Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Juniper Networks in an all-cash deal valued at about $14 billion, which is anticipated to double HPE’s networking business ByThe Associated Press January 10, 2024, 8:12 AM FILE-An exterior view of Juniper Networks headquarters is shown in Sunnyvale, Calif., in this Jan. 30, 2007 file photo. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Juniper Networks in an all-cash deal valued at about…

MELBOURNE, Australia — X Corp., the owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed its global trust and safety staff by 30% including an 80% reduction in the number of safety engineers since billionaire Elon Musk took over in 2022, Australia’s online safety watchdog said on Thursday. Australia’s eSafety Commission, which describes itself as the world’s first government agency dedicated to…

WASHINGTON — The IRS is still too slow in processing amended tax returns, answering taxpayer phone calls and resolving identity theft cases, according to an independent watchdog within the agency. While there is “cautious optimism” for an agency that has excavated itself from tens of millions of backlogged tax returns with new federal funding, the report states “the IRS has a tall mountain to climb…

LONDON — Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday he will introduce measures to overturn the convictions of more than 900 post office branch managers who were wrongly accused of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system. Sunak said the scandal, which saw hundreds of postmasters falsely convicted of stealing money because Post Office computers wrongly showed that funds were missing from their…

A legal adviser to the European Union’s top court says Google should pay a whopping fine in a long-running antitrust case ByThe Associated Press January 11, 2024, 6:14 AM FILE – The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company’s new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. A legal advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday that Google…

The U.S. for the first time has given the greenlight to almost a dozen exchange traded funds for bitcoins ByThe Associated Press January 11, 2024, 8:55 AM FILE – The Bitcoin logo appears on the display screen of a cryptocurrency ATM in Salem, N.H., Feb. 9, 2021. The U.S. for the first time has given the greenlight to almost a dozen exchange traded funds for…

US inflation edged up in December, fueled by food and housing prices, but many other costs rose only mildly ByThe Associated Press January 11, 2024, 8:34 AM WASHINGTON — US inflation edged up in December, fueled by food and housing prices, but many other costs rose only mildly. Read More

WASHINGTON — Higher energy and housing prices boosted overall U.S. inflation in December, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s drive to slow inflation to its 2% target will likely remain a bumpy one. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that overall prices rose 0.3% from November and 3.4% from 12 months earlier. Those gains exceeded the previous 0.1% monthly rise and the 3.1% annual…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s navy captured an oil tanker Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that only months earlier had seen its cargo of Iranian oil seized by the United States over sanctions linked to Tehran’s nuclear program, further escalating the tensions gripping the Mideast’s waterways. The vessel was previously known as the Suez Rajan when it was involved in a yearlong dispute…

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — John Walsh, advocate for missing children and longtime host of “America’s Most Wanted,” said he feels outmanned by criminals all the time – especially in the courtroom. “I say to myself, ‘My god, the lawyer for this dirtbag predator is smarter and more sophisticated than the cops are’,” the co-founder of the National Center for Missing & Exploited…