Sept 29 (Reuters) – Spotify and Anthropic’s Claude were down for thousands of U.S. users on Tuesday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 17,000 U.S. users reported issues with Spotify as of 10:12 a.m. ET, while more than 11,000 users reported issues with Claude,…
By Marc Jones LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Visa has open-sourced part of its AI-powered cyber defence system after “humbling” lessons from vulnerabilities exposed by AI models, as the payments giant braces for autonomous cyberattacks and future quantum-computing threats. Visa processes roughly a billion payments…
By Ali Sawafta and Lina Obeid JALUD, West Bank, Sept 29 (Reuters) – More than 100 Israeli settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank, preventing a Palestinian family from returning home and clashing with troops, witnesses said. Two houses belonging to the…
Rubio: ‘Foreign Actor’ Clearly Involved in Suspected RAF Fairford Bomb Plot By The Media Line Staff US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday night that a foreign party was clearly involved in a suspected bomb plot targeting RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, describing the…
(Miami, FL) — Hurricane Polo has made landfall in Baja California, Mexico. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Polo hit land as a Category 2 storm just south of Las Barrancas early today with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour.…
(Washington, DC) — Plans have been announced for a new 15-billion-dollar steel plant in southeast Iowa. President Trump says the Mesabi [[ meh-SAW-bee ]] Metallics facility in Lee County will be the largest steel manufacturing plant in U.S. history. The facility is expected to create…
(Washington, DC) — President Trump’s ban on some Canadian motorcycles, alcohol, dairy and other products is in effect. The ban went into force just after midnight. It’s the latest in the trade war between the two neighbors as Trump looks to force Canada into making…
(Washington, DC) — An AI summit is taking place at the White House today as fears grow over its possible threat to humanity. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will host Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia and others. Johnson…
Sept 29 (Reuters) – Meta said on Tuesday it is adding new features to Instagram’s school partnership program in the US, expanding tools for schools and students as the social media company steps up efforts to protect teens online. Here are some details: • Meta…
By Victoria Waldersee and Corina Pons MADRID, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Spain is planning to override standard migration procedures and tighten rules on asylum seeking for migrants who arrived in its North African enclave of Ceuta in July’s mass crossing, a draft decree seen by Reuters…
