April 15, 2024 In a significant strategic move, the Biden administration has announced a $6.4 billion grant to Samsung to boost semiconductor production in Texas, highlighting efforts to reduce reliance on Asian markets, particularly China and Taiwan. This more...
April 15, 2024 Microsoft's series of high-profile cybersecurity failures has once again spotlighted the complex relationship between the tech giant and the US government. Despite recurrent breaches attributed to foreign hackers exploiting flaws in Microsoft's systems, the company more...
April 11, 2024 The European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), effective from March 7, 2024, is beginning to reshape the mobile browser landscape by promoting competition and choice. The DMA mandates major phone manufacturers to offer browser choice more...
February 27, 2024 The federal privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into a data security breach detected in January at Global Affairs Canada. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Monday the investigation into the foreign service was launched more...
February 26, 2024 The Online Harm Act’s proposed Digital Safety Commission — whose members would be full-time government employees with renewable terms of up to five years — would have extensive powers. It would be able to summon and more...
February 26, 2024 Designated social media providers, live-streaming services and adult sites that allow users to upload content will have to scrutinize and delete objectionable messages, images, and videos if the Liberal government’s proposed Online Harms Act, which more...
February 26, 2024 One of Ontario’s biggest cities is in the second day of dealing with a cyber attack. Hamilton, a municipality of about 570,000 on the shore of Lake Ontario, said Sunday it had suffered a city-wide more...
February 21, 2024 Opposition MPs hammered the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Tuesday for its role in not tightly overseeing the $59 million spent on the ArriveCAN app, but failed to get answers more...
February 16, 2024 Two senior Canadian cabinet ministers have told a parliamentary committee that the government is willing to make changes to its proposed cybersecurity legislation for federally regulated critical infrastructure providers to strengthen the bill. Industry Minister more...
February 15, 2024 Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, is on a global mission to advocate for "sovereign AI" — the concept that every nation, regardless of size or resources, should develop its own AI to maintain national autonomy more...