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The US says the extremely popular video-sharing app ‘screams’ of national security concerns and considers a countrywide banTikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-…
Shares plummet after Ernie Bot AI chatbot software falls short of expectations at unveiling in BeijingThe Chinese search engine company Baidu’s shares have fallen by as much as 10% after the company unveiled its ChatGPT-like AI software, with investors…
Mike Butcher writes via TechCrunch: SidekickWas it the pandemic? Did everyone follow too many ADHD TikTokers? Have smartphones fried our brains? Whatever the case, there is a boom in ADHD tech solutions, from online drug deliveries to web sites and app…
The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. KrebsOnSecurity reports: Freenom is the domain name registry service provider for five so-ca…
The bill would allow commerce department to impose restrictions on technologies that pose a risk to national securityThe White House said it backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chine…
As highlighted by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, Roku doesn’t support IPv6 — a next-gen Internet Protocol standard intended to eventually replace IPv4, the protocol many Internet services (including Roku) still use today. “DingleBog3899” writes on the…
Retailer says breach has not affected customer details, or had impact on website or general tradingWH Smith has been the target of a cyber-attack in which company data was accessed illegally, including the personal details of current and former employe…
What happens when a newspaper dies? Apparently, in some cases, its digital ghost lives on in mysterious, unrecognizable forms. From a report: Minneapolis neighborhood newspaper the Southwest Journal shuttered at the end of 2020, but its web domain cont…
More countries shut down the internet in 2022 than ever before, according to a new report by digital rights researchers, as the threat of “digital authoritarianism” races up the agenda of many governments worldwide. From a report: Authorities in 35 cou…
All-party group says there is extensive evidence that consuming pornography fuels sexual violenceAction must be taken against pornography to help end the “epidemic” of male violence against women and girls, according to a cross-party group of MPs.A sub…