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Trump signs order to rename Pentagon the Department of War
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/09/2025
» NEW YORK — President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War, calling the move a reversion to a time before America went “woke.”
Illegal sites took 71% of Europe’s betting, casino sales
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/08/2025
» LONDON — Illegal gambling operators captured 71% of Europe’s online betting and casino market last year, or €80.65 billion (US$93.8 billion), as regulators struggled to rein in crypto casinos, prediction markets and unlicensed sportsbooks during a booming year for sports.
Trump signs bill cracking down on deepfake revenge porn
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/05/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump signed a bill to force social media companies to remove non-consensual sharing of explicit sexual imagery online, calling it a "horribly wrong" situation.
Google AI Search Overview leaves website makers feeling betrayed
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/04/2025
» NEW YORK -- In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said.
X bypasses Brazil ban though software update
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/09/2024
» BRASILIA - Elon Musk’s X skirted a ban of the social media network in Brazil though an automatic update of its software, an association of Brazilian internet providers said Wednesday.
TikTok sued by US for allegedly breaking kids’ privacy law
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/08/2024
» WASHINGTON - TikTok was sued by the United States for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three months after the popular video application sued the government over a law that could ban it across the country.
From ATMs to flights, epic IT crash leaves trail of chaos
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/07/2024
» LONDON - In what will go down as the most spectacular information technology (IT) failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc crashed countless Microsoft Windows computer systems around the world on Friday.
Russian athletes headed to Paris have military links, support war
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/07/2024
» HAGUE - More than half of the Russian and Belarusian athletes cleared to compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 have links to military agencies or showed support for the war in Ukraine, according to a human rights group which is urging sponsors of the Games to intervene.
Israel raids Al Jazeera’s offices after banning broadcaster
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/05/2024
» Israeli officials seized Al Jazeera equipment on Sunday, hours after the nation’s cabinet approved a decision to shutter the Qatar-based TV news network’s operations in the Jewish state - an unprecedented step toward an international media outlet.
X testing 'adult content' groups for users
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/03/2024
» SAN FRANCISCO - X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material.