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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…

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…

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…

Grindr’s two largest shareholders said on Wednesday that they had withdrawn their proposed $3.46 billion offer to take the dating app private, shortly after the company ended talks over financing concerns.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

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…

Gurugram, INDIA :Tesla’s low running costs, including maintenance and fuel, can help Indian buyers to recoup about one-third of the Model Y’s $67,000 price tag over four to five years, the company’s India head said on Wednesday.

Tesla entered…

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…

SUPPORT FOR RETRENCHED WORKERS

In regard to retrenchment, the authorities have trodden carefully. Companies in Singapore have always had the right to release workers on grounds of reorganisation or redundancy. 

However, providing timely job…

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…

NEW YORK :The yen weakened against the dollar on Wednesday, after an initial boost from speculation about a possible Bank of Japan rate hike next month faded, while sterling advanced on a UK budget that offered a larger-than-expected fiscal…