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543 сюжетовTrump signs order allowing tax-free red-dyed diesel on highways
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday temporarily allowing off-road red-dyed diesel to be used for highway driving and deferring the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of 2026 without interest or penalties.…
Pope Leo XIV opens Vatican meeting on Francis' opening to remarried Catholics
Pope Leo XIV opened a weeklong, closed-door Vatican conference assessing the implementation of Pope Francis' 2016 document “The Joy of Love.” The text sparked controversy because it opened the door to letting civilly remarried Catholics rec…
Defense minister: arts, sports military service exemption to be cut and abolished
South Korea's defense minister said on Oct 7 that the goal is to gradually reduce the arts and sports military service exemption and ultimately abolish it, after controversy over remarks by Asian Games football gold medallists about the exe…
Ransomware attack on SoftBank unit's cloud affects 495 firms, municipalities
IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary, said part of its IDCF Cloud service was hit by unauthorized access that caused an outage from around 03:40 on October 7. The affected area is the East Japan Region 1, served by a data center in Shirakawa…
ASUS unveils Zenbook 14 UX3480 line with Intel, AMD or Qualcomm chips
ASUS announced the Zenbook 14 UX3480 series, a 14-inch laptop line that lets buyers choose between Intel Core Ultra series 3, AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors. PC Watch reported the models go on sale in Japan from Octob…
Kazakhstan considers blocking social media accounts of children under 16
Kazakhstan's government has prepared amendments restricting online platforms for users under 16, and Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said in a reply to a parliamentary inquiry that temporarily blocking social media accounts of children under…
Apple and LG Electronics jointly develop smart home devices under LG brand
Apple and LG Electronics are jointly developing smart home devices — a camera-equipped video doorbell, a smart door lock, a security camera and a smart temperature sensor and thermostat — to be sold under the LG brand, according to Bloomber…
South Korea unveils 1,000 trillion won green transition plan to 2035
South Korea announced a “Korean-style Green Transition” (K-GX) strategy on Oct 7, pledging about 1,000 trillion won over ten years to 2035 — 200 trillion won in fiscal support and more than 790 trillion won in climate finance through five p…
Moscow court fines Zoom 65.9 million rubles for repeat violation of Russian law
A Moscow court fined Zoom about 65.9 million rubles (65,936,494 rubles) for a repeat violation of Russian legislation on foreign internet companies, Interfax, Vedomosti and Kommersant reported. The case was heard under part 3 of article 13.…
South Korea's Lee orders CPTPP talks restarted from the beginning amid farm concerns
President Lee Jae-myung instructed at a cabinet meeting on Oct 6 that the government should not fix a conclusion on joining the CPTPP and should “restart dialogue from the beginning,” saying the pact's strategic value is cited alongside ver…
KCTU проголосует 7 октября по вопросу возвращения к социальному диалогу; совет готов к переговорам
Корейская конфедерация профсоюзов (민주노총) проведёт 85-ю внеочередную конференцию делегатов в 13:00 7 октября в KINTEX в Косяне для голосования по вопросу о вступлении в Экономический, социальный и трудовой совет (경사노위), что положило бы конец…
Nissui logistics unit outage halts shipments at 17 sites; unauthorized access suspected
Nissui said a system failure at its subsidiary Nissui Logistics has stopped inbound and outbound shipments at all 17 of the unit's warehouses. The company believes the cause was unauthorized access by a third party to a data center used by …
Акула из Пусана Букканги переплыла сеть и вернулась в канал; спасательная операция приостановлена
Акула по кличке Букканги, предположительно тёмная акула длиной около 3 м, переплыла большую сеть и около полудня 3 октября вернулась в искусственный канал в парке Пусанский порт Чинсу, на следующий день после того как вторая попытка вывести…
Russia proposes letting businesses register at an email address
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko said a draft law has been prepared that would allow legal entities to register a business using an address in a state email system for official correspondence instead of a physical address. He said th…
Turkey's Aselsan announces Astralink network of 198 low-orbit satellites
Aselsan CEO Ahmet Akyol said at the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya that Turkey is building Astralink, a low-orbit satellite constellation of 198 spacecraft, with the first launch planned within two years. Akyol said work be…
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days Begin With Discounts on Apple Macs, AirPods and iPads
Amazon's fall Prime Big Deal Days sale is live, with early discounts on Apple products including AirPods Pro 3 at $179.00, down from $249.00, AirPods Max 2 at $429.00, and about $200 off most M5 MacBook Air models. Outlets also reported all…
FT: EU weighs broad corporate levy to raise taxes on US tech groups
The European Commission is considering a new mechanism to raise more tax revenue from large US technology companies without singling them out as a separate category, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Under discussion is …
HIS says up to 627 customers' passport data may have leaked after Thai unit breach
HIS announced on October 7 that up to 627 customers' passport details may have leaked after unauthorized access to a file server at its Thai subsidiary, H.I.S. TOURS. The company said it detected the access in December 2025 and identified t…
Полиция Кореи начала официальное расследование связанных с ИИ хакерских атак на финансовые компании
Южнокорейская полиция преобразовала расследование серии связанных с ИИ хакерских атак на финансовые учреждения в официальное дело, выделив специальную группу из 28 сотрудников в составе четырёх команд. Утечки данных подтверждены в семи фина…
Финансовый регулятор Кореи распорядился провести полную проверку безопасности после утечек банковских данных
Председатель Комиссии по финансовым услугам (FSC) Ли Ок Вон 4 октября провёл в Сеуле экстренное совещание всего финансового сектора после того, как утечки клиентских данных распространились с крупных банков на небанковские кредитные организ…