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The maker of a massive wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island says a manufacturing problem was responsible

A preliminary investigation into the July 18 hack of the $235 million WazirX cryptocurrency exchange found no evidence of compromise within its infrastructure.

CB Payments Limited (CBPL), a subsidiary of the Coinbase Group, has been fined £3,503,546 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for repeatedly violating a restriction that barred the firm from offering services to high-risk customers.

As daily temperatures hit record highs across much of the South, a federal judge has taken an unusual step, challenging the treatment of mostly Black incarcerated workers in the fields

paper leak case.

Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on MLA Abbas Ansari's plea seeking bail in a case where he has been accused of threatening various people to extort money while using the mobile phone of his wife who used to visit him in Chitrakoot district jail where he was lodged. Ansari, an MLA from Mau assembly constituency, has moved the apex court challenging the May 1 order of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court which had rejected his bail plea in the case.

Privacy Commissioner of Canada has opened an investigation into allegations that some Loblaw customers have been unable to delete their PC Optimum accounts.The office has received several such complaints, spokesman Vito Pilieci said in an email Tuesday.He said the office can’t comment further due to the active investigation.Loblaw spokeswoman Catherine Thomas said in an email Tuesday that the company has processes to respond to account deletion requests in a timely manner, and that it will fully co-operate with the privacy commissioner’s office.In an email to one complainant viewed by The Canadian Press, an investigator for the commissioner’s office said they have received “a high number of complaints” regarding attempts to cancel PC Optimum accounts.Several complainants allege they have tried several times to delete their accounts, and that Loblaw has been unresponsive to their queries, the investigator wrote.Loblaw did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday regarding the specifics in the email.The PC Optimum loyalty program has more than 16 million active users, according to Loblaw’s 2023 annual report.The Office of the Privacy Commissioner oversees compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) as well as the Privacy Act.According to their website, PIPEDA “sets the ground rules for how private-sector organizations collect, use, and disclose personal information in the course of for-profit, commercial activities across Canada.”Personal information under PIPEDA includes details such as a person’s name, age, income or ID number.

A Tennessee store clerk is in hot water after authorities say he stole a customer’s winning lottery ticket, threw it away and later fished it out of the trash and tried to claim the winnings as his own.

Meta says it has removed about 63,000 Instagram accounts engaging in sexual extortion scams

MonoSwap urged its users on July 24 to withdraw funds immediately following a security breach that compromised its wallets and contracts.

legislative assembly of Bihar, a state which has been at the centre of yet another paper leak controversy, on Wednesday passed a bill aimed at curbing leaks of question papers of competitive and recruitment examinations.

Pune, which had issued a seven per cent locomotor disability certificate to IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, has found in its internal probe that the document was as per the rules and there was no wrongdoing in its issuance, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Spain's antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation into possible anti-competitive behaviour by Apple's App Store, an allegation the tech giant denied.

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered information from eight companies that the agency says offer products and services that use personal data to set prices based on a shopper’s individual characteristics

Southwest Airlines is under increased scrutiny by federal safety officials

U.S. airline regulators have opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines, which is still struggling to restore operations on Tuesday, more than four full days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and disrupted global air...

Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was still about 5 miles from its intended landing spot in Tampa, Florida

South Korean prosecutors have arrested the founder of the country’s tech giant Kakao Corp. on suspicion of stock price rigging during his company’s takeover of a major K-pop agency last year

Nigerian legislators have begun an investigation into the alleged importation of contaminated fuel into the country, part of efforts to resolve issues causing a rift between an oil refinery owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote and the industry r...

Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said. The plane crashed in Youngstown, N.Y., about 24 kilometres from Niagara Falls.After an initial investigation, police determined that Georger had released all the skydivers on the plane and was heading back to land when she crashed.

Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi is scheduled to visit Mumbai today to review the situation after warship INS Brahmaputra got severely damaged in a fire incident.