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By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens -Hackers have compromised several different companies’ Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and experts who have examined the campaign. Among the victims was the California-based Cyberhaven, a data protection company that confirmed the breach in a statement …

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By Raphael Satter (Reuters) – A U.S. law against Chinese-owned TikTok evokes the censorship regimes put in place by the United States’ authoritarian enemies, free-speech advocates told the Supreme Court on Friday. In an amicus filing, PEN America, Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, and the Free Press urged the country’s highest court to strike …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court has halted enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that requires corporate entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners to the U.S. Treasury Department ahead of a deadline for most companies to do so. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated late …

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(Reuters) -U.S.-based utility Duke Energy said on Friday it had filed a plan with the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) to recover about $1.1 billion in direct costs associated with the company’s emergency activation and response to hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton. Severe storms this year forced major U.S. utilities to shut down or slow …

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By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) – U.S. tech investor Cathie Wood is calling on Donald Trump’s incoming administration to boost economic growth and policy certainty by backdating promised corporate and personal tax cuts to Jan. 1, 2025, she told Reuters. A laggard in recent years, Wood’s flagship ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund has surged 17% since Trump’s …

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(Reuters) -Tech and growth stocks dragged Wall Street’s main indexes lower on Friday, at the end of an upbeat holiday-shortened week that was driven by expectations around a traditionally strong period for markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.95%, the S&P 500 was down 1.33% and the Nasdaq Composite briefly was down 1.72%. COMMENTS: …

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By Shariq Khan NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices settled more than 1% higher on Friday and recorded a weekly gain in low trading volume ahead of year-end, buoyed by a larger-than-expected drawdown from U.S. crude inventories last week. Brent crude futures rose 91 cents, or 1.2%, to settle at $74.17 per barrel. U.S. West Texas …

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By AJ Vicens (Reuters) – U.S. officials have added a ninth telecommunications company to the list of entities compromised by a sweeping Chinese-linked cyberespionage operation known as Salt Typhoon, a top White House official said Friday.  Anne Neuberger, the U.S. deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters on a call that …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a whistleblower lawsuit accusing Swiss drugmaker Novartis of paying illegal kickbacks to doctors to induce them to promote its blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya. In a 3-0 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the whistleblower Steven Camburn …

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