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Fernando Moreno has been waiting for a kidney transplant for about two years

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3 d. ago Budding racing driver’s desperate plea for a kidney transplant to save his stalled career

Dan Mackintosh has been training to become a professional racing driver since he was six

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Elon Musk's social media network X (formerly Twitter) has gone down again - days after Cloudflare shut down several high-profile websites.

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last month Meta wins major US antitrust case and won’t have to break off WhatsApp or Instagram

Challenge to Meta could have forced it to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, but judge ruled company did not hold social networking monopolyMeta defeated a major challenge to its business on Tuesday when a US judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.The case, brought by the US Federal Trade Commission, could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, with the former FTC chair accusing the company of operating a “buy or bury” scheme against nascent competitors. The tech giant bought WhatsApp for $19bn in 2014. Losing either the image-based social network, which generates an estimated half of Meta’s revenue, or the world’s most popular messaging app could have done existential damage to Meta’s empire. Continue reading...

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last month Meta prevails in historic FTC antitrust case, won't have to break off WhatsApp, Instagram

Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking

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last month The world’s digital empires are jostling for power – in Europe, we can’t afford to be useful idiots | Thierry Breton

The EU is under US pressure to unravel its hard-won online safety laws. We must not give inProtecting our digital sovereignty is crucial. The challenge is why European decision makers are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday at the behest of the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron. As individuals, we spend four to five hours a day accessing the internet via our smartphones and other devices, from social networks to online shopping to AI assistants. It is essential, therefore, that we have control over how the digital space is organised, structured and regulated.Europe has already set to work. Between 2022 and 2024, EU digital laws were adopted by an overwhelming majority of MEPs and unanimously by all member states. The Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the Data Act and the AI Act form the common foundation protecting our children, citizens, businesses and democracies from all kinds of abuses in the information space. These four major la...

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