Discount-window borrowing surged to record $152.85 billion New facility usage totaled $11.9 billion in first three days Banks borrowed a combined $164.8 billion from two…
HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn announced the acquisition of the Silicon Valley Bank UK unit for £1. HSBC said on Monday it is acquiring the UK…
Age verification systems are surveillance systems. Mandatory age verification, and with it, mandatory identity verification, is the wrong approach to protecting young people online. It…
According to a report by the Times of Israel, the country’s two largest banks were able to transfer $1 billion out of Silicon Valley Bank…
Amnesty International Friday called for Tunisia to put an immediate end to racist and xenophobic attacks targeting Black African migrants. The violence began in early…
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Sudani Sunday announced a new campaign to address the impacts of climate change. During a two-day climate conference in Basra, Sudani…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday proposed a regulation to limit the amount of six different per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. The…
Six environmental and Indigenous organizations joined in bringing a lawsuit Tuesday against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and…
The possibility of greater convenience and security together is positioning biometrics to dethrone passwords as the top choice for authentication among consumers, according to a…
A computer-vision synthetic data company says it can now provide synthetic data for auto-related use cases. Original equipment makers reportedly can use the software from…
Companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools and analytics to reduce cost, enhance efficiency, raise performance, and minimize bias in hiring and other job-related…
Last Friday saw the total failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th biggest bank in the United States. The biggest bank failure since the…
Another FBI whistleblower has stepped forward to tell the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government that the agency had him boost domestic…
The Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright recently discussed a new “international socialist conspiracy” that has taken the world by storm. “Fringe forces of the far left,” he noted, “are…
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis There was…
UN member states Saturday agreed to a legally-binding high seas treaty after nearly 20 years of talks. The high seas treaty aims to protect 30 percent…
Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Letizia Ailio…
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Thursday announced that his office plans to “fight for fairness in women’s sports” and will ask the US Supreme…
CHARLOTTE — Wells Fargo set out to reach 50% cloud certification among its 30,000 engineers at the start of 2022; and by the end of…
“Co-appearance” sounds like a movie credit, but, in this case, you might not have signed up for the role. Also called “correlation analysis,” this new…