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The U.S. and its allies are discussing the levels for two price caps on Russian petroleum products, which the Western nations are preparing to impose on Feb. 5 in an expansion of their sanctions on Russia’s oil industry. The two caps, one on high-value oil products such as diesel and the other on low-value products such as fuel oil, come in addition to the West’s cap on Russian crude. The allies decided last month to set that at $60 a barrel.  Western officials are trying to…

Hackers are well known to nab customer data held by companies, but obtaining the personal data of pretty much all of the residents of a single nation in one fell swoop takes the nefarious practice to a whole new level. The remarkable feat was allegedly performed by a 25-year-old Dutch hacker who, when arrested by police, had in his possession personal data linked to pretty much every resident of Austria — about nine million people. The suspect was actually arrested in November, Reuters reported, but Austrian police…

India and other countries should pass legislation with enabling mechanisms to bring Big Tech companies and news, media, and content publishers together to work out commercial deals, Paul Fletcher, a member of the Australian House of Representatives and its former communications minister, said. The Australian government was one of the first large governments that passed a law requiring Big Tech companies such as Meta and Google to work out fair deals with news, media and publishing houses for the content shared on their…

The entire point of a streaming service is to offer a buffet of content capable of ensuring subscribers don’t find themselves being distracted by the offerings found elsewhere, and the instant success of Dog Gone on Netflix has ensured that the platform’s most-watched charts aren’t lacking when it comes to variety. As per FlixPatrol, the inspiring and uplifting adventure drama based on Pauls Toutonghi’s book A Lost Pet’s Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home has been welcomed onto the Top 10 in 66…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Barely a week into the new year, a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, becoming one of the youngest school shooters in the nation's history. While details of the case are still emerging, his teacher remains hospitalized with serious injuries. David…

KORAT, Thailand—When Wimonsiri Boonyopakorn ‘s husband moved to Bangkok for work earlier this year, the 35-year-old schoolteacher decided to buy a car so she could make the 160-mile trip to visit him on weekends. She was surprised to find several electric vehicles from Chinese manufacturers that cost less than gas-powered cars of a similar size. “I had an image of an EV being very fancy,” she said. For now, the Thai EV market is just a rounding error in the global car industry.…

An entirely valid criticism leveled at Netflix is the excessive production budgets handed over by the streaming service to give filmmakers almost complete creative freedom, but it’s entirely up to you if the $72 million spent on The Pale Blue Eye is worth the sacrifice of seeing shows like Warrior Nun and 1899 canceled before their time. There’s arguably no real need for a period-set mystery thriller to cost almost as much as a blockbuster action movie, but in an even more unusual twist that only makes things more…

The largest U.S. egg producer on Wednesday said its quarterly sales more than doubled from those of the same period last year as rapid inflation and the effects from an avian-influenza outbreak pushed prices higher. Sickened chickens, which farmers destroy to limit the disease’s spread, have led to reduced egg production and have helped drive egg prices higher, providing a boost for the Ridgeland, Miss.-based company in its fiscal second quarter. Cal-Maine’s net average selling price per dozen eggs for the…

Audiences of a certain generation have a very special place in their hearts for 1996’s Matilda, the acclaimed adaptation of the beloved novel that unfairly tanked at the box office before going on to become a classic in its own way. Fast forward more than a quarter of a century, and Netflix has stepped into the Roald Dahl business after acquiring the rights to some iconic works by the children’s literary titan, with Matilda the Musical exploding out of the gate this past weekend to find the exact same levels of acclaim…

The government will declare only those geographies or countries as “trusted jurisdictions” where the rights of the data principal, as laid out in the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill of 2022, are protected and respected, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. “There is a certain amount of reciprocity as we look to the future of digital trade and corridors of trust. In a post-Covid world, instead of globalisation and free for all, there will be…