WASHINGTON :Hackers are hijacking U.S. radio transmission equipment to broadcast bogus emergency messages and obscene language, the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.
In a public notice, the FCC said a “recent string of cyber…

WASHINGTON :Hackers are hijacking U.S. radio transmission equipment to broadcast bogus emergency messages and obscene language, the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.
In a public notice, the FCC said a “recent string of cyber…

BENGALURU :Most major global stock indexes should trade higher by the end of 2026 but will struggle to repeat this year’s surprisingly strong performance, according to a Reuters poll of equity strategists, with over half expecting a correction in…

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s possible plan to grant crypto companies relief from regulation to sell “tokenised” stocks risks harming investors, a group of stock exchanges said in a letter to the U.S. regulator this week.
Several crypto…

PARIS :S&P Global downgraded its rating of Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin on Wednesday, citing an increase in higher-risk assets in its reserves and “persistent gaps in disclosure”.
Tether said it “strongly disagrees with the…

Grindr’s two largest shareholders said on Wednesday that they had withdrawn their proposed $3.46 billion offer to take the dating app private, shortly after the company ended talks over financing concerns.
Ray Zage and James Lu, who together own…

LONDON :Trafigura lawyers said Prateek Gupta’s allegations that the group concocted a secret scheme to swap expensive nickel for low-value metals were full of inconsistencies, as the Indian businessman gave evidence in a long-running fraud case…

BRUSSELS :The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a non-binding resolution which calls for a default minimum age of 16 to access social media and AI chatbots to ensure “age-appropriate online engagement”.
Regulated under the block’s Digital…

TelevisaUnivision said on Wednesday it signed a multi-year distribution deal with YouTube TV, restoring the Spanish-language media company’s networks on the pay-TV service after a nearly two-month blackout.
The channels went dark on one of the…

WASHINGTON :NASA’s Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges – what one scientist called “mini-lightning” – often associated with whirlwinds called dust devils…

Its latest role? Secretly transporting drugs into an Ohio prison.
The book was one of three items whose pages 30-year-old Austin Siebert, of Maumee southwest of Toledo, has been convicted of spraying with narcotics and then shipping to Grafton…