In the weeks before Donald Trump takes office, he has moved to delay a nationwide TikTok ban from taking effect until he has a chance to make a deal on…
We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours when Chris Kraft’s eyes suddenly brightened. “Hey,” he said, “Here’s a story I’ll bet you never heard.” Kraft, the man…
It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation, AI supposedly coming for jobs, and unpopular…
We may be seeing some of the first major fissures forming in the dalliance between Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk. Over the holiday week, Musk entered into…
A brave YouTuber has managed to defeat a fake Nintendo lawyer improperly targeting his channel with copyright takedowns that could have seen his entire channel removed if YouTube issued one…
OpenAI has finally shared details about its plans to shake up its core business by shifting to a for-profit corporate structure. On Thursday, OpenAI posted on its blog, confirming that…
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft in a wide-ranging probe that will examine whether the company’s business practices have run afoul of antitrust laws, according to people familiar with…
Google’s June 2024 spam update rollout is now complete. The spam update started on December 19, 2024, about seven days ago, finishing on December 26, 2024. This was the third spam update…
The next U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy is very likely to be Elbridge Colby, who is well known to favor the destruction of Taiwan’s chip fabs in the event…
Google launched seven official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2024, four core updates and three spam updates. The March 2024 core update was massive, updating several systems within the core algorithm, plus…
NVIDIA and AMD are reportedly shipping out their next-gen GPUs to US warehouses in China under "desperate" measures to avoid the wave of tariffs coming with the Trump administration. NVIDIA…
This guide explains the holiday return policies for Amazon, Apple, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Macy's. Source
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is implementing a new childcare policy that will allow employees to take seven paid days off to care for their first child and an…
Telegram is about to turn a profit for the first time in its history after giving up on certain privacy policies to play nice with the authorities. Source
President Biden signs National Defense Authorization Act into lawThe Act makes the creation of a US "Cyber Force" less likely, and no longer curbs the surveillance powers of FISABillions of…
Starting December, Google will expand its “Abusing the ad network” policy to explicitly disapprove ads pointing to destinations penalized for violating Google Search spam policies. The details: Ads directing users…
The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has started a probe into China’s semiconductor industry, looking for anti-competitive trade practices. , the USTR is looking into China for “acts,…
Under Joe Biden's direction, the US Trade Representative (USTR) launched a probe Monday into China's plans to globally dominate markets for legacy chips—alleging that China's unfair trade practices threaten US…
Following tons of Galaxy S25 leaks Samsung is now trying to strengthen its internal security policies. Source
Although the details remain in flux, the transition team reviewing NASA and its activities has begun to draft potential executive orders for changes to space policy under the Trump Administration.…