One week after the European Commission opened a new formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and expanded a separate probe launched in December 2023, X’s Paris office was raided by France’s cybercrime unit as part of an investigation into the distribution of sexual deepfakes and Holocaust denial content. “A […]

Dark storm clouds have gathered over Nintendo since the start of December, as investor concerns mount over tariffs, rising memory prices, and chatter about soft US holiday sales. The stock in Tokyo remains about one-third below its August peak. Earnings on Tuesday reconfirmed the gloom after Nintendo reported third-quarter operating income that missed the average […]

Via The Cradle China’s teapot refiners are buying discounted Iranian crude to replace the loss of supplies from Venezuela following Washington’s violent takeover of the South American nation’s oil, Reuters reported Monday. “The drawdown of Iranian oil held in storage is making up for the drop in Venezuelan supply to the world’s largest crude importer,” the news agency […]

The Argument‘s poll found that only 37 percent of respondents believed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be a very or somewhat trustworthy source of information—the same level of trust respondents said they placed in Trump—whereas 70 percent of respondents found the video recordings very or somewhat trustworthy. Lakshya Jain, The Argument’s chief pollster, […]

Former U.K. Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson – who was fired last September from his new role as ambassador to the United States due to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein – is facing mounting political and legal pressure following disclosures that he may have shared market-sensitive government information with Epstein during the global financial crisis. Keir Starmer, […]