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World
Kyrgyzstan urges citizens to limit travel to Russia
(Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's foreign ministry has urged citizens of the Central Asian nation to put off unnecessary travel to Russia after a deadly shooting that was blamed on migrants from the region.
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Internet
The British royal family learns that if you don’t fill an information vacuum, someone else will
The episode offered the royal family – and everyone else – a lesson in the modern world of online media: If your silence leaves an information vacuum, others will rush to fill it. And the results may be messy.
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Cybersecurity
Report: Insecure passwords rampant among .gov emails
Password hygiene might be going downhill for people with .gov email addresses, according to a new identity exposure report released by cyber crime analytics company SpyCloud.
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World
Russia attacks Ukraine with 13 drones, Ukrainian air force chief says
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's air force chief said on Wednesday that Russia launched 13 Shahed drones at Ukraine overnight, 10 of which were downed in Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv regions.
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Video games
Crypto hit by nearly RM300mil hack of ‘Munchables’ game in one of year’s biggest exploits
The crypto sector suffered one of its biggest security incidents this year after a hacker swiped US$63mil (RM297mil) from a blockchain-based game.
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World
Thailand moves closer to legalising same-sex unions as parliament passes landmark bill
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday, a landmark step that moves one of Asia's most liberal countries closer to becoming its third territory to legalise same-sex unions.
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World
Climate change, AI in focus at Commonwealth's Oct meeting in Samoa
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Climate change and efforts to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence top the agenda for a Commonwealth meeting set for the small Pacific Islands nation of Samoa in October, the grouping's secretary general said.
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World
Racial tensions cost Germany Inc. skilled foreign labour
CHEMNITZ, Germany (Reuters) - Manager Joerg Engelmann says he has pulled out all the stops to attract skilled foreign workers to his chemical engineering company in Chemnitz, east Germany. But once they arrived, the racial slurs and exclusion they experienced in the town have driven some of them away.
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Technology
Sam Bankman-Fried faces decades in jail as prosecutors plug crypto loophole
In the waning days of 2022, a month after the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors filed eight charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the face of the bubble-like crypto industry. Four of them involved wire fraud.
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Cybersecurity
US SEC ramps up massive-hack probe with focus on tech, telecom companies
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is asking tech and telecom companies how they handled the sprawling 2020 SolarWinds cyberattack, and drawing fire from the cybersecurity industry and big business for what they call overreach.
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Robotics
Robots replicate reality: High-tech pitching machine mimics every pitcher
Technology has come a long way since the days of the Iron Mike.
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Internet
TikTok influencers face UK clampdown over financial promos
A top UK regulator warned social media influencers that they face as long as two years in prison if they don’t provide proper risk warnings when pitching consumers on financial products.
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World
Freighter pilot called for tugboat help before plowing into Baltimore bridge
BALTIMORE (Reuters) -The pilot of the cargo freighter that knocked down a highway bridge into Baltimore Harbor had radioed for tugboat help and reported a power loss minutes earlier, federal safety officials said on Wednesday, citing audio from the ship's "black box" data recorder.
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Smartphones
Police believe Australian rescued from drain was hiding, not looking for phone
Australian police on March 27 said a man who spent more than 30 hours stuck in a Brisbane drain was hiding from them, not trying to retrieve a lost mobile phone as he initially claimed.
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Social media
Social media forces British royal family to adapt
Britain’s royal family has been forced to radically change the way it communicates because of social media, after speculation ran riot about the health of Catherine, Princess of Wales.
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Social media
Lego head mugshots add to California’s debate on policing and privacy
A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media.
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Internet
WHO Europe: Almost one child in six is cyberbullied
Some 16% of children aged 11 to 15 were cyberbullied in 2022, up from 13% four years ago, a WHO Europe report covering 44 countries said on March 27.
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AI
UK stands to lose eight million jobs from AI, analysis warns
As many as eight million UK workers are at risk of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence with current government policy, the Institute for Public Policy Research warned.
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World
Indonesia's losing candidates urge court to disqualify president-elect
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia's losing presidential candidates laid out their court challenge on Wednesday to last month's election, accusing the state of interference and urging a poll re-run and disqualification of the winner, Prabowo Subianto.
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World
US artist Richard Serra, known for enormous steel sculptures, dead at 85
(Reuters) - American artist Richard Serra, whose enormous steel sculptures coated with a fine patina of rust decorated landscapes and dominated oversized galleries in the world's finest museums, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 85.