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Freedom is bittersweet for Palestinians released from Israeli jails
Freedom is bittersweet for Palestinians released from Israeli jails
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."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in annexing Canada was a very real plan aimed at controlling the country’s vast mineral resources. Trudeau was caught on a hot mic giving his assessment of Trump’s treat to takeover America’s northern neighbor. “I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st stat
The rising actor succumbed to flu complications, following Barbie Hsu's tragic death
Julia Fox attended a MAC event in New York wearing just a trench coat undone at the neck to reveal a very realistic naked breastplate that freed the nipple.
Yahoo Singapore is featuring a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that's making waves online.
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.
The ambitious high-speed rail project has been bogged by financial issues since it was first announced in 2013.
"I started laughing during my ultrasound, and they found another baby. 🙃"
DT meltdown in 3-2-1.
Former Singapore transport minister S Iswaran will serve the remainder of his 12-month jail sentence in home detention, the nation’s prison service said.
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
Tom Cruise may have been the talk of Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party, but his antics didn’t go down well with Mel B, who was also in attendance. The Hollywood actor, 62, delighted attendees when he recreated his famous over-the-top moves from Tropic Thunder, where he played the outrageous movie producer Les Grossman. The bash in April also saw Beckham and Mel B reunite with their fellow girlband members Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Melanie C.
Documents obtained by Business Insider disclose multiple incidents where US Navy destroyers used "non-kinetic" capabilities to defeat Houthi drones.
Man United boss refuses to be drawn on the forward’s departure
Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal risks British and American planes being shot down by China, a former commander of the Diego Garcia air base has warned.
The original actor turned it down for an iconic '90s flick.