Internet giant Google on Tuesday called out a series of surveillance software companies that it said were enabling the use of dangerous hacking tools, and urged the United States and its allies to do more to rein in the spyware industry. The industry has faced increasing scrutiny since the Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus spyware was found on the phones of various people globally, including human rights defenders. In a report on Tuesday, Google researchers said that while NSO is better known, there are dozens of smaller firms helping the proliferation of spy technology for malicious uses...

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It’s a new week, but if investors are still feeling whiplash from the last one, it’s understandable. The market also chose to focus on an uptick in jobless claims and positive inflation data, rather than the white-hot jobs report (one that so handily beat expectations it could have been seen as evidence growth and inflation are too high for any near-term rate cut)...