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Autonomous vehicles developer Yandex NV’s (NASDAQ: YNDX) Self-Driving Group forged a multi-year partnership with online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform GrubHub Inc (NASDAQ: GRUB) for faster and more cost-effective deliveries on the U.S. college campuses. The financial terms of the collaboration remain undisclosed. Yandex… Source link

The prospect of a retreat from Hong Kong was floated in a letter released publicly this week by the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a Singapore-based association that counts Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and Google (GOOGL) as members. The memo, which is dated June 25 and sent by the group to Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner for personal data, Ada Chung Lai-ling, pushes back on a recently introduced bill that seeks to crack down on doxxing. The practice refers to the sharing of private… Source link

Associated Press Iraqi militia commander vows to avenge deaths in US strike The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. airstrike along the Iraq-Syria border last month, saying it will be a military operation everyone will talk about. Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad that the electoral victory of Iran’s hard-line… Source link

Topline Proposed anti-doxxing laws could soon make Hong Kong an unsustainable place to do business, warned an industry group representing some of the world’s largest tech companies—including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook—in the latest sign of growing dissatisfaction as Beijing tightens its hold on the city. Hong Kong’s anti-doxxing law has been criticized as overly restrictive. getty Key Facts In a letter to Hong Kong’s data protection commissioner seen by… Source link

Associated Press Scale, details of massive Kaseya ransomware attack emerge Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang, best known for extorting $11 million from the meat-processor JBS after a Memorial Day attack, infected thousands of victims in at… Source link

Google and Facebook logos and Australian flag are displayed in this illustration taken, February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo July 1 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, Country Press Australia, to negotiate with Google and Facebook for payments for news content on their platforms. Country Press Australia (CPA) is seeking authorisation to allow its members to hammer out a payments deal… Source link

Searchers on Friday spent a second day scouring a North Carolina river for a 30-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy missing since they went over a dam during a family float trip. Three people, including a 14-year-old, were found dead Thursday after nine relatives on inflatable tubes in the Dan River went over the dam around nightfall Wednesday, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office said. Four people were rescued, and two others, Teresa Villino, 30, and Isiah Crawford, 7, remained missing, the… Source link

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Advocacy groups are calling on the Education Department (ED) to forgive $8 billion in student debt held by nearly 518,000 borrowers who are totally and permanently disabled. The groups sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Friday morning, stating that the department’s existing regulations “unnecessarily prevent qualifying borrowers from accessing and maintaining loan cancellation.” ED confirmed to Yahoo Finance that the agency received the letter and did not provide additional… Source link

Online traders have found new targets during this week’s “meme stock” resurgence.  Geo Group (GEO), a company that owns and manages private prisons, saw shares soar by as much as 73% intraday on Wednesday for the stock’s biggest one-day gain on record. Shares pared some advances after reaching as high as $11.00 apiece and closed 38% higher, or at $8.80 per share.  Natural gas service provider Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE), likewise, rose as much as 46% on Wednesday before ending the day up… Source link