March 8, 2024
Via: ArsTechnicaThe 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 […]
February 27, 2024
Via: BGRApple 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 […]
January 19, 2024
Via: Fox NewsA 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 […]
January 8, 2024
Via: TechSpotThe 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 […]
December 27, 2023
Via: BGRChatGPT 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? […]
December 13, 2023
Via: Federal News NetworkThe 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 […]
December 4, 2023
Via: TechSpotSpeaking 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 […]
November 30, 2023
Via: BGRToday, 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 […]
November 9, 2023
Via: ArsTechnicaApple 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 […]
September 18, 2023
Via: ArsTechnicaIn 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 […]
September 13, 2023
Via: BGRFrance’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 […]
August 8, 2023
Via: Government ExecutiveIndustry 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 […]
August 7, 2023
Via: Dark ReadingOver 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 […]
July 31, 2023
Via: TechSpotCiting 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 […]
June 19, 2023
Via: TechSpotBreton 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 […]
June 12, 2023
Via: FCWSoftware 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
June 7, 2023
Via: FCWThe 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
May 23, 2023
Via: ArsTechnicaDays 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 […]
March 28, 2023
Via: Government ExecutiveThe 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
March 27, 2023
Via: Federal News NetworkThe 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 […]