Aug 04 Trump’s demand for U.S. cut of a TikTok deal is unprecedented By Tali Arbel, Associated Press President Trump’s demand that the U.S. government get a cut of Microsoft buying TikTok is the latest unprecedented scenario in an unprecedented situation. Continue reading
Aug 03 Microsoft confirms talks seeking to buy U.S. arm of TikTok By Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press Microsoft is confirming that it is in talks with Chinese company ByteDance to acquire the U.S. arm of its popular video app TikTok and has discussed with President Donald Trump his concerns about security and censorship. Continue reading
Aug 02 Pompeo says Trump to take broad action on Chinese software By Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press President Donald Trump plans to take action on a what he sees as a broad array of national security risks presented by software connected to the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. Continue reading
Jul 29 Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts By Associated Press Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site. Continue reading
Jul 20 WATCH: Tech experts testify how the pandemic exposed outdated federal IT systems By Candice Norwood and Lisa Marie Pane, Kelli Kennedy, Ed White, Associated Press Lawmakers will hear from four technology experts examining the need for the U.S. government to modernize legacy IT systems. Continue reading
Jul 15 Apple wins EU court case over $15 billion in claimed taxes By Associated Press The EU Commission had ordered Apple to pay for gross underpayment of tax on profits across the European bloc from 2003 to 2014. Continue reading
Jul 08 Facebook civil rights audit finds ‘serious setbacks’ marred progress By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press The audit recommends that Facebook build a “civil rights infrastructure” into every aspect of the company, as well as a “stronger interpretation” of existing voter suppression policies and more concrete action on algorithmic bias. Continue reading
Jun 17 Trump proposes measure rolling back tech company protections By Michael Balsamo, Marcy Gordon, Associated Press The Justice Department is proposing that Congress roll back legal protections for online platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter that generally could not be held legally responsible for what people post on the sites. Continue reading
Jun 11 Microsoft joins Amazon, IBM in pausing face scans for police By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM. Continue reading
May 19 Google says it won’t build AI tools for oil and gas drillers By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon. Continue reading