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Ireland fines Meta 91 mn euros over EU data breach
Ireland fines Meta 91 mn euros over EU data breach
Economy
by  AFP

An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 million) for password-security breaches. The Data Protection Commission criticised Meta for failing to put in place appropriate security measures to protect users' password data and for taking too long to alert the regulator over the issue.

Stranded cruise ship passengers bid bitter-sweet farewell to Belfast
Stranded cruise ship passengers bid bitter-sweet farewell to Belfast
Economy
by  AFP

A luxury round-the-world cruise ship beset with technical delays and docked in rainy Belfast since May is finally set to depart, prompting mixed emotions among its passengers. - Delays - Passengers are able to either buy or rent long-term cabins on the so-called "residential" cruise ship, with the promise of unlimited voyages around the globe.

UK clears $4 bn AI partnership between Amazon, Anthropic
UK clears $4 bn AI partnership between Amazon, Anthropic
Economy
by  AFP

Britain's competition regulator on Friday cleared Amazon's investment of up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an American developer of artificial intelligence, following a short probe. The British regulator had probed whether the partnership caused "a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services".