Senator Tom Cotton introduces a bill to mandate that AI chip makers use geo-tracking tech to comply with export rules, taking effect six months after it passes
Senator Tom Cotton's legislation seeks to “prevent advanced American chips from falling into the hands of adversaries like Communist China.”
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018
Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation X: @carnage4life , @tonytassell , @michaelxpettis , @eleanorolcott , @hsu...
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential ele...
China plans to launch Strong Nation Transport, a ride-hailing app to rival Didi, initially targeting Communist party members and government employees
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Chinese internet censors suspend thousands of WeChat accounts and remove posts after a rare protest in central Beijing against “dictator and traitor Xi Jinping”
Banners hung from bridge call for leader's removal ahead of Communist party congress
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Open App Markets Act, which would allow app sideloading and let developers use their own in-app payment systems
in the face of millions in Big Tech lobbying and assaults from all the think tanks they pay — would have been unimaginable three years ago. Probably even two years ago. You love to see it. Alex Harman...
When trying to address problems that social media may cause for young people, lawmakers focus on Facebook and largely ignore TikTok, which most teens use
YouTube is the undisputed master of this strategy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : Of, for that matter, the rest of the media where we have a very long and well documente...
China's Sichuan Province closes crypto mines, following Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan; an estimated 90% of China's mining capacity has now been shut down
reiterating 2017 banking ban Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : China's renewed crypto crackdown wipes $400 billion off the market as bitcoin slides Sean Murray / thegamer.com : Bitcoin Crackdown In China Leads T...
A Pentagon audit from May cleared the use of two DJI drones built for government use, after the Interior Dept. grounded its fleet of China-made drones in Jan.
the Pentagon now says they're safe David MacQuarrie / DroneDJ : Pentagon audit clears at least two DJI drones Matt O'brien / Associated Press : Gov't use of Chinese drones in limbo as Congress weighs ...