By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The incoming head of the U.N. migration agency said on Thursday that she has talked to companies like Microsoft to see how they can build partnerships to manage migration. A record number of people — more than 100 million — are forcibly displaced around the world and the Geneva-based…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Thursday it planned to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) including a potential ban on deep fakes and realistic-looking but false content, amid concerns the technology could be misused. The move comes on the heels of a meeting of top AI executives earlier this week when they raised the “risk of…
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday disqualified himself from hearing Walt Disney Co’s <DIS.N> civil suit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other state officials, citing a small financial interest in the company by a relative. Disney sued DeSantis in late April, asking a court to overturn state efforts to control the Disney World…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two more members of the far-right Oath Keepers militant group were given multi-year prison sentences on Thursday for seditious conspiracy and other crimes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Roberto Minuta to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate is debating a bill brokered by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that lifts the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling while imposing spending caps and cuts on Biden’s plan to boost funding for the IRS to audit wealthy Americans, among other things. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives…
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden plans to select former North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a source familiar with the matter. Biden’s formal announcement is expected later this month, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the news. If appointed, Cohen…
By Rodrigo Campos and Jorgelina do Rosario NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -A bill backed by debt justice campaigners and civil society groups advocating on behalf of economically distressed countries could alter past and future sovereign debt restructurings covered by New York state law – and Wall Street is watching. With a week left in this year’s…
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Airbnb Inc on Thursday filed a lawsuit against New York City over a new law it called a “de facto ban” against short-term rentals set to go into effect in July, which the company says will limit the number of people who can host rentals in the city….
By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -In a bid to safeguard its dwindling hard currency reserves, Argentina’s central bank issued a new regulation on Thursday to require provinces with foreign currency debt to obtain their own financing for 60% of capital repayments. Argentina has 23 local governments known as provinces. The new regulation aims to…
