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Japan and the Netherlands have reportedly bowed to pressure from Washington on tighter supply controls for microchips The United States has agreed a deal with Japan and the Netherlands to restrict China’s access to materials used to make advanced computer chips, the Associated Press reported on Monday, citing sources. According …

The Egyptian Senate is preparing to discuss banning TikTok in Egypt and other similar applications that fail to meet the nation’s safety policies and standards. The Egyptian Senate’s move to ban the application came after many lawsuits were filed before the Egyptian courts calling to ban TikTok from the Internet …

Samsung’s Galaxy S23 series of flagship smartphones isn’t coming until Feb. 1, but all the secrets about the upcoming phones have been revealed, thanks to a series of pretty convincing leaks. First, we have WinFuture’s spec sheets (via Android Police) of the Samsung Galaxy S23 and Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus. …

Many brands suspended campaigns on the platform after Elon Musk’s takeover Twitter is offering free ad space to brands that run advertising campaigns on the platform, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing company emails. According to the report, Twitter will match the funds brands spend on their ads, …

Bitcoin rose on Saturday above $20,000 for first time in over two months. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, rose 4.6% to $20,853 at 01:01 GMT on Saturday, adding $922 to its previous close. The cryptocurrency is up 26.4% from the year’s low of $16,496 on January 1. Ether …

Microsoft Corp is in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT-owner OpenAI as part of the funding that will value the firm at $29 billion, Semafor reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The news underscores the rising interest in the artificial intelligence company, whose chatbot has dazzled …

An NYT report reveals that the Drug Enforcement Administration is covertly using a hacking tool developed by the Israeli firm Paragon. Despite US President Joe Biden’s administration taking a public stance last year against the misuse of spyware to target human rights activists, dissidents, and journalists, the global industry for …

Google’s Jigsaw subsidiary is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India, aimed at preventing misleading information that has been blamed for inciting violence, a top executive said. The initiative will use “prebunking” videos – designed to counter false claims before they become widespread – circulated on the company’s YouTube platform …

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC has hailed a test run of the world’s first hydrogen-powered jet engine as a “new aviation milestone”, suggesting a large step has been made towards the decarbonization of the aviation industry. In partnership with EasyJet PLC, Rolls-Royce ran a converted regional aircraft engine fuelled by green hydrogen, …

The U.S. government said it is banning telecommunications and video surveillance equipment from several prominent Chinese brands in an effort to protect the nation’s communications network. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously on Friday to expand its ban on the sale and import of Chinese technology from firms that …

Digital criminal gangs are expected to ramp up their activities against e-commerce companies over the weekend with Black Friday retail bargains attracting shoppers, a fraud and identity expert said. There are several different methods for fraud, mostly by using stolen card information to commit Card Not Present (CNP) fraud against …

Hundreds of Twitter Inc employees are estimated to have decided to quit the beleaguered social media company following a Thursday deadline from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for “long hours at high intensity,” or leave. The departures highlight the reluctance of some of Twitter’s 3,000 or so …

The companywide ultimatum, sent around midnight in San Francisco time, comes after Musk has already fired key Twitter executives and laid off half of Twitter’s full-time employees. New Twitter CEO and sole director Elon Musk sent a companywide email to remaining employees of the social media business on Wednesday, demanding …

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter, with an announcement planned as early as Wednesday. Meta declined to comment on the WSJ report. Facebook parent Meta …

A US media report has revealed that the Washington establishment and social media platforms are in collaboration with one another to censor what is referred by them to as online “misinformation”. The Intercept reported on Monday that the US Big Tech firms, namely, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook) and Microsoft, collaborated …

The billionaire is currently the sole director of the social media giant and has vowed to make changes Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s entire board of directors following his buyout of the social media giant, legal documents filed with financial regulators on Monday show. Musk reportedly …

Medibank Private Ltd, Australia’s biggest health insurer, said on Wednesday a cyber hack had compromised the data of all of its nearly 4 million customers, as it warned of a A$25 million to A$35 million ($16 million to $22.3 million) hit to first-half earnings. It said on Wednesday that all …

TikTok has denied reports alleging that its parent company ByteDance planned to use it to monitor the physical location of specific American citizens. On Thursday, Forbes reported that a ByteDance team based in China planned to use the TikTok app to use location information to surveil individual American citizens not …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off Friday a prototype of its humanoid robot ‘Optimus’, predicting the electric vehicle maker would be able to produce millions and sell them for under $20,000 – less than a third of the price of a Model Y. Musk said he expected Tesla would be …

The data is reportedly for sale on the dark web after Portugal’s General Staff was hacked Portugal’s General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA) has been targeted by a “prolonged and unprecedented” cyber attack, resulting in the leak of a raft of secret NATO documents, local media outlets reported on …