Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit with the largest ever fine against it for its business practices. A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered the company to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) following a two week trial earlier this year that found it had spent years lying to the public about
Google has been fined €403m (£345m) by the Republic of Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) over its handling of location data. The penalty – one of the largest of its kind imposed by the Irish watchdog authority – followed an inquiry launched into the tech giant six years ago, following complaints from several European consumer
A two Michelin-starred restaurant in Seoul has been fined for using ants as a dessert garnish. The owner of Evett in the South Korean capital was fined 15 million won (£8,144; $10,965), while the company operating the restaurant was fined 10 million won for violating the Food Sanitation Act, local media report. Ants are not
New Mexico’s Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client’s murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to “verify the factual claims and legal
Former Australia batter David Warner has been fined A$1,500 (£1,109) and ordered to have an interlock device fitted on his car after pleading guilty to drink-driving in Sydney in April. The 39-year-old’s blood alcohol reading was more than twice the legal limit as he failed a random breath test when driving his family home from
A person has been fined for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, a local official said. The incident happened earlier this month after someone sounded the alarm from onboard a vessel, which was sailing in a fjord in northwestern Svalbard – about 1,000 km (620 miles) from the
