Sarah Palin and the New York Times are headed back to a courtroom where the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate will try convincing a second jury the newspaper defamed her in an editorial about gun control. A retrial in Palin’s nearly eight-year-old lawsuit is scheduled to begin on Monday in Manhattan federal … Read more
Microsoft has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Azure AI Face service deemed worthy of a CVSS score of 9.9 potentially leading to elevation of privileges over a network. Azure AI Face is a cloud-based facial recognition service that is capable of detecting, analyzing and recognizing human faces. The service can be used by developers … Read more
An increase in economic growth in southern Europe – combined with stagnation in the French and German economies – has led to talk of a “reversal of fortunes” in the Eurozone. Yet as Bob Hancké explains, the economic reality may be much bleaker than it appears. It’s hard not to be even a little bit … Read more
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called Tuesday, January 21, for “cool heads” in the face of US President Donald Trump’s announcement of severe new restrictions on migration, among other policy changes. Sheinbaum said Mexico was preparing to repatriate people from other countries expelled by the United States, after Trump vowed to deport “millions and millions” of … Read more
The US Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Meta Platforms Inc., leaving it to face a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders about the data-harvesting scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Investors claim the company, then known as Facebook, inflated share prices by failing to adequately disclose the risk that its user … Read more