The majority of the world's top finance officials have supported a major revision to international taxation. This includes a global 15% corporate minimum levy to discourage big companies from using low-rate tax havens.At a meeting in Venice on Saturday,...
Biden's administration and its allies in the West officially blamed China Monday for the large hack of Microsoft Exchange email software. They also accused Beijing of cooperating with criminal hackers to launch ransomware attacks and other illegal cyber operations.Although not accompanied...
After graduating from highschool in rural Washington, William Edward Mann joined the Navy. He was a guitarist and learned the ukulele in Hawaii.Since Dec. 7, 1941 when Japanese planes bombarded Pearl Harbor, they have been believed to be dead. A...
Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens.The "NeuralHash"...
Barcelona saw a major wireless technology trade show open its doors on Monday. The event featured a reduced attendance and increased safety and health measures. These changes reflect the reality of industry conventions during the pandemic.Mobile World Congress was...
Square Inc., a digital payments company, announced it had agreed to purchase Afterpay, which offers merchants a "buy now and pay later" option. The all-stock deal is valued at around $29 billion.Square allows merchants to accept credit card transactions...
Census Bureau statisticians and experts from outside are trying to solve a mystery.According to agency documents, residents did not answer a variety of questions about their sex, race and Hispanic heritage, family relationships, age, or a count of how...
According to testimony Wednesday from a senior executive at Microsoft, federal law enforcement agencies secretly search the data of Microsoft customers many times per year.Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate vice-president for customer security, and trust, stated to members of the...
President Joe Biden signed Friday's executive order, which targeted anticompetitive practices within tech, health care, and other areas of the economy. He stated that it would strengthen America's ideal of "true capitalism depends upon fair and open competition."Biden stated...
According to the Justice Department, Russian hackers were responsible for hacking into email accounts of prominent federal prosecutors offices in the country.According to the department, 80% of Microsoft email accounts belonging to employees at four U.S. Attorney offices in...