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Hardware & Software, Tech

US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

March 8, 2024

Via: ArsTechnica

The House Commerce Committee today voted 50-0 to approve a bill that would force TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company or lose access to the US market. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act “addresses the immediate […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Apple sues US patent office over AR software trademarks

February 27, 2024

Via: BGR

Apple is suing the US Patent Trademark Office after the organization refused to grant trademarks covering Cupertino’s AR software development tools Reality Composer and Reality Converter. According to Reuters, Apple asked the Virginia federal court to revert USPTO’s decision as […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Republicans demand FBI, DHS update Congress on ongoing TikTok investigation

January 19, 2024

Via: Fox News

A pair of top House Republicans are calling for the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to brief Congress on ongoing federal probes into the popular Chinese social media platform TikTok. The Republican lawmakers — House Homeland Security Committee […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Microchip Technology will get millions from the US Chips Act to strengthen its manufacturing yield

January 8, 2024

Via: TechSpot

The US Department of Commerce recently announced a preliminary agreement to provide Microchip Technology with $162 million of federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. The company will use the funds to further support its semiconductor supply chain, decreasing […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over ChatGPT training data

December 27, 2023

Via: BGR

ChatGPT is still the fastest-growing consumer technology product of all time, but it achieved that in large part by crawling the internet and training itself on the backs of every website it could get its hands on. Is that okay? […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

NSA, CISA call on software developers, suppliers to improve open source software management practices

December 13, 2023

Via: Federal News Network

The National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s latest guidance offers software developers and suppliers a set of recommendations on how to securely source and store open source software, as open source tech use has skyrocketed in the […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

US government warns Nvidia against circumventing China export restriction by redesigning chips

December 4, 2023

Via: TechSpot

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday (via BNN Bloomberg), Raimondo said her department needed more funding to address China’s “rapidly growing” semiconductor markets to deny the country the most cutting-edge technology from the […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Apple will begin producing and packaging some Apple Silicon chips in the US

November 30, 2023

Via: BGR

Today, Apple announced that some of its most advanced silicon production and packaging are coming to the United States thanks to a partnership with Amkor, which will manufacture and pack the company’s chips in a facility in Peoria, Arizona. According […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

EU regulator says Apple should be on hook for €14.3 billion tax bill

November 9, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

Apple has been dealt a blow in its €14.3 billion tax dispute with Brussels after an adviser to the EU’s top court said an earlier ruling over its business in Ireland should be shelved. Giovanni Pitruzzella, advocate-general of the European […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Geopolitics complicates Apple’s relationship with China

September 18, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

In March, Tim Cook was among the first batch of foreign executives to land in Beijing to court high-level officials after the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions, with Apple’s chief lauding how the company and China had grown together in a […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

France wants to ban iPhone 12 due to high radiation level concerns

September 13, 2023

Via: BGR

France’s FCC has ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 12 from the local market as the model exceeds the limit for electromagnetic absorption by the body. The information comes from the French blog France24. ANFR, the French agency that regulates […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Government contractors grapple with enforcement challenges of TikTok ban

August 8, 2023

Via: Government Executive

Industry groups have expressed privacy and censorship concerns over a federal ban that prohibits government contractors from using the TikTok social media app on covered devices, while warning that monitoring compliance and implementation could prove difficult for many organizations. In […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Selling Software to the US Government? Know Security Attestation First

August 7, 2023

Via: Dark Reading

Over the past several months, the US government has introduced several new requirements affecting organizations that sell software to government agencies. Because these new requirements are complex, many leaders are not yet sure how their organization will be impacted. In […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Biden administration set to limit US tech investment in China next month

July 31, 2023

Via: TechSpot

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that the order will primarily target areas where the US has previously attempted to restrict China’s development: semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. The publication writes that the order will not affect […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

EU commissioner wants all member states to ban Huawei and ZTE’s 5G equipment

June 19, 2023

Via: TechSpot

Breton expressed his disappointment that, despite EU guidelines urging its 27 member states to prohibit ‘high-risk’ vendors from supplying 5G equipment, only 10 have implemented this plan. He stated that the inaction of the majority of EU member states poses […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Industry calls for clarity after White House extends software security form deadline

June 12, 2023

Via: FCW

Software companies and industry leaders praised a White House decision to extend the deadline for agencies to begin collecting software security attestation forms from contractors, while calling for further clarity regarding the specific details that vendors will need to provide […]


Cybersecurity, Hardware & Software, Tech

Public sector apps face widespread security challenges, report reveals

June 7, 2023

Via: FCW

The vast majority of applications developed by public sector organizations over the last year suffered from at least one security flaw, according to a new report that analyzed 750,000 applications developed by the public and private sectors. Software security firm […]


Hardware & Software, Policy, State & Local, Tech

TikTok sues to stop Montana from enforcing its “unconstitutional” ban

May 23, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

Days after TikTok users sued to block Montana’s TikTok ban, TikTok has followed through on its promise to fight the ban and filed its own lawsuit in a United States district court in Montana. “We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional TikTok […]


Hardware & Software, Tech

Planned Login-dot-gov Deployment at IRS is Postponed

March 28, 2023

Via: Government Executive

The IRS and General Services Administration are delaying the deployment of the government-operated sign-on service Login.gov at the IRS due to concerns about Login’s ability to handle a sudden spike in usage as Tax Day approaches, FCW has learned. The […]


Hardware & Software, IT Policy, Tech

US to adopt new restrictions on using commercial spyware

March 27, 2023

Via: Federal News Network

The U.S. government will restrict its use of commercial spyware tools that have been used to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world, under an executive order issued Monday by President Joe Biden. The order responds to […]