Chip designer ARM suspends business with Huawei
Chip designer ARM has suspended business with Huawei, threatening the Chinese company’s ability to create its own chips. BBC News reports that ARM employees have been instructed to halt “all active...
View ArticleBig tech companies to pay a 3% tax of total annual revenues to the France...
Big tech companies will now be required to pay a 3% tax of total annual revenues to the French government after a Bill targeting GAFA companies — an acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon —...
View ArticleCold reception to Facebook’s Libra, makes it willing to delay its...
Facebook is willing to delay its entrance into the cryptocurrency market to work with regulators, Facebook executive David Marcus said in prepared remarks ahead of Congressional hearings on Libra this...
View ArticleDramatic Spike in Chinese trademark filings Alarms USPTO staffers
Huge numbers of Chinese citizens are seeking trademarks in the U.S., flooding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications that officials say appear to be rife with false information. In...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s surveillance act RICA unconstitutional, inconsistent finds Court
The South Gauteng High Court has found that parts of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information (RICA) Act are unconstitutional. In April 2017,...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Hewlett Foundation, MasterCard, and other launch CyberPeace Institute
Microsoft, Hewlett Foundation, MasterCard, and several other unnamed major corporations and philanthropic institutions have formed an independent non-profit organisation called the CyberPeace Institute...
View ArticleTwitter asks all staff to work from home to slow spread of coronavirus
Twitter Inc.has asked all of its employees to work from home in order to slow the spread of coronavirus. In a blog statement today, the company wrote Beginning today, we are strongly encouraging all...
View ArticleSen. Elizabeth Warren, 4 other US senators write follow-up letter to ICANN to...
In a follow-up letter to the January 16, 2020 missive signed by Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, and Anna Eshoo, the five US senators have given reasons why they urge ICANN to block...
View ArticleCompanies pull the plug on facial recognition, but major issues linger
In response to protest calling for police reform around the country, some of the biggest names in tech are taking a closer look at their facial recognition technologies. In recent weeks, protests...
View ArticleGoogle scraps plan for ‘Isolated Region’ cloud services in China
Google has abandoned plans to offer a major new cloud service in China and other politically sensitive countries due in part to concerns over geopolitical tensions and the pandemic, according to two...
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