EU agrees on a new sanctions mechanism for hackers, with ability to target them anywhere in the world, freeze their assets in the bloc, and ban them from entry

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Filing: Facebook has set up a new company in Switzerland, Libra Networks, that will focus on payments, financing, identity management, blockchain, and more

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in a deal valued at $1.3B, or $35 per share, which represents a premium of 17.4% to Cray's last close

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

U.S. cancels $929M in California high speed rail funds after appeal rejected

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

How political parties in India are using cheap software to send up to 100,000 WhatsApp messages a day and get around the app's limit of five forwards per day

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

U.S. blacklists China's Huawei

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

Uber drivers are contractors, not employees, U.S. labor agency says

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

Google to show ads on homepage of mobile site, app

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Ex-Autonomy CFO sentenced in U.S. to 5 years prison over Hewlett-Packard fraud

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Sources: Facebook is facing an FTC consent agreement that would put Facebook's privacy practices under 20 years of oversight; announcement could be a month away

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Sources: India's antitrust watchdog has preliminarily found that Google abused the dominant position of Android and has ordered a full probe in April

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Internet backbone provider Zayo, which operates 209,000km of fiber network in US and EU, to be acquired for $8.2B by investment firms Digital Colony and EQT

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Interviews with 35+ Uber drivers in India reveal growing discontent with the platform, which has gradually removed its large incentives

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Hackers steal $41 million worth of bitcoin from Binance cryptocurrency exchange

  Reddit   ·   2 years ago

Samsung says it cannot confirm the shipping date for Galaxy Fold and will cancel pre-orders, unless told not to, if they do not ship by May 31

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Sources: SoftBank invested ~$20M in Mexican mobile payments startup Clip early this year, as part of a round that raised ~$100M, at a valuation of $350M-$400M

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Sources: Sequoia Capital China plans to cut as much as 20% of its 70-person investment staff, as the country's tech growth slows

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

Alphabet tells US House panel it spends hundreds of millions annually on content review, has manually reviewed 1M+ suspected terrorist videos on YouTube in Q1

  Techmeme   ·   2 years ago

China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Supreme Court seeks Trump administration views on Google-Oracle copyright feud

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago