Author: Steven Sahiounie

Meta has been fined roughly $275 million by Ireland’s data privacy regulator for failing to prevent hackers from siphoning off personal information from more than 500 million Facebook users in a 2019 data leak. Monday’s announcement marked the fourth time in about a year that Facebook (FB)’s parent company has been penalized by the Irish Data Protection Commission, the chief privacy regulator overseeing Meta’s operations in Europe. The decision to impose the fine was made last Friday, the commission said. Since the fall of 2021, Ireland’s DPC has slapped Meta with 912 million euros in fines, going after the social media titan and…

CNN — Sunday officially marks one month since the world’s richest man took the helm at Twitter.In that time, Elon Musk initiated mass layoffs and gave remaining staffers a cryptic ultimatum, reinstated the accounts of controversial figures including former President Donald Trump, and launched – then punted – a plan to charge for Twitter’s iconic blue checkmarks.After spending months embroiled in an unsuccessful legal battle to get out of his initial proposal to buy Twitter, Musk made his first splashy entrance into the company’s offices on Oct. 26, carrying a sink. (In a video of the incident shared on Twitter,…

China will launch the Shenzhou-15 crewed spaceship on Tuesday evening, sending another batch of three taikonauts to the orbiting China Space Station (CSS), the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said at a press conference on Monday. A Long March-2F Y15 rocket carrying the spaceship is scheduled to blast off at 11:08 p.m. Beijing Time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said Ji Qiming, spokesperson for the CMSA. Taikonauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu have been selected to carry out the Shenzhou-15 space mission, with Fei serving as the mission commander. They will live and work in the…

Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu will carry out the Shenzhou-15 spaceflight mission, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced at a press conference on Monday. Fei, who participated in the Shenzhou-6 manned flight mission 17 years ago, will serve as the commander on Shenzhou-15. Accompanying him will be two first-timers Deng and Zhang, according to Ji Qiming, spokesperson for the CMSA. With the average age of 53, it seems that the Shenzhou-15 crew members are old. However, Fei said that “our flying skills remain young” as the three spent the past decade preparing for the space mission. …

“COVID-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. We estimate that workers with week-long work absences are seven percent less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons,” say the study’s authors, Gopi Shah Goda of Stanford University and Evan Soltas of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Economics Department. “Many who fall ill but survive COVID-19 suffer from enduring health problems … approximately 500,000 adults are neither working nor actively looking for work due to the persistent effects of COVID-19 illnesses,” the study adds. Another study…

Germany are still alive. For 90 minutes, during which the four-time world champions were recurrently outclassed, outmaneuvered and almost overwhelmed by Spain, Hansi Flick’s side clung to their belief in World Cup survival. Even when losing by 1-0 with only a few minutes left to play, when the pressure might have been too great, there was a firm strand of faith that ran through Germany and defied all the odds – they are here to stay. German fans had prepared themselves for the worst. Their uncharacteristically lackluster team were staring down the barrel of a second successive group stage exit…

Japan’s manufacturing activity contracted at the fastest pace in two years in November as demand worsened due to strong inflationary pressures, a business survey showed on Thursday. The contraction in factory activity also marked the first monthly decline in 22 months and raised a question mark over Japan’s economic outlook as the country relies heavily on trade with China and other nations for its growth. The au Jibun Bank Flash Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) slipped to a seasonally adjusted 49.4 in November from a final reading of 50.7 in the previous month. That meant activity recorded the sharpest…

The global economy is stuttering, and some of the world’s biggest names are already laying off thousands of employees. But there’s a glimmer of good news: This time around, workers have a better-than-usual shot at holding onto their jobs if recession arrives. Almost three years after COVID-19 hit, companies around the world still complain that they can’t get the talent they need. They worry about labor shortages that will likely last beyond not just the pandemic, but the next downturn too. Deeper forces, such as changes in population and immigration, are shrinking the pool of workers they can hire from.…

world Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab praised Communist China in a November 19 interview with cgtn’s Tian Wei, calling it a “role model” for many countries. Specifically, Schwab told Chinese state media that humanity needs a “systemic transformation of the world” and that while we “should be very careful in imposing systems,” the “Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries.” He did not elaborate on what aspects of the Chinese model appealed to him, but he has long been a vocal advocate of corporate socialism. Great Reset: Schwab, a German engineer and economist, founded the…

440$ million: That’s the total available prize money pool for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. At the ongoing Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Saudi Arabian male national team beat the Lionel Messi-led star-studded Argentine national team in their opening group game of the World Cup and social media went into overdrive. News broke, accompanied by a curious video of the Saudi team being rewarded with a Rolls Royce car each. Alas, the news about this extraordinary reward was false. This does not take away from the bountiful financial harvest that the World Cup represents for FIFA, the competing national…