Italy’s watchdog said Meta had changed its practices since the investigation began. (Lionel BONAVENTURE) Italy’s competition authority on Wednesday fined global technology giant Meta 3.5 million euros for data breaches and errors in managing Instagram and Facebook accounts. The AGCM watchdog “found that Meta failed… to immediately notify users registered with Instagram via the internet […]

Five people who helped launder the proceeds of a £1.2 million computer scam have been jailed. The fraud targeted elderly and vulnerable people, forcing them to pay thousands of euros each to fix non-existent IT problems. Between May 2015 and November 2019, the gang transferred £1,289,837 to two brothers in India, who posed as representatives

BERLIN (Reuters) -Europe’s new Ariane 6 satellite launcher will perform a long-awaited inaugural flight on July 9, the head of the European Space Agency said at the Berlin Airshow on Wednesday. The delayed debut comes a year after its predecessor, Ariane 5, was retired, leaving Europe without an independent orbit for its satellites after setbacks

Amanda Knox returned to court in Italy on Wednesday for a defamation case related to her infamous prison sentence and later acquittal for the 2007 murder of her British roommate. The American was only twenty when she and her then Italian boyfriend were arrested for the brutal murder of 21-year-old fellow student Meredith Kercher in

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is phasing out the use of a military-run detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war, where rights groups alleged prisoner abuse, justice officials said on Wednesday. State lawyers told the Supreme Court that prisoners held at the Sde Teiman site, which opened after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern

DETROIT (FOX 2) – Wayne State University faculty and staff marched across campus to denounce the aggressive removal of students from a pro-Palestinian camp last week. “Hands off our students!” Those present sang on Tuesday. “Free, free Palestine!” Faculty and staff were joined by students, alumni and local officials – all of whom condemned WSU

Every year, nearly 800,000 tourists wander the alleys of Binibeca Vell, a small whitewashed village nicknamed “Spanish Mykonos” for its similarity to the famous Greek island that attracts huge crowds of visitors. For the 200 residents, that is “a lot”, says Oscar Monge, who heads a local residents’ association and would like the village to

Australia’s internet watchdog has dismissed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s social media platform X, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant said on Wednesday. Australia wanted to force X to remove images of a stabbing in a church in Sydney from the platform. X blocked the posts in Australia pending a legal challenge, before the Federal Court ordered

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has criticized China for boycotting the peace conference in Switzerland later this month. In a podcast interview with German regional public broadcaster NDR, Stoltenberg said it was regrettable that China had decided not to participate. Switzerland has invited around 160 countries to the event on June 15 and 16 to

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni travels to Albania to thank the country for its willingness to host thousands of asylum seekers and tour the sites of two migrant detention centers. In November, Meloni and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama signed a 5-year contract in which Albania agreed to host up to