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Audio player loading… France's data regulator has fined Google €150 million and Facebook €60 million for violating EU privacy rules. The fines relate to how Google and Facebook present users with options around accepting or rejecting cookies. The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) argues that the American tech giants make it too difficult for users to successfully avoid agreeing to the terms. Facebook's Irish subsidiary is on the hook for €60 million while Google's larger sum is split across €90 million for its US operation and €60 million for its Irish equivalent. Tea and a biscuit Cookie notifications are an ever-present facet of life for EU internet users and companies have devised strategies for getting users to accept the terms, often at a cost to their online privacy. "We are reviewing the authority's decision and remain committed to working with relevant authorities," a spokesperson for Facebook said. "Our cookie … [Read more...] about France hits Google and Facebook with major fines for using cookie trackers

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine on Monday dismissed the U.S. State Department’s withdrawal of the families of U.S. embassy staff in Kyiv as “premature” given the lack of “drastic change” in tensions between the country and Russia. The State Department announced it would withdraw the families of staffers and encourage private American citizens in Ukraine to leave because of an alleged imminent threat of invasion of the country by Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a decade ago, in 2014, and continues to colonize Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula to this day. The Ukrainian government also accuses Moscow of being heavily involved in the ongoing war in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, which the Kremlin insists is a civil war that has nothing to do with it. Concern for Ukraine escalated last week after President Joe Biden announced that his administration would not intervene in the event of Russia committing a “minor incursion” into Ukraine and appearing resigned to Russian leader Vladimir Putin … [Read more...] about Confused Ukraine Calls Biden Diplomatic Pullout ‘Premature,’ ‘Excessive’

Further Reading Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022 Intel hasn’t said much about its upcoming Arc dedicated GPUs since announcing their branding and a handful of architectural details a few months ago, but recent leaks have given us some indications of what we can expect when it comes to performance and to the GPUs that Intel is planning for laptops later this year. Of the leaks, the one about the laptop Arc models is more concrete. A slide originally leaked on Twitter outlines a total of five different GPU models for laptops, ranging from a couple of slow-but-better-than-integrated options at the bottom all the way to a potential high-end GeForce or Radeon competitor. The best of the GPUs includes 512 of Intel’s GPU execution units (EUs) attached to 16 GB of 16 Gbps video memory using a 256-bit interface; that wide a memory interface and that much memory suggests a high-end GPU that’s trying to compete with GeForce 3070- and 3080-series … [Read more...] about Leaked specs for Intel’s still-elusive Arc laptop GPUs include up to 16 GB of RAM

OnePlus has started rolling out a new update for its OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro smartphones. The update is rolling out for the device outside the China region and it brings several new updates, features and bug fixes to the smartphones. The software version carries a label C.44 and includes a January 2022 security patch as well. According to the official blog post on the OnePlus Community page, the update will be available for OP9 --IN LE2111_11_C.44, NA LE2115_11_C.44, EU LE2113_11_C.44 and OnePlus 9 Pro IN LE2121_11_C.44, NA LE2125_11_C.44 and EU LE2123_11_C.44 versions of the phones. In terms of new additions, the C.44 update includes desktop icon optimisation with improved textures and brings new materials, lights and layers to them. The update also improves the system power consumption to offer better battery life on both devices. Apart from a few changes mentioned above, the update also brings improvements to the fingerprint scanner, address stutter and … [Read more...] about OnePlus 9 Pro and OnePlus 9 starts receiving January 2022 update in global markets, bringing new features, bug fixes and more