Bloomberg News US Semiconductor Reporter Ian King discusses the latest TSMC earnings report and what lies ahead for the chip maker with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.
Bloomberg News US Semiconductor Reporter Ian King discusses the latest TSMC earnings report and what lies ahead for the chip maker with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.
Hedge funds turned the most bullish on Brent oil since April as unrest in Iran, OPEC’s fourth-biggest producer, revived risk premium in crude prices. Money managers increased their long-only stance on Brent crude by 85,496 lots to 208,461 lots in the week ended Jan. 13, the highest in nine months, data from ICE Futures Europe show. Long-only bets on West Texas Intermediate also rose to a five-mont...
Hedge funds turned the most bullish on Brent oil since April as unrest in Iran, OPEC’s fourth-biggest producer, revived risk premium in crude prices. Money managers increased their long-only stance on Brent crude by 85,496 lots to 208,461 lots in the week ended Jan. 13, the highest in nine months, data from ICE Futures Europe show. Long-only bets on West Texas Intermediate also rose to a five-month high, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Traders are closely watching nationwide protests across Iran and assessing the risk of US intervention that could disrupt the country’s roughly 3.3 million barrels-a-day of oil production. US President Donald Trump warned that the country’s regime would “pay hell” if protesters were killed and that he thinks it’s a good idea if US citizens evacuate from Iran. The scale of risk showed up clearest in options markets, with the skew toward bullish calls at one point turning the biggest for Brent futures since last summer and volatility is surging. The US president has since softened his rhetoric against Iran in the period not covered by this data, saying in a social media post on Friday that he respects the regime’s decision to cancel scheduled hangings of protesters.
Intel shares have soared heading into the firm’s earnings release on Jan. 22. But a Citi analyst and options traders believe INTC stock will push higher from here in 2026.
Intel shares have soared heading into the firm’s earnings release on Jan. 22. But a Citi analyst and options traders believe INTC stock will push higher from here in 2026.
The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna's Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, using, storing, or distributing the data. Anna's Archive is a shadow library and search engine for other shadow libraries that was launched in 2022. It archives books and other written materials and make...
The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna's Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, using, storing, or distributing the data. Anna's Archive is a shadow library and search engine for other shadow libraries that was launched in 2022. It archives books and other written materials and makes them available via torrents, and recently expanded its ambitions by scraping Spotify to make a 300TB copy of the most-streamed songs. Anna's Archive lost its .org domain a couple of weeks ago but remains online at other domains. Yesterday's ruling is in a case filed by OCLC, a nonprofit that operates the WorldCat library catalog on behalf of member libraries. OCLC alleged that Anna’s Archive “illegally hacked WorldCat.org” to steal 2.2TB of data. Read full article Comments
Qatar Hired UK PR Firm To Edit Wikipedia Page: Report Amid ongoing US probes into Wikipedia over alleged bias and foreign manipulation, sometimes framed as " Wikilaundering ," a new report has found that a PR company linked to Keir Starmer's communications chief has been accused of secretly manipulating Wikipedia pages to improve or neutralize clients' public images. The allegations add another th...
Qatar Hired UK PR Firm To Edit Wikipedia Page: Report Amid ongoing US probes into Wikipedia over alleged bias and foreign manipulation, sometimes framed as " Wikilaundering ," a new report has found that a PR company linked to Keir Starmer's communications chief has been accused of secretly manipulating Wikipedia pages to improve or neutralize clients' public images. The allegations add another thorn in the side for Wikipedia as migration to Elon Musk's Grokpedia continues. The Guardian cites an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) alleging that PR firm Portland Communications, founded by Tim Allan, commissioned secret page edits of Wikipedia pages for clients to restore or improve their image. A former Portland employee told TBIJ that Wikipedia edits were contracted out: "No one said, 'We should stop doing this.' The question was how we could keep doing it without getting caught." TBIJ's investigation focused on a network of 26 accounts that made edits, including those linked to Web3 Consulting, a firm operated by Radek Kotlarek. Some of the high-profile clients allegedly included the Qatar government. The edits reportedly involved shifting unfavorable details into philanthropy sections or replacing critical sources with more positive ones, particularly ahead of the 2022 World Cup. The Guardian noted that while Portland was founded by Allan, a former adviser to Tony Blair, in 2001, there is no indication that Allan personally made any of the edits. He sold most of his shares in 2012 and left the firm in 2019. A spokesperson for Portland said, "Portland does not have a relationship with the firm mentioned and has a policy of strict adherence to the guidelines on all social media platforms." A Portland employee added, "If anyone who worked here in the past did this, they were foolish. For sure nobody does it today." Portland denies any relationship with the contractor and says it adheres to platform rules. Former employees told TBIJ that Wik...