In a new front in the U.S.-China tech war, President Joe Biden’s administration is facing pressure from some lawmakers to restrict American companies from working on a freely available chip technology widely used in China – a move that could upend how the global technology industry collaborates across borders.
Spanish company PLD Space launched its recoverable Miura-1 rocket early on Saturday from a site in southwest Spain, carrying out Europe’s first fully private rocket launch in a glimmer of hope for the region’s stalled space ambitions.
Two senior Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday pressed the Biden administration for tougher enforcement of export controls on sending advanced computing chips and the tools to make them to China.
A hacker is advertising millions of “pieces of data” stolen from the family genetics websites 23andMe, according to posts made to an online forum where digital thieves often advertise leaked data.
Investigators at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s enforcement division have concluded that the co-founder of Voyager Digital broke derivatives regulations before the failed crypto lender plunged into bankruptcy last year, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
Microsoft is aiming to close its $69 billion deal for “Call of Duty” publisher Activision Blizzard on Oct. 13 if it gets approval from Britain’s antitrust regulator, the Verge reported on Friday, citing a source.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s former lieutenant and business partner recounted the FTX cryptocurrency exchange’s dramatic collapse on the witness stand on Friday, stating his former boss’ tweets assuring customers the exchange was “fine” were false.
For Lee Rees, 43, FTX was one of a handful of exchanges on which the London-based cryptocurrency trader earned a good living, profiting off fleeting price differences across the crypto market.
Amazon’s first pair of prototype satellites for its planned Kuiper internet network were launched into space on Friday from Florida, the company’s first step before it deploys thousands more into orbit to beam internet service globally and compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.
Elon Musk was sued by the U.S. securities regulator related to his takeover of Twitter, the latest court battle against the billionaire whose empire spans electric carmaker Tesla , space startup SpaceX and brain-chip startup Neuralink.
