The US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the chip supply chain
Congressional hearings with tech CEOs and execs in the past few years have yielded no new laws amid partisan divides over issues like privacy and misinformation
Holding a hearing that humbles the most powerful business executives in the world is much easier than legislating. Tweets: @ceciliakang , @brandyzadrozny , @colincrowell , @nytpoli...
Regulators rush to catch up with DeFi startups and crypto-backed lenders like BlockFi, which now touts $10B+ in assets, 450K+ clients, and licenses in 28 states
The boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts is disrupting the banking industry and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up.
Two GOP lawmakers are pointing to previously unreleased emails to allege that Amazon unfairly used its influence in competing for Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract
Newly released emails show particular praise of Amazon among top Defense Department officials during the Trump administration …
Maryland and Montana have passed the nation's first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the DNA matching technique that found the Golden State Killer in 2018
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Analysis finds 24+ organizations that installed SolarWinds code, including Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware, Belkin, a CA hospital, and Kent State university
Sen. Ron Wyden says the US Treasury Department acknowledged that its email system used by senior leadership was breached by SolarWinds hackers beginning in July
a fact revealing how deeply Moscow burrowed into the Trump administration's networks. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Breaking News: The Russian hackers who targeted U.S. ag...
Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent
Analysis finds 24+ organizations that installed SolarWinds code, including Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware, Belkin, a CA hospital, and Kent State university
A Wall Street Journal analysis identified at least 24 organizations that installed software laced with malicious code by Russian hackers
Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent
President Trump downplayed a massive cyberattack on U.S. government departments and agencies and private companies on Twitter Saturday …
Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies
Good morning! This Wednesday, let's take a deep breath … Karl Bode / Techdirt : Stop Pretending The Trump GOP Genuinely Cares About Monopoly Power Reuters : U.S. House antitrust f...
After a 16-month probe, House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple enjoy “monopoly power” and suggest antitrust changes that could break them up
- After a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google …
Trump says he would not approve a TikTok deal unless ByteDance ceded its control, after ByteDance said it would retain an 80% stake
President Trump on Monday said that he would not approve a deal for TikTok if its Chinese owner did not fully sell its interest in the product …
In an open letter to CFIUS, Senator Josh Hawley says US should reject Oracle-ByteDance collaboration citing national security grounds and calls for a full sale
The deal is ‘completely unacceptable,’ Hawley says — Sen. Josh Hawley is publicly calling on the Treasury Department …
Inside the work of the DNC and RNC digital teams for the conventions: building a robust network, ensuring a livestream, producing a broadcast, and more
Making sure livestreams don't lag. Sending out remote video kits. Showing speakers how to avoid microphone mishaps. Tweets: @aaronemyers , @nytpolitics , @ericdavismiddvt , and @...
In discrimination case against Oracle, Labor Department lawyer says Secretary Eugene Scalia broke with normal practice in seeking a smaller settlement
New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @sruhle , @nytpolitics , @joshtpm , @dealbook , and @janemayernyer Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : A Labor Department lawyer says she faces ...
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, worth around $2M, four websites, and four Facebook pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS
that it claimed were FDA approved— across four Facebook pages to finance the terror group's operations, according to Homeland Security Investigations. 👉The sale of illicit items on...
Trump's executive order on social media is facing its first legal challenge, from the Center for Democracy and Technology, filed in DC's US District Court
The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology argues that the president's move against Twitter and other companies is retaliatory.
How Eric Schmidt is reinventing himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the US military
The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex. — In July 2016, Raymond Thomas …
Profile of Acronym, a progressive nonprofit that, with the help of ex-Facebook staffer James Barnes, is looking to use Trump's online ad tactics against him
A former Facebook employee is using a tool he employed to help President Trump win to conduct tests for a progressive group … Tweets: @nytpolitics , @chillywillers , @conorjrogers ...