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Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally offer to arrange a pardon
A lawyer for Julian Assange told a London court Friday she was present when an ally of US President Trump offered to arrange a pardon for its WikiLeaks creator in return for inform...
Twitter will force key US political accounts adopt tighter account security
Twitter, that was recently targeted at a hacking campaign that compromised the balances of notable political figures and celebrities, has said that it was implementing increased se...
US says WeChat users will not be penalised
WeChat users will not face criminal or civil penalties if the United States bans the Chinese-owned messaging app through other activities a week, the Justice Department has said.
US charges seven in wide-ranging Chinese hacking effort
The US Justice Department has stated that it has charged five Chinese residents and two Malaysian businessmen in an extensive hacking effort which encompassed targets from video ga...
China state media outlet calls Nvidia’s Arm purchase ‘disturbing’
An op-ed in China’s state-backed Global Times news outlet has said US chipmaker Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of Arm Ltd from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp was R...
President Trump plans to nominate official for FCC amid social media push
President Trump, pressing for new social networking regulations, intends to nominate a senior government official for a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the W...
US offers to exempt employees and contractors from TikTok executive order
The US has offered to exclude from President Trump’s executive order transactions that involve TikTok workers and contractors performing”their regular job duties and re...
ByteDance picks Oracle as its partner in an attempt to save TikTok US
Oracle has announced that it might team up with ByteDance in order to maintain TikTok’s ability to continue operating in the United States, beating Microsoft in a deal struct...
High court in Ireland freezes probe into Facebook’s EU-US data flows
The Republic of Ireland’s High Court has temporarily frozen a probe by Facebook’s lead European Union regulator which threatened to stop the US social network giantR...
Google aims to run on carbon-free energy by 2030
Google intends to power its data centres and offices using only carbon-free power by 2030, its chief executive told Reuters, building on its previous aim of matching its energy use...
ByteDance drops TikTok’s US sale, to partner with Oracle
ByteDance abandoned the purchase price of TikTok from the US on Sunday to pursue a partnership with Oracle it hopes will save it a US prohibit when appeasing China’s authorit...
Nvidia’s deal for Arm sparks quick backlash in chip industry
Nvidia’s $40 billion agreement to acquire Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group is likely to meet strong resistance from Nvidia’s chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs...
Facebook removes posts linking Oregon wildfires to activists
Facebook has begun removing claims that the deadly wildfires in Oregon were started by various right-wing and right-wing groups, a spokesman for its social networking titan has sai...
TikTok: This is what happens next
On Thursday, President Trump stated that he does not plan to extend a deadline for ByteDance to market TikTok’s US business, with the process still mired in uncertainty and p...