Dutch privacy regulator fines Uber €825 million ($966 million) over automated driver suspensions
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) has hit Uber Technologies Inc. with an €825 million ($966 million) fine for deactivating driver accounts using fully automated systems without human oversight. The decision marks the second-largest penalty ever issued under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), trailing only the €1.2 billion fine levied against Meta in 2023. Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock GDPR Violations and A
TikTok to pay $400 million to settle US federal children's privacy lawsuit
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a 2024 federal lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging widespread violations of children's online privacy laws. The resolution marks one of the largest financial recoveries ever obtained under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), an historic 1998 federal statute designed to shield users under the age of 13 from unau
US bank investigating security incident following LockBit ransomware extortion claim
U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial banking institution in the United States, is currently investigating claims made by the prolific ransomware group LockBit that it breached the bank’s internal systems. The threat actors added the financial institution to their dark web leak site, establishing a September 4 deadline for extortion negotiations before threatening to release exfiltrated files. Extortion Deadline Without Proof-of-Possession Samples Unlike typical ransomware
Nutanix releases open-source MCP Server to enable governed AI operations across cloud infrastructure
Enterprise cloud software provider Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), enabling AI agents and developer environments to execute infrastructure management tasks using plain-language instructions. Editorial credit: Claudio Borquez Arias / Shutterstock The release bridges large language models (LLMs) and coding environments, including Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and VS Code, directly with Nutanix’
Oracle and AWS deepen multi-cloud alliance with global 22-region expansion of AI database service
Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration agreement, bringing Oracle AI Database@AWS to 22 global AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The geographic rollout, doubling down on their initial partnership launch, is paired with the general availability of new serverless and usage-based database capabilities designed to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and cloud migrations. Editorial credit: Tigarto / Sh
