September 2, 2022 By directing Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to stop shipping their flagship artificial intelligence chips including Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips and AMD's MI250 chip to China, the U.S. authorities appeared to be more...
August 18, 2022 Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Saudi Arabia for retweeting activists on her Twitter account and sharing posts advocating women's right to drive. After returning to Saudi Arabia for a holiday, more...
August 17, 2022 The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday issued additional guidelines for banks considering activities involving cryptocurrencies. The guidelines warned that banks must ensure that they have systems in place beforehand to ensure that volatile assets do more...
August 12, 2022 The U.S. State Department has announced that the Rewards for Justice program will provide bounties of up to US$10 million for anyone who provides useful information about individual members of the Conti ransomware gang. Wanted more...
August 12, 2022 Civil and voting rights experts have criticized Twitter's decision to fight the spread of misinformation in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. Civil rights and online misinformation experts say Twitter and other technology platforms are not more...
August 11, 2022 The Federal Communications Commission has rejected applications from Starlink and LTD Broadband for more than $2 billion in internet subsidies. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel acknowledged that "Starlink's technology has real promise," but the company's request more...
August 10, 2022 President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the CHIPS ACT, which provides US$52.7 billion in subsidies for semiconductor production and research in the United States. The bill will also boost efforts to increase U.S. competitiveness vis-à-vis more...
August 4, 2022 A new bill championed by leading Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee aims to make the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the direct regulator of Bitcoin and Ether. The bill thus joins a more...
August 3, 2022 Chip stocks recorded a decline amid tensions between the U.S. and China caused by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Taiwan is home to some of the largest contract manufacturers, including Taiwan Semiconductor more...
July 26, 2022 According to the White House, President Biden will meet with CEOs and union leaders to address the issues surrounding the semiconductor bill. The White House announced the meeting in an update to Biden's public schedule, more...
