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The Cesar Awards, France’s most prestigious film awards, has announced that anyone being investigated on allegations of sexual misconduct will be barred from its ceremony next month.There were fears of protests at the event on 25 February after it was revealed that rising star Sofiane Bennacer was being investigated by police on two allegations of rape and one of violence.Bennacer, 25, who denies any wrongdoing, had been seen as an awards frontrunner for his part in Les Amandiers (Forever Young) about a sexually…

More than two years before a Walmart WMT -1.73% supervisor shot and killed six workers, Walmart Inc. executives investigated employee workplace complaints against him, according to former and current employees. Last month, Andre Bing killed six co-workers and left four others injured before fatally shooting himself at the Chesapeake, Va., store where he worked, police say. The 31-year-old had worked at Walmart since 2010 and was the overnight shift manager. A number of…

“The conduct in these markets raises significant anticompetitive concerns.” Senator Klobuchar wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice.Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar along with other Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into the real estate monopoly guided by RealPage, a software used by some landlords to set monthly rent prices for apartments.Klobuchar, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights, authored a letter…

Photo: PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP (Getty Images)It seems the richest man in the world is not without problems. Reuters reports that Tesla is currently facing a previously undisclosed criminal probe from the Justice Department over its advanced driver assistance system, Autopilot. The probe, which has been ongoing since last year and was kicked off not long after several deadly crashes involving the feature, is seeking to investigate whether Tesla misled the public and investors about the reliability of its autonomous…

iPhone 14 series launch has been impacted by various bugs that have affected users including a Mailjack bug that locked users out of the Mail application and others that triggered low volume during CarPlay phone calls placed on the iPhone 14 Pro, display flickering on some iPhone models once set to low brightness, and an error triggered by editing Cinematic Mode videos shot on an iPhone in Final Cut Pro and iMovie on the Mac. Since then, Apple has gone on to release software updates that seemed to have addressed the…

Legal challenges and investigations are par for the course for multinational corporations, particularly those in the tech space since patents are closely guarded are heavily defended by those that hold them. Samsung has fought long patent battles with many companies, most popularly with Apple, and has also faced investigations from government regulators. The company now faces another inquiry from the U.S. International Trade Commission. Samsung isn’t alone in facing the investigation The U.S. International Trade…

We can all agree that this Twitter deal is causing Elon Musk more trouble than he originally intended. Now, with the current drama with the lawsuit, there seems to be even more drama happening. Elon Musk is under investigation by the federal government over this $44 billion dollar Twitter deal.Let’s catch you upEarlier this year, Elon Musk shook the tech news industry by announcing that he was purchasing the social media platform Twitter. He held a pole asking if people wanted an edit tweet button and all seemed right…

The head of Germany's national cybersecurity agency is under scrutiny over reports of ties to Russian intelligence, officials said Arne Schoenbohm, who heads the BSI agency, co-founded a cybersecurity group a decade ago that brings together experts from public institutions and the private sector. German media reported that one of its members is a company founded by a former Russian intelligence agent. "The Interior Ministry takes the matters reported over the weekend seriously and is investigating them comprehensively,"…

Two Australian regulators said they have opened investigations into Optus, the country's No. 2 telecom provider, after a breach of its systems resulted in the theft of personal data from up to 10 million accounts. The probes only add to headaches for Optus, which disclosed the breach on Sept. 22 and has since come under heavy fire from the government and the public for not preventing the massive cyberattack. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) said it was investigating whether the Singapore…

SACRAMENTO —  After the #MeToo movement revealed a described culture of rampant workplace misconduct in the state Capitol, legislative leaders announced the creation of an independent panel of legal experts to handle employees’ complaints of discrimination and harassment. The Workplace Conduct Unit’s policy pledges to protect staffers from discrimination, harassment and retaliation and its investigators are tasked with conducting “prompt, independent and objective investigations” into allegations of inappropriate…