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Tanker trucks are parked near the entrance of Colonial Pipeline Company Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. Several gas stations in the Southeast reported running out of fuel, primarily because of what analysts say is unwarranted panic-buying among drivers, as the shutdown of a major pipeline by hackers entered its fifth day. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Colonial Pipeline restarts operations days after major hack

Colonial Pipeline restarts operations days after major hack
Tanker trucks are parked near the entrance of Colonial Pipeline Company Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. Several gas stations in the Southeast reported running out of fuel, primarily because of what analysts say is unwarranted panic-buying among drivers, as the shutdown of a major pipeline by hackers entered its fifth day. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Facebook-backed digital currency project Diem shifts to US
FILE - In this March 29, 2018, file photo is the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. A once-ambitious Facebook-backed digital currency project - formerly known as Libra, now called Diem - is shifting operations from Switzerland to the U.S. and said it plans to launch a cryptocurrency tied to the U.S. dollar later in 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Tesla to stop accepting Bitcoin for car payments
FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. Electric car maker Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 citing environmental concerns. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Crash, arrest draw more scrutiny of Tesla Autopilot system
Biden signs order to beef up federal cyber defenses
President Joe Biden delivers remarks about COVID vaccinations in the South Court Auditorium at the White House, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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The 120 sq. meters (1,300 sq. feet) stone house where the Nobel-winning scientist couple Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie spent vacation and weekends from 1904-1906 in Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, on the south-west outskirts of Paris, France, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Poland's prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki says he's given instructions for the government to buy 790,000 euro house in France, and said on Twitter Tuesday that the house, is a
Poland wants to buy Marie Curie's vacation house in France
FILE - In this April 12, 2021, file photo, health worker collects nasal swab samples at a COVID-19 testing center in Hyderabad, India. The World Health Organization said Monday, May 10, that a worrisome variant was first detected in India may spread more easily. Scientists are still trying to figure out if it resulted in the terrifying surge of infections in the nation, and looking to see if this could this happen elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)
Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode
FILE - In this Nov.4, 2017 file photo, the logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is seen during the 39th session of the General Conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
Beyond vaccines, UNESCO wants more global science shared
In this Saturday, April 24, 2021, photo, a clothing shop clerk wearing a protective mask waits for customers at the Ramadan bazaar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced Monday that the whole country will be placed under a near lockdown for about a month but all economic sectors will be allowed to operate. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
The Latest: N Korea again claims no coronavirus infections
Emergency program to give people $50 off internet bill
FILE - In this Friday June 5, 2020, file photo, fourth-grader Sammiayah Thompson, left, and her brother, third-grader Nehemiah Thompson, work outside in their yard on laptops provided by their school system for distant learning in Hartford, Conn. Americans can begin applying for $50 off their internet bill on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Judge rejects plea deal for darknet child porn purveyor
UK foreign secretary calls for cooperation on cybersecurity
Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, at Downing Street in London, Monday, May 3, 2021. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Pool Photo via AP)
Amazon wins EU court fight over $300 million tax ruling
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, the internet trader Amazon logo is seen behind barbed wire at the company's logistic center in Rheinberg, Germany. A European Union court annulled Wednesday, May 12, 2021 a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between the Luxembourg government and Amazon amounted to illegal state support. The Commission's decision related to Luxembourg's tax treatment of two companies in the Amazon group, Amazon EU and Amazon Europe Holding Technologies. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
Army of fake fans boosts China's messaging on Twitter
(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records
FILE - In this April 2, 2021, file photo, Washington Metropolitan Police Department chief Robert Contee speaks during a news conference in Washington. Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia's hacking of federal agencies and meddling in U.S. politics has mostly overshadowed a worsening digital scourge with a far broader wallop: crippling and dispiriting extortionary ransomware attacks by cybercriminal mafias. All the while, ransomware gangsters have become more brazen and cocky as they put more and more lives and livelihoods at risk. This week, one syndicate threatened to make available to local criminal gangs data they say they stole from the Washington, D.C., metro police on informants. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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German watchdog bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp data
FILE - This Friday, March 10, 2017 file photo shows the WhatsApp communications app on a smartphone, in New York. A German privacy regulator banned Facebook on Tuesday May 11, 2021, from gathering data on WhatsApp users, citing an update to its privacy policy that breaches stringent European data protection rules by allowing access to a lot more information on the chat app's users. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
Edmunds: Five new EVs to wait for in 2021
This photo provided by GMC shows the GMC Hummer EV, an electric pickup which will relaunch the Hummer brand. With lots of off-road potential and 1,000 horsepower on tap, the Hummer EV certainly makes a bold statement. (Courtesy of GMC via AP)
2 plead guilty in case highlighting China's online control
Wei Xiuwen, mother of Chen Mei, chats with Cai Jianli, father of Cai Wei outside a courthouse after attending their children's court cases in Beijing, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Two amateur computer coders taken by police from their Beijing homes last year were standing trial Tuesday in a case that illustrates the Chinese government's growing online censorship and heightened sensitivity to any deviation from the official narrative on its COVID-19 response. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Army of fake fans online boosts China's global messaging
FILE - In this April 20, 2021 file photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech via video for the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference, in Beijing. A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that the rise of Chinese diplomats on Twitter has been powered by an army of apparently fake accounts that have retweeted their posts tens of thousands of times. The move onto Western social media comes as China wages a war for influence – both at home and abroad -- on the internet, which President Xi Jinping has called
FBI names pipeline cyberattackers as company promises return
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company in Linden, N.J. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement late Friday that it
2 on trial as China enforces online control amid pandemic
Wei Xiuwen, left, mother of Chen Mei, and Cai Jianli, center, father of Cai Wei stand outside a courthouse as they wait for their children's court cases in Beijing, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Two amateur computer coders taken by police from their Beijing homes last year were standing trial Tuesday in a case that illustrates the Chinese government's growing online censorship and heightened sensitivity to any deviation from the official narrative on its COVID-19 response. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
EXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2016 file photo vehicles are seen near Colonial Pipeline in Helena, Ala. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement late Friday that it
NTSB: Tesla owner got into driver's seat before deadly crash
FILE - This Sunday, May 9, 2021 file photo shows vehicles at a Tesla location in Littleton, Colo. According to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, home security camera footage shows that the owner of a Tesla got into the driver's seat of the car shortly before a deadly crash in suburban Houston. But the preliminary report on the crash that killed two men doesn't explain why police found no one behind the wheel of the car, which burst into flames after crashing about 550 feet (170 meters) from the owner's home. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Pentagon reconsidering huge JEDI cloud-computing contract
FILE - In this March 27, 2008, file photo, the Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington. Officials say the Pentagon is reconsidering how to make a massive shift to cloud computing, suggesting the possibility that it could scrap a contract potentially worth $10 billion. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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