A White House advisory board has recommended that Congress place new restrictions on the FBI’s access to a foreign surveillance tool to prevent the bureau from using it to spy on Americans’ electronic communications. That surveillance programauthorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)was intended to track foreign spies and potential terrorists
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Anonymity not guaranteed — Facebook to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts Court decides the posts can stay up, but the user’s identity must be revealed. Ashley Belanger – Jul 31, 2023 9:26 pm UTC EnlargeSOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket reader comments 61 with Starting today, Facebook users may feel a
Opening arguments are expected to be heard at a Wilmington, Delaware, courthouse on Monday in Dominion Voting Systems defamation trial against Fox News, which has been accused of telling vacuous lies about the 2020 presidential election and the tech companys role. At stake is some $1.6 billion, the amount Dominion demands in restitution, along with
Rocket agnostic — End of the line for Russia and Ukraines partnership in rocketry Northrop Grumman just can’t seem to settle on a rocket for its Cygnus supply ships. Stephen Clark – Jul 31, 2023 10:31 pm UTC Enlarge / Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket rolls out of its hangar at Wallops Island, Virginia. Its two
Tracey Ryniec and David Bartosiak, Stock Strategists at Zacks Investment Research, discuss oil giant BP (BP). It recently announced another 4,000 job cuts in addition to the 4,000 cuts it did in 2015. BP: http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/BP?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: http://stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZacksResearch Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZacksInvestmentResearch
Japan’s salary and benefits packages for expats remained the highest in Asia, a new report has found. The average expatriate package in Japan costs employers $370,183, according to “MyExpatriate Market Pay” survey by data company ECA International. That’s however 12% lower than last year, due to the weak Japanese yen, which has fallen 9% this
Apple proved resilient in its latest quarter as the number of paying subscribers for its array of digital services crossed 1bn users worldwide, helping to lift profits from a year ago even as total revenue declined. The world’s largest company by market value said on Thursday that total revenue fell 1 per cent to $81.8bn
Municipals sold off Thursday, following U.S. Treasury losses after more economic data suggested the U.S. economy is strong enough to potentially warrant more rate hikes in the fall. Equities ended down. Ahead of Friday’s jobs report, Wall Street is “watching a global bond market selloff get uglier as U.S. stocks waver ahead of massive earnings
Optimism (OP) is a Layer 2 scaling solution, which operates as a separate blockchain built on top of Ethereum. Despite having a smaller total value locked (TVL) than its rivals, Optimism may still have the potential to thrive in the increasingly competitive DeFi landscape. Being one of the pioneers in the DeF space, Optimism initially
Louisiana has tapped a consortium led by Plenary Americas as the private sector partner to negotiate a 50-year public-private partnership to replace the aging Calcasieu River bridge on Interstate 10. Calcasieu Bridge Partners is a joint venture of Plenary Americas US Holdings, Inc., which holds a 40% equity stake, and Sacyr Infrastructure USA LLC, and
yellow there — The 2023 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is the best sports car on sale today Transplanting the 911 GT3’s flat-six engine created a remarkable car. Bradley Iger – Jul 29, 2023 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / Everyone always said Porsche would never put its best flat-six engine in the Cayman or it would
Generative AI — A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work Want to really understand large language models? Heres a gentle primer. Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott – Jul 31, 2023 11:00 am UTC EnlargeAurich Lawson / Ars Technica. reader comments 30 with When ChatGPT was introduced last fall, it sent shockwaves
Visa V has been in consolidation for two years, since trading at an all-time high of $252.67 on July 27, 2021.This was warranted considering that V was trading 37x earnings, significantly higher than its typical range of 25x 30x earnings. Now that the fundamentals have caught up to its stock price, V may be poised
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin said the greater-than-expected easing in inflation in June may be an indication that the U.S. economy can have a “soft landing,” returning to price stability without a damaging recession. “There is still a plausible story that inflation normalizes in short order and the economy dodges additional trauma,”
Let’s get business out of the way before getting to the fun part: Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, is heavily involved in virtual worlds through its metaverse unit, Reality Labs. However, its investments have yet to pay off, with the metaverse company reporting collective losses of over $40 billion. Despite the
yellow there — The 2023 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is the best sports car on sale today Transplanting the 911 GT3’s flat-six engine created a remarkable car. Bradley Iger – Jul 29, 2023 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / Everyone always said Porsche would never put its best flat-six engine in the Cayman or it would
Generative AI — A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work Want to really understand large language models? Heres a gentle primer. Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott – Jul 31, 2023 11:00 am UTC EnlargeAurich Lawson / Ars Technica. reader comments 30 with When ChatGPT was introduced last fall, it sent shockwaves
Visa V has been in consolidation for two years, since trading at an all-time high of $252.67 on July 27, 2021.This was warranted considering that V was trading 37x earnings, significantly higher than its typical range of 25x 30x earnings. Now that the fundamentals have caught up to its stock price, V may be poised
yellow there — The 2023 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is the best sports car on sale today Transplanting the 911 GT3’s flat-six engine created a remarkable car. Bradley Iger – Jul 29, 2023 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / Everyone always said Porsche would never put its best flat-six engine in the Cayman or it would
Generative AI — A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work Want to really understand large language models? Heres a gentle primer. Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott – Jul 31, 2023 11:00 am UTC EnlargeAurich Lawson / Ars Technica. reader comments 30 with When ChatGPT was introduced last fall, it sent shockwaves