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Protesters rallying outside court in Vancouver, Canada, this week in support of embattled Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou turned out to be paid actors – who said they thought they were extras for a film or music video.

Each person in the group held a white or red-colored poster that carried messages such as “Free Ms Meng Equal Justice!” or “Bring Michael home, Trump stop bullying us.”

Meng was in court to fight off America's attempt to extradite her to the Land of the Free: last year US prosecutors charged the Huawei executive with alleged bank fraud, and accused her

US ISP Windstream says a video game update is to blame for an outage affecting its business VOIP service earlier this week.

In a notice to customers, seen by The Register , Windstream explained that mass downloads for the latest Call of Duty title throttled its network capacity on January 22. This flood of traffic meant some customers in the southern US were unable to use the service on Wednesday evening.

"The catalyst for this event is another patch release within the on-line gaming community, specifically a 'Call of Duty' release that took place this afternoon," customers were told by

It was only going to be one rogue member, then it wasn’t happening at all, and then the entire board of DNS overseer ICANN emerged from the organization’s headquarters into Los Angeles, blinking in the bright sun, to accept a 35,000-signature petition from those opposed the sale of the .org registry.

“We take this very seriously,” chairman of the board Maarten Botterman told those assembled, who numbered just over 20. “We are in discovery phase so we are not going to speculate on where it will go. We have asked for more information.”

All morning the protesters had been standing