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South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president detained over martial law
South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president detained over martial law
Europe's financial sector should start preparing now for quantum computers to be able to break some forms of encryption widely used to protect sensitive data, a Europol-led body set up to address the issue said on Friday. "For the financial industry, the advent of quantum computers poses a risk to customer confidentiality and peer communications, authentication processes, and trust in digital signatures," the group said in a call to action. "Quantum computers capable of posing such threats are expected to be available within the next 10 to 15 years, though this timeline could accelerate."
Operatives working for Elon Musk have gained unprecedented access to a swath of U.S. government departments — including agencies responsible for managing data on millions of federal employees and a system that handles $6 trillion in payments to Americans. During the first three weeks of Trump's second administration, Musk’s group of representatives — a presidential advisory board known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — has taken control of top federal departments and datasets, despite questions about their security clearances, their cybersecurity practices, and the legality of Musk's activities. Whether a feat or a coup (which depends entirely on your point of view), a small group of mostly young, private-sector employees from Musk's businesses and associates — many with no prior government experience — can now view and, in some cases, control the federal government’s most sensitive data held on millions of Americans and the nation's closest allies.
Despite all the buzz last week that DeepSeek would herald in an era of lower AI budgets, there is zero sign that Big Tech is slowing down. Amazon is the latest tech giant to announce a massive AI spending plan, with well over $100 billion in predicted capital expenditures for 2025. The "vast majority" of that $100 billion will go toward AI capabilities for its cloud division AWS, CEO Andy Jassy said during Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday.
Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling back diversity initiatives. "In 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve representation," Fiona Cicconi, Alphabet's chief people officer, said in the memo on Wednesday, a copy which was reviewed by Reuters. "...but in the future we will no longer have aspirational goals."
The UK’s armed forces have seen 90,000 cyber attacks in the last two years, according to the Ministry of Defence.
The rising actor succumbed to flu complications, following Barbie Hsu's tragic death
"I understand now how Hitler rose to power. I feel like I'm screaming, and nobody is listening."
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A former four-star Coast Guard admiral was forced to leave behind most of her belongings after the Trump administration gave her just three hours to vacate her home on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Linda Fagan, an ex-Coast Guard commandant who was also the first female leader of a military branch, was evicted from her home at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling by the Department of Homeland Security after she was fired by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day. A Homeland Security official confir
Thailand's prime minister, seeking to allay security concerns among Chinese tourists visiting Thailand, said she had "Chinese blood in her" and that she had personally looked into security protocols in place to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens. Security in Thailand has become a trending topic of conversation among Chinese nationals, by far the largest group of foreign tourists to Thailand, since a minor Chinese actor was rescued from a scam centre in Myanmar after being abducted in Thailand last month.
A pro-President Trump Arab American organization, which performed voter outreach on his behalf to the Arab American communities during his 2024 White House run, has changed its name after the commander in chief’s remarks about taking over Gaza. The group’s name was changed from “Arab Americans for Trump” to “Arab Americans for Peace” on Tuesday,…
Office manager Oliver White, 27, died by suicide the next day ‘as a direct result’ of the robbery in which he was tied up and put in headlock, jurors were previously told
Spurs boss criticised his side’s lack of “conviction” in heavy defeat
The original actor turned it down for an iconic '90s flick.
Documents obtained by Business Insider disclose multiple incidents where US Navy destroyers used "non-kinetic" capabilities to defeat Houthi drones.
China is opposed to U.S. "smearing and sabotage" of the Belt and Road Initiative in Panama through "pressure and coercion", its foreign ministry said on Friday, after the South American nation decided to exit the programme. At a regular press briefing, a ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, said China deeply regretted Panama's decision. "We hope that Panama will make the right decision based on the overall situation of bilateral relations and the long-term interests of the two peoples, and eliminate external interference," he added.
Cheney undermined Musk’s knowledge of the U.S. by calling out his 22-year-long citizenship
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Kanye West lashed out at critics of his wife Bianca Censori’s naked appearance at the Grammy Awards in a post on X. “You don’t know my mama b---h,” he wrote in response to unnamed critics, who apparently asked him “how would your mother feel” after the stunt. West’s mother, Donda, died in 2007 after complications from a plastic surgery procedure.