Month: January 2025

Technology

Permanent job vacancies in UK shrink at fastest pace for four years

Job market data deepens sense of gloom enveloping UK plc as analysts plan close look…

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Technology

Retailers warn of higher prices in 2025 and urge ministers to ease tax burden

Companies grappling with higher employment costs say price of food may rise by 4.2% in…

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Technology

Meta’s changes to policing will lead to clash with EU and UK, say experts

Politicians criticise Mark Zuckerberg’s choice to scrap factcheckers, affecting Facebook, Instagram and Threads Permitted ‘hateful…

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Technology

‘Dispiriting’: factchecker reacts to Meta’s move to scrap role

Mark Zuckerberg accused fact-checkers in US of making biased decisions • Meta scraps factcheckers The…

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Technology

Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were ‘too complex’

Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes move by…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Dogecoin Slumps 10% Amid Bitcoin’s Slide to $96K, $560M Long Positions Liquidated

Dogecoin (DOGE) led losses among crypto majors as bitcoin (BTC) slid to nearly $96,000, a…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Trusted Autonomy: Why Human-Machine Teams Will Run on Crypto Networks

Autonomous robots may sound like sci-fi concepts that are decades away, but large language models…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Coinbase Granted Significant Advance in Court Clash With Gensler’s SEC

Coinbase Inc. has been given an unusual chance to skip ahead in a U.S. federal…

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Technology

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media | Chris Stokel-Walker

The Meta boss’s decision to end Facebook and Instagram’s factchecking program has set the stage…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Arbitrum Awards Biggest-Ever Foundation Grant to Lotte, the South Korean Megacorp Lotte Group

Arbitrum, the largest layer-2 network on top of Ethereum, has awarded its biggest-ever developer grant…

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