France: public workers may strike during Olympics, "our warnings must be heard. We have been saying the same thing over for months and nobody cares." (www.reuters.com)
US lawmakers grill Microsoft president over China ties, hacks (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant's security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal emails by hacking the firm....
OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI....
Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (www.reuters.com)
Britain's National Crime Agency Cyber Division, with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seized control of websites used by Lockbit the gang and U.S. and British authorities said. The agencies also took the extraordinary step of using Lockbit's own website to release internal data about the...
Lawmakers want US to probe four Chinese firms involved in Ford battery plant (www.reuters.com)
The chairs of two U.S. House committees asked the Biden administration to investigate four Chinese companies they say are involved in Ford Motor's (F.N), opens new tab planned Michigan battery plant, according to a letter....
Spain: Zara reported record profits and raised shareholder payouts, "they can't make excuses to the workers and need to discuss more benefits" (www.reuters.com)
Sweden: IF Metall, with $921 million strike fund, may initiate sympathy strikes at Tesla licence plate company, or Tesla internal staff in administrative, HR, and finance roles (www.reuters.com)
Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years (www.reuters.com)
Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years::Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Friday said that artificial general intelligence could - by some definitions - arrive in as little as five years.
Tik-Tok Lite (www.reuters.com)
Wait, so now people are going to be monetarily rewarded for using tiktok?...
FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump (www.reuters.com)
Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google (www.reuters.com)
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
High Court orders temporary suspension of Telegram's services in Spain (www.reuters.com)
Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google (www.reuters.com)
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads (www.reuters.com)
July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.>...
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" (www.reuters.com)
Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....
Chinese armed vessels patrol waters around disputed islands, angering Japan (www.reuters.com)
Japan lodged a protest against Beijing on Friday after four armed Chinese coastguard vessels entered waters that Tokyo considers its territory....
Chinese fighter jets approached Dutch ship 'unsafely', Netherlands says (www.reuters.com)
Chinese air force jets circled a Dutch frigate and approached a Dutch helicopter in the East China Sea in a way that "caused a potentially unsafe situation," the Netherlands' Defense Ministry said on Saturday....
EU sanctions 19 Russians -including judges, prosecutors and members of the judiciary- for human rights violations after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny (www.reuters.com)
European Union foreign ministers decided on Monday to impose sanctions on Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service and on 19 Russians for human rights violations after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a prison in February....
Poland to limit movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow's involvement in hybrid war against the EU (www.reuters.com)
Poland will introduce restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow's involvement in what it deems a hybrid war against the European Union, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday....
Slovak PM Fico shot and wounded, Slovak media report (www.reuters.com)
Gunmen kidnap more than 100 in attack on villages in northwest Nigeria (www.reuters.com)
Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Cross posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13453724...
Japan resumes funding to embattled Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA (www.reuters.com)
Japan on Tuesday said it will lift its suspension of funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) as the relief body works to regain trust after an allegation by Israel that some of its staff were involved in Oct. 7 attacks on Israel....
White House dismisses Russia's charge of Ukraine's involvement in last week's attack in Moscow as "nonsense", says US passed written warning of Moscow attack to Russia (www.reuters.com)
Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10480714...
Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant (www.reuters.com)
Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant::undefined