
Google loses appeal against record €4.1bn EU fine over Android
A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."

A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."

The Treasury Department said the investment lineup for Trump Accounts includes ETFs from State Street, BlackRock and Vanguard.
READ THE FILE ›Charlie Javice, founder of Frank, was convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase. Adam Gray/Bloomberg/Getty Images JPMorgan must continue covering convicted fraudster Charlie Javice's legal fees, a judge ruled. Javice, convicted of defrauding JPMorgan, faces seven years in prison. Another judge this week denied a request to remove her ankle m
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The day before President Donald Trump walked back his tariff policy turned out to be one of his busiest days of 2025 for stock buying.
READ THE FILE ›Proposed campus becomes the latest casualty of growing backlash to the facilities in the US
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The Deutsche Bundesbank published the auction result for a reopened Federal bond issue on July 1 via its federal-securities press release page. The result figures were issued as an accompanying PDF notice; the feed carried no yield or allotment detail.
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Alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to the U.S. over hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Peter Stokes, 19, an alleged Scattered Spider member known online as “Bouquet,” has been extradited from Finland to the U.S. to face hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Prosecutors say he took part in mu
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After gaining a foothold in thousands of Fortinet firewalls, the attackers are starting to monetize that access, and are also piling on a Nextcloud zero-day bug.
READ THE FILE ›Microsoft's Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2026-32208, a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Entra ID, was revised on July 1. Per MSRC, the update corrected the CVE description and title and is an informational change only.
READ THE FILE ›Cisco PSIRT published its July 1 advisory bundle covering CVE-2026-20191, a Catalyst Center arbitrary file read vulnerability rated High with a CVSS base score of 7.5, and a set of ClamAV vulnerabilities affecting Cisco products (CVE-2026-20216, CVE-2026-20213, CVE-2026-20214, CVE-2026-20215, CVE-2026-20217, CVE-2026-20243 and CVE-2026-20
READ THE FILE ›Per the NVD entry published June 30, CVE-2025-36372 affects IBM Db2 11.5.0 through 11.5.9 and 12.1.0 through 12.1.4 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, including Db2 Connect Server. The flaw could disclose sensitive information to an authenticated user from the monitoring and event tables and is rated CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM.
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A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."
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Moody’s Germany fined EUR 2,145,000 for misreporting to ESMA 02 July 2026 Press Releases Securities Financing Transactions Supervision Trade Repositories The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has fined Moody’s Deutschland GmbH (Moody’s Germany) a total of EUR 2,145,000,
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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) was indicted by a grand jury in connection with an investigation over alleged threats she made against New Orleans officials, former Judge Laurie White confirmed Thursday. “The grand jury has returned an indictment, it is now a criminal matter,” White, who was appointed as a special prosecutor in
READ THE FILE ›Justice Department Sues California Over Glock Ban, Handgun Roster Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times , The Justice Department (DOJ) on July 1 sued California over its ban on "machinegun convertible pistols" and its "handgun roster." A Glock handgun and two magazines in a file photograph. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo The law ban
READ THE FILE ›Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Sues Trump, Admin Officials Over Allegedly Vindictive Investigations Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times , Former CIA Director John Brennan is seeking a court order requiring the Trump administration to retain records related to allegedly vindictive investigations into him and his involvement in probing
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Trump said in June that the U.S. taking an ownership stake in AI giants would be "a beautiful thing" and make American public "partners in this revolution."
READ THE FILE ›The U.S. government has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos. But there's still no clarity about the rules that will govern future AI model releases.
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'Something Has Gone Completely Wrong': Palantir's Alex Karp Goes Ballistic On OpenAI, Anthropic On Wednesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp delivered a blistering critique of frontier AI labs, accusing them of having an "effing insane" business model that leaves enterprises paying escalating token costs for limited value while risking their prop
READ THE FILE ›BBC News reported on July 1 that Anthropic says the US has lifted the export ban on its advanced AI tools, after Fable and Mythos were abruptly suspended in June over concerns they could be used by hackers. CNBC's coverage states the Trump administration lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and the Wall Street Journal re
READ THE FILE ›CNBC reported on July 1 that MGX closed one of the biggest AI funds ever at $49 billion. Per CNBC, MGX is a backer of major AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, and also backed Elon Musk's xAI prior to its merger with SpaceX. The close adds a substantial new pool of capital behind the frontier labs MGX already holds.
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