Month: June 2021

Operation to recover cryptocurrency from Russia-based hacking group is first undertaken by new ransomware taskforce The US Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month, officials said Monday. The operation to …

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Videos uploaded by Apple-approved team falsely appeared to have been shared by Oregon woman herself, filing says Apple has paid a multi-million dollar settlement to an Oregon woman after iPhone repair technicians uploaded explicit images and videos to the internet from a phone that she sent in for repair. Legal filings, first reported on by …

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Voice assistant will no longer send audio recordings to firm’s servers, instead processing requests ‘on device’ Apple will no longer send Siri requests to its servers, the company has announced, in a move to substantially speed up the voice assistant’s operation and address privacy concerns. The new feature comes two years after the Guardian revealed …

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Tech giant will pay £189m after settlement found it unfairly favoured its own tools for buying and selling ads Google has been fined €220m (£189m) by French competition regulators for abusing its dominance in the online advertising market in a landmark settlement that could rebalance the relationship between tech giants and digital publishers. The settlement …

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Reforms force multinationals to pay tax in all countries they operate in, but Amazon could evade new rules The G7 group of wealthy nations signed a historic tax agreement to tackle tax abuses by multinationals and online technology companies on Saturday, agreeing to a minimum global corporate tax rate for the first time. Although broadly …

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Follow the announcements of Apple’s latest hardware and software updates, as the company kicks off its worldwide developers conference amid rumblings of discontent from its partners 5.24pm BST Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live blog of Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. We’ll be kicking off at 10am Pacific Time – that’s 6pm UK time, and …

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Amazon founder’s brother, Mark, and one other person will join Bezos onboard Blue Origin vessel on 20 July Jeff Bezos will no longer be the richest person on Earth on 20 July because the Amazon founder will be blasting off into space on the first crewed flight of his New Shepard rocket ship. Joining Bezos …

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Apps such as Hinge and Bumble will offer benefits to vaccinated users amid fears of low take-up Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage First came the idea of making Covid vaccinations mandatory to go to the pub, while Israel offered free pizza and beer with a shot. Now UK officials have hit …

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Several popular accounts on Twitter-like service are closed down, displaying message saying account ‘violates laws and rules’ China has stepped up its crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, blocking a slew of cryptocurrency-related accounts on the Twitter-like Weibo platform over the weekend. More actions are expected, including linking illegal crypto activities in China more directly …

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Exclusive: communique from ministers suggests deal only applies to ‘profit exceeding a 10% margin’, which could rule out Amazon Experts have raised concerns that Amazon may escape paying significantly more tax in some of its biggest markets unless world leaders close a large loophole in a historic global deal. Finance ministers in London from the …

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