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Poland’s Minister of Digital Affairs said on Wednesday he had asked the European Commission ​to impose a €250 million ($291.30 million) fine on Meta, accusing ‌the social media company of failing to adequately tackle fraudulent advertisements.. “Despite repeated reports from the relevant Polish authorities and teams responsible for cybersecurity, Meta (META.O), opens new tab ​still does not provide an effective and adequate response ​to fraudulent advertisements,” minister Krzysztof Gawkowski posted on X. In ⁠a letter to the European Commission that tests conducted by ​CERT Polska, the national cybersecurity incident response team, found 122 advertisements ​that were classified as fraudulent. “In…

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic will spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing capacity from Nscale’s data center campus in West Virginia, according to a person familiar with the matter. The agreement comes as Anthropic aggressively expands its computing infrastructure to meet growing demand for products such as its AI coding tool, Claude Code, while the company prepares for a major initial public offering (IPO). Nscale, a cloud infrastructure provider, will deploy Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips to support Anthropic’s computing requirements, the source said. The six-year agreement is expected to provide approximately 460 megawatts of power capacity. Anthropic has…

Meta Platforms (META.O) will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed those social media platforms to addict children. The settlements announced on ​Wednesday end a federal trial over allegations Meta’s products harmed children and the company misled the public about their safety. Four of the states — California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey — were expected to seek close to $200 billion in civil ‌penalties. While Meta will not undergo a fundamental overhaul, the accords represent…

Rescue teams using heavy machinery dug through mud and debris in Nepalese towns devastated by a flash flood two days ago, as hopes of finding survivors faded and officials worked to reduce the risk of further catastrophic flooding. The confirmed death toll in Nepal rose to 469 people early on Friday, with almost 1,000 more missing there and in neighbouring Tibet, near where a glacier collapse on Wednesday morning sent a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris cascading through Himalayan mountain river systems. The flood ripped through villages and valleys, destroying power stations, roads and bridges along a…

Norway’s King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved, extrovert father over more than three decades on the throne, died on Friday at the age of 89, the royal palace said, at a time of multiple crises for the Norwegian royal family. “King Harald passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital on Friday 28 August, 0635 (local time, 0435 GMT),” the royal palace said on its website. Harald, who was Europe’s oldest living ​monarch, was taken to hospital on August 17. The palace said he was being treated for a bacterial infection in his blood. In…

President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a memo for universities that seeks to restrict issuance of certain internship work authorizations for international students as the federal government warned that colleges not complying with the regulations may lose certification to enroll foreign students. The federal memo dated August 24 said the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which is part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, has “observed a rise in Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorizations that appear to violate regulatory requirements which permit CPT only where the training is an integral part of an established curriculum.” “Failure to comply…

South Korea supports U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea and will actively back confidence-building measures and the ⁠restart of talks between the two sides, South Korea’s national security adviser said on Friday. Seoul believes the resumption of talks between the U.S. and ⁠North Korea should focus on substantive progress on the North Korean nuclear ⁠weapons issue and must not lead to any slump ⁠in the country’s security readiness, Wi ⁠Sung-lac told reporters.

By: Maarij Farooq Nearly six years after the 44 day war ended active hostilities in Karabakh, the deadliest thing in Azerbaijan’s liberated territories is not a soldier. It is the ground. More than one million landmines, alongside an unknown quantity of unexploded ordnance, remain scattered across roughly twelve per cent of Azerbaijan’s territory. That places the country among the most heavily mine contaminated states on earth. Mines do not sign ceasefires. They do not recognise treaties. They wait. The human ledger is precise and it is devastating. Since the trilateral statement of 10 November 2020, Azerbaijan has recorded 427 mine…

The 2026 “A Date with China: Meet Xinjiang” international media tour officially commenced in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The event aimed to build bridges for cross-cultural storytelling, bringing together an international delegation of journalists, experts, social media influencers, and Gen Zers. This year’s delegation comprises 16 foreign participants from 13 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Russia, Algeria, Serbia, Ukraine, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam and Pakistan. They are joined by Chinese reporters from major media outlets such as China Daily Website, China National Radio Online, Global Times, China News Service, and…

The 2026 China-South Africa Human Rights Seminar was held in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Thursday, with around 60 participants reaching consensus on advancing human rights through common modernization. Officials, experts and scholars from China, South Africa and other countries held in-depth discussions on China-Africa economic and trade cooperation and the shared right to development under new circumstances, human rights protection amid the green transition, and advancing human rights through modernized social governance. Prior to the seminar, overseas participants spent three days visiting Hangzhou, Jinhua and Yiwu cities in Zhejiang Province, touring industrial parks, businesses and rural communities. They…