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TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario’s electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more. “It looks like we’ve had a disturbance,” Todd Parcey recalls saying, in what proved to be a …

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp reached a content-supply deal with Facebook in Australia, the companies said on Tuesday, a step toward settling a dispute that saw the social media giant briefly shut down thousands of pages in the country. The agreement, terms of which were not disclosed, makes News Corp the first …