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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole from a telecommunications company the personal data of 9.8 million customers, the attorney-general said Thursday. Attorney-General…
BUCHAREST, Romania — Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States was elected Thursday to head the U.N.’s telecommunications agency, winning a U.S.-Russia face-off for the leadership of a key global agency that sets guideposts for radio, internet and television communications —…
NEW YORK — Amazon said Wednesday it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour, a boost that could help it attract more employees in a tight labor market as the holiday season approaches.…
With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017, Maung Sawyeddollah, 21, describes what happened when violent hate speech and disinformation targeting the Rohingya minority in Myanmar…
Things can’t be all bad when the new prime minister of Italy quotes G.K. Chesterton. Three years ago, in a thrilling speech to the World Congress of Families, Giorgia Meloni took up Chesterton’s favorite theme: that our reason is destroyed,…
Kate Berlant’s new standup special, “Cinnamon in the Wind,” is not actually new. Directed by Bo Burnham, it was filmed in 2019 and slated to be released on FX. Instead, it languished for reasons unknown. “Show biz is a tough…
