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Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework

Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework

The commercial spyware industry has increasingly come under fire for selling powerful surveillance tools to anyone who can pay, from governments to criminals around the world. Across the European Union, details of how spyware has been used to target activists, opposition leaders, lawyers, and journalists in multiple countries have recently touched off scandals and calls for reform. Today, Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced action to block one such hacking tool that targeted desktop… Source link

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Google inks power deal for large solar project ‘to operate Spanish cloud region carbon-free’

Google inks power deal for large solar project ‘to operate Spanish cloud region carbon-free’

German developer Ib Vogt has started to build the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in the Spanish province of Zamora, and signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for its output with US internet giant Google. The developer has started construction of the project near the city of Toro in northwestern Spain in September after receiving €90m in long-term project financing by Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (NORD/LB) and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB),… Source link

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Google inks power deal for major solar plant ‘to operate Spanish cloud region carbon-free’

Google inks power deal for major solar plant ‘to operate Spanish cloud region carbon-free’

Web giant Google has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with German developer Ib Vogt for output from the 149MW Garnacha solar plant in the Spanish province of Zamora. The developer has started construction of the project near the city of Toro in northwestern Spain in September after receiving €90m ($93.4m) in long-term project financing by Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, and plans to start operations by October next year. … Source link

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Spanish Inflation Unexpectedly Quickens, Raising Pressure on ECB

Spanish Inflation Unexpectedly Quickens, Raising Pressure on ECB

(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast Most Read from Bloomberg Spanish inflation unexpectedly quickened, denting hopes that the euro zone’s record price surge is peaking and piling more pressure on the European Central Bank to act. The acceleration — to 8.5% in May from 8.3% the previous month under European Union harmonized standards — came as increases in fuel costs offset an easing in electricity prices that have… Source link

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John McAfee found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition

BARCELONA, June 23 (Reuters) – Antivirus creator John McAfee, 75, was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona after the Spanish high court had authorised his extradition to the U.S., the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper.    Everything points it could be a death by suicide, the department said in a statement.    The high court had agreed to extradite him back to the U.S. where he faces tax evasion charges. (Reporting by Inti Landauro… Source link

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Alphabet in talks with Spanish publishers to bring Google News back, sources say

(This Feb. 22 story corrects to clarify Google’s position, paragraph 5) FILE PHOTO: Letters spell the word “Alphabet” as they are seen on a computer screen with a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Paris, France, August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol MADRID (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is negotiating individual licensing deals with a divided Spanish news industry that could allow the U.S. tech giant’s news service to resume in the country, three sources close to… Source link

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Alphabet in talks with Spanish publishers to bring Google News back, sources say

MADRID (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is negotiating individual licensing deals with a divided Spanish news industry that could allow the U.S. tech giant’s news service to resume in the country, three sources close to the matter told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Letters spell the word “Alphabet” as they are seen on a computer screen with a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Paris, France, August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Google News, which links to third party content,… Source link

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