Business
Elon Musk is progressing plans to slim down Twitter since he bought the 396 million-member platform for US$44 billion (£38 billion) on October 27. Musk's deal has taken Twitter private, dissolved the platform's board and ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Security
A 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.N. counterterrorism ...
Aug 7, 2020
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Internet
Turkey's highest court on Wednesday began considering an appeal by Wikipedia aiming to reverse the Turkish government's more than two-year ban on the online encyclopedia.
Sep 11, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
South Africa experienced unprecedented electricity shortages in 2023 as aging coal plants became increasingly prone to breakdowns. The country urgently needs to develop new electricity generation facilities and reduce reliance ...
Jan 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
South Africa's experience in piloting a new type of climate finance vehicle can inform debates about how to fund a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Dec 6, 2023
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Business
A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country's largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.
Dec 21, 2022
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Internet
Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not devolve into a "free-for-all hellscape," but experts warn that mass layoffs may deeply impair the social network's ability to curb misinformation.
Nov 6, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals Tuesday aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people's personal data and limit ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Business
The Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as legal tender, the president's office said Wednesday, becoming the second country in the world to do so after El Salvador.
Apr 27, 2022
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Security
As bombs and missiles tragically rain on Ukrainian cities, so do another kind of armament: cyber weapons. This new generation of weaponry replaces explosives with destructive software (malware) and missile launchers with ...
Mar 7, 2022
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