2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (895+ words) Sept 1 (Reuters) – Data centers have requested roughly as much electricity across the middle swath of the United States as it takes to power every home in the country, but much of that demand may be an illusion. In an attempt…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (858+ words) By Diana Novak Jones and Jonathan Stempel Aug 26 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms agreed to make major changes to Facebook and Instagram and pay up to $18 billion to resolve claims by most U.S. states that it designed those platforms to addict children…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (722+ words) BENGALURU, Aug 21 (Reuters) – India has directed Google to shut down hundreds of accounts on its Firebase web development platform after finding a pattern of criminals misusing the service to impersonate major banks and defraud people, according to government notices and…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (513+ words) WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of former U.S. communications regulators on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to abandon an unusual early review of broadcast licenses held by Disney’s eight company-owned ABC television stations, calling the move a threat…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (485+ words) By Renju Jose and Nikita Maria Jino SYDNEY, July 8 (Reuters) – Australia’s biggest telecoms company Telstra said on Wednesday it was urgently investigating the cause of a nationwide outage that cut phone services for thousands of customers, disrupted wireless payments and…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1012+ words) (Refiles to add word “with” in paragraph 24 and adds apostrophe to Merriam-Webster’s in paragraph 29) NEW DELHI, July 3 (Reuters) – The world’s biggest internet domain seller, GoDaddy, has warned that India’s crackdown on fake websites impersonating famous brands will make the internet…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (164+ words) July 3 (Reuters) – India has issued notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal over concerns ​that their username features ‌could facilitate impersonation and other forms of misuse, a government source said on Friday, escalating the country’s scrutiny ‌of ​user-anonymity tools on…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (297+ words) July 2 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday it weakened a network of internet-connected devices being used to conceal and route malicious online traffic, acting against ​the NetNut residential proxy operator and the Popa ‌botnet. Google took action in partnership with…...

2+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (435+ words) June 30 (Reuters) – TikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a teenager who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, a spokesperson for the plaintiff’s law firm said Tuesday. The settlement was reached in principle, but ​the details have…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (309+ words) WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it is reviewing a $3 billion annual internet subsidy program for schools and libraries ​amid concerns about excessive screen time for children, ‌adding that it could reform the scheme or…...