WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday that if there was still a problem with access to Starlink communication systems in Ukraine, he would get it straightened out. Trump told reporters at the White House that he had not spoken to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the matte
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – US Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, on Friday raised concerns about Facebook parent Meta Platforms’ plan to update its commercial terms, saying it could harm businesses and creators. Blackburn, who is chair of the Senate Judiciary S
The Illinois State Police broke ground Thursday on a $55 million, 60,000-square-foot regional headquarters in East St. Louis, projected to open in summer 2028.
By AJ Vicens Oct 23 (Reuters) – PwC on Friday said it was aware of a cybersecurity incident involving a third-party vendor used to host company employee learning records, the day after a cyber extortion group claimed to have stolen 590 gigabytes of company data. • A PwC global spokesperson said “the
By Mehnaz Yasmin and Harshita Mary Varghese Oct 23 (Reuters) – Telecom giants AT&T and T-Mobile are investing to safeguard customer data and network infrastructure from new cybersecurity threats as AI integration ramps up, though fully autonomous networks remain years away, company executives told R
By Elizabeth Howcroft and Ardee NAPOLITANO PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Parisians are buying tear-gas cannisters and pepper sprays to defend themselves and their property during protests, which are expected to continue over the weekend, the owner of a weapons shop in the French capital told Reuters. Fr
MILAN, Oct 23 (Reuters) – As the financial system turns increasingly digital, banks must resist the temptation to delay investments until they know which technology will prevail, a senior Bank of Italy official said on Friday. • Waiting could help lenders save money in the short term, but it “also h
Oct 23 (Reuters) – Global data center spending is expected to hit $1 trillion in 2026 and more than double to $2.1 trillion by 2028, BofA Global Research estimated in a note on Friday, driven by growing demand for and development of AI services. Data center spending has been a fast-growing source of
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 23 (Reuters) – South Africa’s presidency temporarily took its website offline following a PHP warning, presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya told Reuters on Friday, adding there was no indication of a security breach. “While such warnings do not indicate a security breach, the
By Soren Jeppesen COPENHAGEN, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Denmark’s heavy reliance on digital systems leaves it vulnerable to cyberattacks that could undermine public trust in authorities, the country’s resilience minister told Reuters on Friday. Denmark is among the world’s most digitalised countries, and c
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(SRNN NEWS)-( ) A famous Florida church is planning a celebration. Coral Ridge Presbyterian, founded in 1960 by the noted radio preacher Dr. D. James Kennedy, will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a big extension on November 8th. Church officials say the Moss Center for Worship and the Arts will h
(SRN NEWS)- Writing on Facebook the popular evangelist says believers need to consider carefully who they vote for and ask God for wisdom. Graham also contrasted the platforms of the two parties, characterizing Democrats as supporting open borders, noncitizen voting, and taxpayer-funded healthcare f
(SRN NEWS)-According to the state’s Department of Public Health, only three abortions were carried out in 2025. Alabama allows abortion only in cases where the mother’s life is at risk or the unborn child suffers from “lethal abnormalities.” However, the department also reports that more than 1800 w
(SRN NEWS)- The government sent a SWAT team to break up a prayer meeting being held at a humanitarian shelter in the suburbs of Oran. Twelve believers were arrested at the House of Refuge shelter and charged with holding an unauthorized non-Muslim worship service. Algeria used to ignore its small Ch
(SRN NEWS)- A new study of teenagers in the U.S., U.K., India, and eight other countries finds that one-third of them have an AI companion. The same survey also reveals that adolescents have fewer friendships amongst ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS than ever before. Meanwhile, 40% of the teens who participated
Oct 23 (Reuters) – Indian IT services provider Coforge posted a 53.6% rise in second-quarter revenue on Friday, helped by a full-quarter contribution from acquired engineering-services company Encora and demand for AI-led engineering, data and cloud services. • Consolidated revenue from operations r
BUCHAREST, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Romanian President Nicusor Dan accused Russia of escalating its attacks on NATO’s eastern flank on Friday, after a drone strike sank a cargo ship off the Romanian Black Sea coast, killing at least one sailor with three still missing. Video released by Romanian authoriti
BENGALURU, Oct 23 Reuters) – Infosys trimmed its annual revenue growth forecast on Friday despite marginally beating estimates for quarterly revenue after demand from its energy and utility clients picked up. Revenue at India’s second-largest IT services provider rose 10.7% to 492.44 billion rupees
Oct 23 (Reuters) – Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) on Friday launched two new indexes covering AI and semiconductor companies, and signed a licensing deal with China Southern Asset Management for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on the AI index in mainland China. Here are the details: • Th
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – People can readily share images and sounds digitally, as evidenced by the billions of smartphones in use globally that often overload the human senses of sight and hearing. But smell generally remains missing from remote communication. That could soon change. Researche
BEIJING/HONGKONG, Oct 23 (Reuters) – China’s securities regulator said on Friday it has approved a plan by Citi to establish a fully owned securities unit in China, allowing the Wall Street bank to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest economy. Headquartered in Shanghai, Citigroup Securi
Oct 23 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Friday it would collaborate with Poland’s NASK National Research Institute on AI safety, security and technical research, as rising incidents of rogue behaviour by AI agents put AI safety in the spotlight. • Through the agreement, NASK’s AI Safety Research Center an
TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Japan said on Friday it will set up a team to simulate cyberattacks using AI to identify weaknesses in technology systems as organisations scramble to curtail risks from flaws in the PHP programming language that underpins much of the internet. Government and company websit
Oct 23 (Reuters) – Ukraine is in talks with EU member states Poland and Slovakia about moving customs checks on lorries carrying grain exports from the border to inside those countries, to halt Russian drone attacks on the trucks, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with t
By Brenda Goh SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) – A cyberattack likely caused intermittent internet outages in North Korea that took down several of the reclusive country’s state-managed websites this week, analysis by US network monitoring company Kentik found. North Korea’s internet experienced multiple wav
By Vibhuti Sharma MUMBAI, Oct 23 (Reuters) – In Asia’s richest family that controls the oil-to-retail Reliance empire, Mukesh Ambani’s eldest son Akash is set to take centre stage as their telecoms and digital unit nears a stock market debut. Akash Ambani, who turned 35 on Friday, is the managing di
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE, Oct 23 (Reuters) – The Japanese yen was set for its biggest weekly gain since early September, buoyed by safe-haven flows as risk-aversion took hold in the broader markets that pushed US Treasury yields sharply lower and left the dollar hugging a three-week trough. The moves in t
By Nancy Lapid Oct 22 (Reuters) – Microsoft researchers say an AI tool that diagnoses patients step by step, as doctors do, was more than twice as accurate as general physicians at solving complex medical cases, according to a study published on Thursday in Science. The model identifies and coordina
By Yimou Lee YILAN, Taiwan, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Almost all of Taiwan shut down on Friday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Champi, which is forecast to bring strong winds and torrential rain, and though the storm is weakening it could still make direct landfall on the island. At one point a super typho
