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Smaller U.S. businesses fear freeze from EU privacy ruling

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Julia Fioretti SAN FRANCISCO/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. businesses from online coupon company RetailMeNot Inc to security software company Symantec Corp said a European change to rules governing transatlantic personal data transfers would hurt U.S. companies and called for a quick fix. An EU court on Tuesday struck down a deal to let U.S. and European companies easily transfer personal data between continents, leaving some U.S. companies

Opinion: Google has lost control of Android

Remember Stagefright, the Android vulnerability that affected nearly a billion phones running Android versions from 2.2 to 5.1? Well, you may have heard that it’s back – and it’s even nastier than before. Where the first version of the vulnerability could be accessed via an MMS message, Stagefright 2.0 can travel via specially adapted and apparently innocuous MP3/MP4 files – and those files can be stored inside apps, so just

Karl Pilkington is surprised you're all still tweeting

You’re unlikely to meet anyone more brutally honest than Karl Pilkington – or better travelled. After Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant sent him around the world for An Idiot Abroad, the comedy figure is now globetrotting on his own terms in The Moaning of Life, and he’s actually… enjoying it? We got an early preview of the new season, which kicks off October 13 on Sky 1. The good news

Jobless claims fall to near a 42-year low

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits fell more than expected to near a 42-year low last week, pointing to ongoing tightening in the labor market despite the recent slowdown in hiring. The data released on Thursday provides an upbeat check on the health of the labor market after last week’s monthly employment report increased doubts the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by the end of