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NEW YORK — C-SPAN said Wednesday that it had reached a deal to have its three channels air on YouTube TV and Hulu’s live television feed, ending a dispute that had led to a revenue squeeze for the public affairs network in the cord-cutting era.The network said the streaming services would pay the same fee as cable and satellite companies, roughly 87 cents a year per subscriber, and that C-SPAN would continue its no-advertising policy on television.Congress involved itself in the issue, passing a resolution this spring calling on the services’ parent companies — Alphabet for YouTube and Disney for…

The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to terminate the legal status and work permits of nearly 270,000 Venezuelan migrants enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program, urging them to self-deport from the U.S.The announcement marked the latest effort by the Trump administration to revoke humanitarian protections granted to hundreds of thousands of migrants from countries plagued by political turmoil, war and other crises, making them eligible for potential deportation.Unless blocked in court, the move by the Department of Homeland Security will terminate the legal protections of Venezuelans enrolled in a TPS program created in 2021 by the Biden administration. Homeland…

A federal jury determined on Wednesday that Alphabet’s Google must pay $425 million in a class action lawsuit that accused it of continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google account, a spokesperson for the plaintiffs’ lawyer said. The verdict comes after a trial in the federal court in San Francisco over allegations that Google over an eight-year period accessed users’ mobile devices to collect, save, and use their data, violating privacy representations under its Web & App Activity setting . The consumers had been seeking more than $31 billion in damages.The…

[SINGAPORE] Aviation giant GE Aerospace on Wednesday (Sep 3) announced plans to invest US$75 million across its Asia-Pacific (Apac) maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and component repair facilities, through the end of 2025. Its Singapore and Malaysia facilities are set to enjoy a “significant portion” of the investment. The Republic is host to the company’s largest component repair site, which manages 60 per cent of its global repair volume, and Malaysia features GE Aerospace’s flagship overhaul site in Asia.The announcement came as part of an event on “Advancing MRO for a Resilient Aerospace Industry in Asia-Pacific” hosted in Singapore by…

To attract younger customers, heartland merchants are experimenting with Instagram reels of electric fans and passport-style loyalty cards, in collaboration with Nanyang Polytechnic students.These were the winning ideas in this year’s Heartland Innovation Challenge, which ran from April till the award ceremony on Aug 29. Held annually since 2021 by the Federation of Merchants’ Associations, Singapore (FMAS), the challenge provides a platform for students and heartland enterprises to co-develop prototypes of business solutions. This year, 14 heartland enterprises took part. Each was paired with two teams, comprising a mix of students from Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Business Management and School of Communication…

Wall Street steadied itself after Alphabet and other technology stocks rose.The S&P 500 added 0.5% Wednesday and broke the two-day losing skid it’s been on since setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1%.Google’s parent company was one of the strongest forces lifting the market after avoiding some of the worst-case scenarios in an antitrust case. Also helping to steady Wall Street was the bond market, where yields eased following a weaker-than-expected update on the U.S. job market. A day earlier, climbing yields worldwide raised the pressure on the stock…

There is “considerably more doubt” over when future interest rate cuts can take place, the governor of the Bank of England has said.Andrew Bailey told a committee of MPs that the risks around inflation had gone up and he was “more concerned” about weakness in the labour market. Bank staff projections expect the main consumer prices index measure of inflation to rise to 4% this year – double the 2% target rate – from its current level of 3.8%. Food prices are proving the main driver currently, with part of the increases blamed on government tax rises on employers.On the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and Mongolian President Ukhnagiin Khurelsukh (not seen) get together for a trilateral meeting in Beijing, China on September 2, 2025.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesRussia and China on Tuesday signed a legally binding deal to build the long-delayed Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, deepening commercial ties in what is likely to be seen as a defiant signal to the West.Alexei Miller, the chief executive of Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom, told Russian news agencies that a memorandum of understanding had been signed on the construction of the new…

Amazon is ending a program that let Prime members share free shipping benefits with people outside their household.Instead, Amazon is encouraging users who don’t live with the account holder to pay for their own Prime subscription, offering them a one-year subscription for $14.99.Amazon last raised its Prime membership fee in 2022, when it increased to $139 from $119. By ending the Prime sharing program, called Prime Invitee, the company is nudging users who don’t live with a Prime member to subscribe to their own Prime membership.”The Invitee program, which enabled sharing of the Prime shipping benefit only, is being phased…

New research from Osterman and Silverfort reveals that although nearly 70 percent of organizations believe their identity defenses are ‘mature’ there is a worrying gap between perception and reality. This comes against a rising tide of identity threats, 72.1 percent of identity leaders report that the threat level of identity-related attacks has increased or remained unchanged in the past year. The most significant jumps include AI-powered attacks, ransomware-based attacks, and social engineering of desk staff to reset credentials or MFA factors (up 14.3 percent). Nearly every organization surveyed (93.7 percent) is concerned about account takeover due to compromised credentials in…