The penalty, imposed by Irish data regulators, brings European fines against Facebook’s parent company to more than $900 million since last year.
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U.S. Crypto Exchange Kraken Settles With Treasury Dept.
The crypto exchange, which had been under investigation for violating U.S. sanctions, agreed to pay $360,000 to settle the allegations.
BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy as FTX Fallout Spreads
BlockFi was entangled with FTX, and its stability was thrust into uncertainty after FTX collapsed.
Elon Musk Takes On Apple’s Power, Setting Up a Clash
In a series of tweets on Monday, Mr. Musk accused Apple of threatening to pull Twitter from its App Store and of trying to censor.
Nvidia AI plays Minecraft, wins machine learning conference award
Enlarge / MineDojo’s AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft. (credit: Nvidia) A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia’s generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia revealed on Monday. To train the MineDojo framework...
European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started shortly after the governing body voted to declare the Russian government a state sponsor of terrorism. European Parliament...
Apple iPhone factory workers clash with police in China
Enlarge / Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group’s Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, in 2010. (credit: Getty) Violent worker protests have erupted at the world’s largest iPhone factory in central China as authorities at the Foxconn plant struggle to contain a COVID-19 outbreak while maintaining production ahead of the peak holiday season. Workers at the...
(BPRW) 2022 Call for Code: Black Girls CODE Sustainability Challenge Announces Winners
(Black PR Wire) The fact that 400 million metric tons of plastic waste are produced every year indicates the world has a waste problem. On a mission to reduce the volume and demand for material that creates the biggest waste footprint, an innovative
Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.
Microsoft’s $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, which is undergoing reviews in 16 countries, has become a test for whether tech giants can buy companies amid a backlash.
FTX Says Assets ‘Missing’ or ‘Stolen’ as Bankruptcy Process Begins
A substantial amount of the company’s assets has disappeared, an FTX lawyer told a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.