Skip to Content

Money

Tencent announces new limits on screen time as China increases crackdown on the gaming industry. This image taken on July 9 shows Tencent's game Honor of Kings in Shanghai

Tencent cracks down on screen time after Chinese state media says gaming is ‘spiritual opium’

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Tencent has announced new limits on the amount of time minors can spend playing the company’s online games, even as investors worry that China may extend its historic crackdown on the private sector to the gaming industry. Those fears were stoked Tuesday after Economic Information Daily — a business newspaper

Continue Reading
Nicola Zingaretti

Hackers block Italian Covid-19 vaccination booking system in ‘most serious cyberattack ever’

By Livia Borghese and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Hackers have attacked and blocked an Italian Covid-19 vaccination booking system, a source from Italy’s cybercrime police told CNN on Monday, marking the worst cyberattack the country’s health service has ever seen. An investigation has been opened into the “very serious” attack on the IT system of the

Continue Reading