The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union’s GDPR data protection regulations. The administrative fines imposed by the Irish watchdog consist of a fine of €485 million for its … Read more
The government is considering sending failed asylum seekers, including those arriving on small boats, to overseas ‘migrant hubs’, Sky News understands. A Home Office source has told political correspondent Amanda Akass that the government is in the “very early stages” of discussions around the idea, and is keen to learn about what Italy has been … Read more
Global M2 money supply is at an all-time high — so why isn’t Bitcoin surging? Is something broken, or is a delayed breakout coming? Markets on edge as the Fed meeting looms Markets are heading into the Federal Reserve’s Mar. 18-19 meeting with mounting uncertainty as economic conditions remain volatile. Stock markets have stumbled, inflation … Read more
California governor Gavin Newsom wants tech executives to know they can call him if they’re ever in a pinch. Yes, Politico is out with a weird new story that claims the political leader has been sending a “prepaid, inexpensive cell phone (commonly known as a burner, for those of you who haven’t seen ‘The Wire’ … Read more
Despite the heavy casualties it has suffered in the war between Russia and Ukraine, North Korea appears to have sent more troops to Russia as its soldiers re-entered frontline combat, South Korea’s spy agency said on Thursday. The National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s main spy agency, said it was still trying to assess the size … Read more
FTT, a token linked to the now-defunct FTX crypto exchange, briefly went past $2 after Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, broke his two-year silence on X. The disgraced former CEO, currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, sparked debate when he shared a ten-part thread on layoffs and employment issues. Ranting About Layoffs SBF’s tweets, … Read more
Credit: Screenshot via The Center Square Youtube President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk floated the idea of sending some the money that the Department of Government Efficiency saves directly back to taxpayers, but the checks aren’t in the mail yet. On Thursday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said the White House is … Read more
While previous administrations have considered removing the de minimis exemption or introducing reforms, Trump is the first to have actually done so. “This is the administration’s version of moving fast and breaking things,” says Ram Ben Tzion, cofounder and CEO of Publican, a digital shipment vetting platform, citing one of the core tenets of startup … Read more
The Trump administration is considering sending 24,000 assault rifles to Israel that had been held up at the State Department on the orders of Antony J. Blinken, the former secretary of state, a U.S. official said. Mr. Blinken had asked the State Department not to move forward with fulfilling Israel’s request, which comprises three tranches … Read more
The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a DeepSeek account using Google or Apple sign-on, for instance, it will receive some information from those companies. Advertisers also share information with DeepSeek, its policies say, and this can include “mobile identifiers for advertising, hashed … Read more