Sri Lanka Is Put On Virtual Lockdown As Fuel Supplies Are Halted
Citizens were put on a virtual lockdown amid crippling sovereign debt crisis that’s left the nation with no fresh fuel supplies. .
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Crypto Hackers Steal $ 100 Million With Horizon Bridge Attack
Computer code displayed on screens arranged in Danbury, UK, on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. In the spring, hackers managed to insert malicious code into a software product from an IT provider called SolarWinds Corp., whose client list includes 300,000 institutions. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg .
China’s Tech Giants Lost Their Swagger And May Never Get It Back
Fear and paranoia now cow a once-proud $ 1 trillion internet industry. Even if Beijing relents, it is a shadow of its former self. .
Adani, Richest Asian, Pledges $ 7.7 Billion for Social Causes
The donation will be managed by the Adani Foundation for bolstering health care. .
Russian Nobel-Prize Editor Auctions Medal to Aid Ukrainians
Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, was awarded the Nobel together with journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines last year for their “courageous fight for freedom of expression.” He donated his approximately $ 500,000 prize money to charity, and suspended publication of the newspaper in March after Russia passed legislation restricting reporting on the war, … Read more
AI’s Hold Over Humans Is Starting to Get Stronger
(Bloomberg Opinion) – It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness. .