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The Global Payment Company logo is displayed on your smartphone.Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesGlobal payments Shares fell 17% on Thursday after saying they were selling their issuer solutions business and buying WorldPay for over $24 billion Fidelity National Information Services. The company said when FIS acquires WorldPay, which it purchased before selling its majority stake in 2019, it could expand its scope, serving more than 6 million customers in over 175 countries, allowing for a $3.7 trillion annual payment volume. When selling the Issuer Solutions Unit to FIS for $13.5 billion, Global Payments sells backend financial processing units…
Businesses around the US have begun to cut DEI programs from public documents and eliminate DEI commitments in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondy directed the Department of Justice to “investigate, exclude and penalize” what is deemed illegal in private companies receiving federal funds. Trump has signed an executive order banning federal DEI with the approval of right-handed companion Elon Musk, a South African immigrant and longtime Day accuser. The government’s response to the anti-diversity push has taken many forms. One contractor said NASA has begun to…
China-related threat actors known as Mustang Pandas are attributed to cyberattacks targeting unspecified Myanmar organizations with previously unreported tools, highlighting the ongoing efforts by threat actors to improve the refinement and effectiveness of malware. This includes an updated version of a known backdoor called Toneshell, a new lateral exercise tool called Starproxy, and an endpoint detection and response (EDR) answer driver with two keyloggers called Paklog, Corklog, and Splatcloak. “Toneshell, the backdoor used by Mustang Panda, has been updated with changes to the Faketls Command-and-Control (C2) communication protocol and how to create and store client identifiers,” Zscaler Threatlabz researcher Sudeep…
Syrian new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hopes for a better relationship with Moscow, Qatar said.Qatar’s Emil Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is keen on the new Syrian leadership to develop ties with Moscow. In a speech in the Russian capital on Thursday, Al Thani assured Russian leaders that interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa is trying to develop ties with Russia after the removal of former Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad. “As for Syria, President Al-Shara was in Qatar a few days ago. We spoke with him about the historical and strategic relationship between Syria and Russia,”…
There is some concern that new trends will go viral. People use ChatGpt to know where they are shown in the photos. This week, Openai released its latest AI models, the O3 and O4-Mini. In reality, models can crop, rotate and zoom in on photos – even blurry and distorted ones can be thoroughly analyzed. These image analysis features combine with the ability to search the model’s web to create powerful location survey tools. X users quickly discovered that O3, in particular, is extremely good at inferring restaurants and bars from cities, landmarks and even subtle visual cues. Wow, I…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s administration escalates Continuing battle with Harvardthreatened to revoke the university’s ability to host international students as he called on as president to withdraw Harvard’s tax-free status.The Department of Homeland Security ordered Harvard University late Tuesday to take over a “detailed record” of “illegal and violent activities” of foreign student visa holders by April 30th. International students account for 27% of campus.The department also said it has cancelled two $2.7 million grants to the school. The move deepened Harvard’s crackdown and became the first university to openly ignore the administration’s demands related to campus activities,…
Foundation EGI, an AI engineering startup that spun from MIT, has officially been launched by Stealth with a $7.6 million seed round. The funds were led by the E14 Fund and Union Lab Venture, and were joined by Samsung Next, Grids Capital, Stata Venture Partners and Henry Ford III. The company takes on one of the most overlooked problems in manufacturing. It’s a messy, manual engineering process that doesn’t meet the digital transformation seen in other industries. Engineering General Intelligence (EGI) Foundation EGI says it has built its first domain-specific AI platform focusing on General Engineering Information (EGI). The platform…
A federal judge found that by “acquiring and maintaining monopoly” in the ad technology market, Google violates antitrust laws and concludes the two-year story after the US and eight states filed their first complaints against alphabet-owned companies. The court will set up a briefing schedule and hearing date for each application Thursday to determine the appropriate remedy for antitrust violations. The remedies include Google disbanding advertising businesses, such as the ad servers used by publishers, such as the sale of ADX AD Exchange and Google Ad Manager, including DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers). Alternatively, the court could force behavioral therapy that…
Social media posts have warned President Donald Trump for more than a month that he will declare martial law on April 20th. This usually means that the military will suspend civil law while controlling civilian functions such as courts. However, many posts appeared to blend martial law with the potential invocation of the 1807 Rebellion Act mentioned in a recent executive order. “I learned about this executive order (Section 6-B), which I posted on March 19th when Trump summoned the Rebellion Act of 1807 and declared martial law (amount). The story spreads beyond Reddit to Facebook posts and videos shared…
The group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 has been removed from Russia’s list of banned “terrorist” organizations.The Russian Supreme Court has suspended the Taliban ban, which it had designated as a “terrorist organization” for more than 20 years. The latest move aims to normalize relations with the de facto ruler of Afghanistan. According to Russian TASS News Agency, Judge Oleg Nefedov announced that Thursday’s ruling — prompted by a request from prosecutors — would be effective immediately. The move in favor of the group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 continues its long-standing gradual reconciliation with Moscow…