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Democrats preview how they’d go after the Ticketmaster settlement if they regain power

A handful of Democrats called an unofficial hearing on Capitol Hill Monday to slam the Department of Justice’s “trivial” and “pathetic” settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, previewing how they might go after Trump administration antitrust deals if they win back congressional power in November.

While the DOJ settlementwith Live Nation, which came one week into trial and with a promise of up to $280 million, received copious pushback, Democrats don’t at the moment have the power in either chamber to set committee agendas. That meant that Monday’s so-called shadow hearing looked different than most official proceedings. Instead of sitting at the elevated seats behind the dais, the lawmakers sat at tables below, eye level with witnesses including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of the AGs continuing the fight against Live Nation-Ticketmaster, ousted Trump administration antitrust official Roger Alford, and several entertainment industry players, including a member of the band...

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Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit PaaS platform Railway says Google temporarily suspended its account on Wednesday without cause, inducing a major outage. Railway automates code deployment by taking a GitHub repo and doing all the work needed to get

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What CISOs need to know about AI audit logs | TechTarget

AI is reshaping the application landscape, seemingly overnight. A recent Google Cloud survey of 3,466 senior business leaders found 77% of organizations are increasing spending on generative AI, with the vast majority already reporting ROI on at least one GenAI use case. More than half have also deployed agentic

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Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21

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140 systems, 30 AI initiatives, 2-years: Inside Air India’s digital reinvention

As India’s aviation industry is undergoing one of its most ambitious reinventions, Air India’s transformation stands out for its scale, speed, and operational complexity. In less than three years, the airline has modernised more than 140 enterprise systems, migrated to a 100% cloud-native infrastructure, launched award-winning digital consumer

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Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

What CISOs need to know about AI audit logs | TechTarget

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21

140 systems, 30 AI initiatives, 2-years: Inside Air India’s digital reinvention