Category: Hardware & Software

September 18, 2023

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 […]

September 13, 2023

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 […]

August 8, 2023

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 […]

August 7, 2023

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 […]

July 31, 2023

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 […]

June 19, 2023

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 […]

June 12, 2023

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 […]

June 7, 2023

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 […]

May 23, 2023

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 […]

March 28, 2023

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 […]

March 27, 2023

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 […]

March 23, 2023

Intel and other semiconductor companies have joined together with industrial materials businesses to fight US clampdowns on “forever chemicals,” substances used in myriad products that are slow to break down in the environment. The lobbying push from chipmakers broadens the […]

March 16, 2023

Social media app TikTok has been banned on UK government electronic devices, the Cabinet Office has announced. The ban, announced by the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Dowden, comes in the wake of a security review into the […]

March 8, 2023

The bipartisan Senate bill endorsed by the White House empowers Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to review deals, software updates, or data transfers by information and communications technology in which a foreign adversary has an interest, writes CNBC. There are […]

March 7, 2023

According to China’s General Administration of Customs data published Tuesday (via The South China Morning Post), the country imported 67.6 billion integrated circuits (IC) in January and February. That’s down 26.5% from the same period last year, and higher than […]

February 28, 2023

Microsoft clearly has more than a few kinks to work out in its new AI-powered Bing chat before it’s ready for primetime, but that isn’t stopping the company from expanding the feature throughout its ecosystem at a surprisingly rapid pace. […]

February 22, 2023

The situation revolves around medical device maker AliveCor. In May, the company filed suit against Apple, claiming the iPhone creator stole its EKG heart-rate monitoring technology and cornered the market in a “predatory” manner. AliveCor said that it first shared […]

February 15, 2023

Department of Defense personnel are using unauthorized mobile applications on their government-issued mobile devices, potentially jeopardizing sensitive national security information, according to a report released by the agency’s Office of Inspector General on Feb. 9. The partially redacted management advisory […]

February 2, 2023

Michael F. Bennet, a Colorado Democrat Senator, called out Apple and Google to ban TikTok from their app stores. According to him, the Chinese application is a threat to national security. “Chinese Communist Party dictates should have the power to […]

January 27, 2023

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance and its subsidiaries spent a personal record amount lobbying in 2022 as the social media giant faces national security concerns and threats of bans in the United States. ByteDance and its subsidiaries finished last year […]