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France says it will block development of Facebook's Libra digital currency in Europe because it threatens the "monetary sovereignty" of governments.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Libra posed financial risks and could be open to abuse.

However, he did not spell out how France could keep Libra out of the 28-member

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Huawei's chief executive has proposed selling its current 5G know-how to a Western firm as a way to address security concerns voiced by the US and others about its

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A firm that facilitated a phone subscription scam has received a record £600,000 fine from a UK watchdog.

Veoo provided billing and messaging platforms to firms which were signing

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Google's Sidewalk Labs's plans to build a smart city "from the internet up" in a disused waterfront area of Toronto contain too much "tech for tech's sake", an independent panel has said.

It also accused the company of being too vague about what it planned to do.

Some of the planned innovations were "irrelevant or

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Police in 10 countries have arrested 281 people they suspect of carrying out large-scale money-transfer scams.

The FBI co-ordinated the raids over several months against groups of people suspected of

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