Ireland’s Data ProtectionCommission (DPC) has yet another ‘Big Tech’ GDPR probe to add to its pile: The regulator said yesterday it has opened two investigations into video sharing platform TikTok. The first covers how TikTok handles children’s data, and whether it complies...
Charles Johnson, a military veteran and pastor, has shed tears over the troop withdrawal in Afghanistan From the outside, it might seem odd that the voters of Sandy Hook, Kentucky, are so deeply distraught by the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan that some speak of the events with tears. The...
GENEVA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Tuesday, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary detention by government forces. The U.N.Commission of Inquiry...
For more than 40,000 years, Indigenous communities in Borneo have hunted and eaten bearded pigs—huge, nomadic animals that roam the island in Southeast Asia. These 100kg creatures are central to the livelihood and culture of some Bornean peoples—in fact, some hunters rarely talk of anything else....
Even though Vladimir Putin was first elected Russia’s president in 2000, he is currently serving his “zero” term – according to the law that “nullified” his three previous presidencies and the current one. The legislation, which lets him run for two six-year terms in 2024 and 2030, was symbolically...
For the second time in less than a week, Jennifer Lopez walked the red carpet with new boyfriend (and ex-fiancee) Ben Affleck on her arm. Lopez and Affleck masked up Monday for the Met Gala. Per the New York Post: Affleck, 49, was dressed conservatively in a tuxedo, apparently opting to not mirror...
Research by on-chain analytics provider, Glassnode has confirmed that those holding bitcoins that are more than a year old are extremely reluctant to sell them. The hardcore hodlers are the ones that buy up BTC when there are volatile downswings in price, often setting their bids when the asset is...
Top crypto strategist and trader Michaël van de Poppe is keeping a close watch on Cardano’s price action while predicting an incoming supply shock for Bitcoin. Van de Poppe tells his 404,100 Twitter followers that he sees Cardano slightly correcting against Bitcoin (ADA/BTC) in order to build...
WASHINGTON (AP) — HouseDemocrats unveiled a sweeping proposal for tax hikes on big corporations and the wealthy to fund PresidentJoe Biden’s $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, as Congress speeds ahead to shape the far-reaching package that touches almost all aspects of domestic life. The...