Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to spur growth. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech giant Microsoft will invest … Read more
US President Joe Biden has spent nearly a year vowing his determination to prevent the war in Gaza engulfing the wider Middle East. On Tuesday, he repeated that resolve in his last ever United Nations speech as president, as he addressed the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. “A diplomatic solution is still possible. … Read more
The UN’s refugee agency says one of its staff members and one of her children were killed in an Israeli air strike in eastern Lebanon – one of well over a thousand such strikes over the past two days. The UNHCR said Dina Darwiche’s home was hit on Monday. Her husband and her older son … Read more
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike faced its biggest grilling yet over its role in July’s mass global IT outage in Congress on Tuesday. Adam Meyers, a senior executive at the company, appeared before a US congressional committee to answer questions about its faulty software update that disabled millions of PCs on 19 July. The incident knocked payment … Read more
A New South Wales, Australia man pleaded guilty to a serious charge after tossing a beloved and respected chicken named “Betty White” from a wildlife park, into an alligator pen, simply to feed the reptile, according to reports. Nine News in New South Wales reported that 58-year-old Peter Smith of Hunterview pleaded guilty in Raymond … Read more
One of the world’s largest e-commerce companies is emerging as a top pick on Wall Street as investors look for tech opportunities beyond the Magnificent Seven. MercadoLibre, an Argentinian e-commerce and payments platform that’s incorporated in Delaware and actively traded on Nasdaq, is up 34% in 2024, compared to a roughly 27% rise for Amazon, … Read more
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer made an unfortunate gaffe during a speech at his party’s conference Tuesday when he mistakenly called for the return of “sausages,” instead of hostages, held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Starmer was speaking at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool when he called for a de-escalation between … Read more
A row between a prominent journalist and a king has captivated many in Ghana. It began when Afia Pokua criticised the Ashanti king’s handling of tensions with other ethnic groups, the deference that politicians show him, and expressed her frustration about the apparent supremacy of the Asante community. “Even the president… bowed to show respect … Read more
Getty Images Israel has launched more than 1,000 air strikes on Lebanon over the past two days Israel’s leaders are jubilant about the progress of the offensive against Hezbollah that started with the detonation of weaponised pagers and radios and moved on to intense and deadly airstrikes. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant did not hold back … Read more
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