Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies are using the same loophole
The U.S. government forbids Nvidia from selling some of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips to customers in China. X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : America: you can't buy our Nvidia chips...
Angry constituents flood congressional offices with calls following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives about a possible ban
Tiktok is owned by an adversary of the US. But so is Microsoft, Meta, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and most of the other tech giants. … X: Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Some Congressional offices ha...
Sources: Google is in talks with ByteDance and Facebook to index and rank TikTok and Instagram videos
If you've ever tried searching on Google for one of those TikTok or Instagram videos all your friends are gushing about—such as sea shanties or the Renegade dance—you'll notice something. Tweets: @bys...
Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold
managed by obscure entities at the center of the stock market called clearinghouses — kicked in Thursday, forcing Robinhood to find emergency cash to continue to be able to trade.” $GME https://www.ny...
As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality, and may not prioritize Section 230 reform, but his antitrust approach is unclear
For the first time in years, US will have someone who likes evidence, governs using science, won't peddle quack theories and drugs, will fact check statements and accept fact check corrections, & will...
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough”
Home entertainment today … Dominic Rushe / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’ Bloomberg : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Under Siege After Facebook Scr...
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet
New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services Tweets: @martinsfp , @bakerluke , @amir , @jgriffiths , @madhumita29 , @...
Netflix says it has throttled its videos on AT&T's and Verizon's wireless networks for more than five years to protect users from exceeding data caps
This may come as a shock … Rob Attrell / MobileSyrup.com : Netflix has been throttling video streams, but plans to start giving users quality control Horia Ungureanu / Tech Times : Netflix Touts More ...
Sources: Google plans to launch a special China version of Google Play as early as this fall, marking its re-entry into China, compliance with censorship laws
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Apple to block apps like Twitter from scanning users' iPhones and iPads to see which other apps are installed
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