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Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules

For decades, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta barreled forward with few rules and limits. As their power, riches and reach grew, a groundswell of regulatory activity, lawmaking and legal cases sprang up against them in Europe, the United States, China, India, Canada, South Korea and Australia. Now that global tipping point for reining in

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Russian onslaught targets more Ukrainian towns and villages

Russian forces are pushing hard against more Ukrainian towns and villages in eastern and southeastern Ukraine as Moscow tries to press its current advantage in weapons and troops, Kyiv officials said Thursday. Despite Russia’s apparent offensive momentum on the ground, Ukraine said it has shot down 13 Russian warplanes this month, including three on Thursday,

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Maps: Where Ukraine Is Fighting to Hold Back Russian Onslaught

Ukraine is engaged in a desperate fight to hold back the Russian onslaught. Russian forces captured the longtime Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka before dawn on Saturday, Moscow’s first major battlefield gain since it took Bakhmut last May. But across the entire 600-mile long front, Ukraine is short on ammunition without renewed American military assistance, and

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Noticias de dinero

US Can Thwart the CBDC Onslaught

Signs around London remind individuals they are always being watched. Treasuries, exchequers, ministries of finance, central banks, currency boards, and other economic authorities worldwide are in a mad rush to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). According to the Atlantic Council, 130 countries (which account for 98 percent of the world’s economic output) are currently

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Entretenimiento

Onslaught of Swift deepfakes hit X

FOLLOWING the spread and surge of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images of Taylor Swift on X (formerly Twitter) on Jan 24, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform began clamping on the graphic content within three days. Initially, X’s safety team began “actively removing” all the images and by Jan 27, the platform began to negate attempts

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Nowhere to Hide in Gaza as Israeli Onslaught Continues

Israeli airstrikes flattened mosques over the heads of worshipers. At least two hospitals, and two centers run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society, have been hit. So have two schools run by the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees. Israel’s fighter jets and artillery have struck targets in Gaza frequently over the years as part

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