cashing the checks, keeping the money and not turning in the tax forms.” Seven years of bank statements that looked like a man paying his taxes. “My lawyer called me, said, ‘Hey, man, we got a problem. You haven’t paid taxes in seven years.’” “He said, ‘Man, that’s tax evasion. You can go to prison.’” “I ended up owing 22 million. 22 million with the penalties.” When he told his wife, Marjorie, she cried for two straight days. “She says, ‘What you going to do?’ I said, ‘I’m going to go to work.’” And he did. “I took every comedy gig in this country, signed every contract. I went to work, man. I worked every single Friday, Saturday and Sunday.” “I never missed a payment.” He did that for four years. $650,000 a month, every month. In 2012, he sold 49% of his radio company and used the check to pay the government off to zero. “And that was the first time, man, I could breathe.” The thieves were his accountants. The $22,000,000 bill went to Steve Harvey. And the only one who got threatened with prison was the man who got robbed.

From HMRC's guidance on "what happens if you do not pay your tax bill" updated on this morning.

What Your Watch Says About You 1. Rolex: Bought it with his first bonus to stop the bullying. 2. Two-tone Datejust: Gullible enough to believe it when the AD said he'd move him up the list for a real watch. 3. Cartier: It was a gift from a girlfriend who won't let him attend bachelor parties. 4. Richard Mille: Still goes clubbing after 40, and wears it every day except when he's being deposed for fraud. 5. TAG Heuer: Got it for his 18th birthday and then never amounted to anything. 6. Patek Philippe: Judges you if you don't recognize it, and makes sure you notice. 7. F.P. Journe: Threatened to leave California until the board invented a new class of stock. 8. Tudor: Drives a Toyota but says, "it's basically a Lexus." 9. Audemars Piguet: Uses Instagram like a chick, and still tells Vegas stories. 10. Vacheron Constantin: Has two Rolexes at home, and no regard for your opinion about anything. 11. Hublot: Owns a chain of car washes but says he's in private equity. 12. Jaeger-LeCoultre: Thinks he's James Bond but is watching porn alone at 2 a.m. 13. Omega: His dentist lives a more interesting life. 14. IWC: Never gets promoted, and his wife cheats on him. 15. Panerai: The action-hero watch for guys who brag about cheating on their wives. 16. Breitling: Regional sales, medical devices. He flew on a Cessna once and still talks about it. 17. Apple Watch: Hits on girls by talking about Padel and his biomarkers. 18. Grand Seiko: Doesn't get invited to parties. 19. Whoop: Hasn't worn a watch since the Series A. 20. No watch: When he controls time, he decides what time it is. Or he's just poor. 21. Two watches at once: So he'll know what time to get out of the next FTX.

My 13 year old has a friend over and I told them to please quiet down because the baby is sleeping and he (friend) told me to shut up?? My kids all froze and my son looked at him like wtf?? And my husband who was on a call in his office was like, "Joe, I need to call you back." They're now on a walk discussing respect, kid was still smirking until my husband walked out and told him to get his shoes because they were going to go have a talk. Weird afternoon.

🚨🌍🇬🇧 Meanwhile in the UK “We’re saying to People - Be Ready” “Have 3 Litres of Water per Person per Day - it’s not just about the Weather - There are State backed Actors & Terrorists who wished to do our country harm” Incredible - UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting provides a list of items & reasons as to why Britain should be prepared. You all know it’s already planned & The Government are employed by the people planning it - it’s important you understand this.

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺 A major Google Cloud outage is disrupting banking, payments, deliveries, and dozens of online services across Britain and parts of Europe. Google reported elevated errors and intermittent network failures in its London-based cloud region, affecting more than 35 products. Revolut customers have experienced severe problems accessing their accounts, including card payments and transferring money, though the company says customer funds and data remain safe. HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Royal Mail, DPD, Rightmove, and Screwfix are among the other companies reporting service disruptions. Google's engineers are investigating the problem, with no immediate workaround or confirmed timeline for full recovery. Writer: Mhedi

🇫🇷 “Esta farmacia era toda mi vida. Soy madre de tres hijos. Todo está arrasado y quemado. Tenía medicinas para pacientes crónicos, y quemaron las neveras en las que las guardaba. Cuando esto empezó, llamé a la policía y me dijeron que no podían hacer nada”

Germany has passed its national law for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, launching January 2 as “d-you.” The government insists it’s voluntary. Platforms will be legally required to accept it, even where EU rules don’t demand it. The age for using online ID drops from 16 to 13. A ban on automatically sharing biometric photos between passport and ID card authorities has been scrapped. The pseudonym function EU law requires won’t be ready at launch. The SPD already wants the wallet mandatory for social media and has complained that VPNs make it too easy to get around. Every part that expands the system is ready to go. reclaimthenet.org/germany-ap…