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Silicon Valley, technology and science news. Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge for achieving practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software. Technology plays a critical role in science, engineering, and everyday life

US lawmakers seek answers from telecoms on Chinese hacking report

US lawmakers seek answers from telecoms on Chinese hacking report

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked AT&T, Verizon Communications, and Lumen Technologies on Friday to answer questions after...

Smithsonian and NASA present exhibit that explores ever-changing Earth 

Smithsonian and NASA present exhibit that explores ever-changing Earth 

This month, [October 8] the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History opened “NASA’s Earth Information Center” an exhibition that gives...

X complies with court’s demands, cleared to be reinstated in Brazil

X complies with court’s demands, cleared to be reinstated in Brazil

US states sue TikTok, saying it harms young users

US states sue TikTok, saying it harms young users

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON — TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the...

Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics 

Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics 

STOCKHOLM — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday...

China-connected spamouflage networks spread antisemitic disinformation

China-connected spamouflage networks spread antisemitic disinformation

washington — Spamouflage networks with connections to China are posting antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media, casting doubt on Washington’s independence...

Australia’s online dating industry agrees to code of conduct to protect users

Australia’s online dating industry agrees to code of conduct to protect users

MELBOURNE, Australia — A code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after...

Arkansas sues YouTube over claims it’s fueling mental health crisis

Arkansas sues YouTube over claims it’s fueling mental health crisis

little rock, arkansas — Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive...

California governor vetoes bill to create first-in-nation AI safety measures

California governor vetoes bill to create first-in-nation AI safety measures

Sacramento, California — California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence...

Brazil imposes new fine, demands payments before letting X resume

Brazil imposes new fine, demands payments before letting X resume

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA BRAZIL — Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Friday that social platform X still needs to pay just over $5...

CrowdStrike executive apologizes to Congress for July global tech outage

CrowdStrike executive apologizes to Congress for July global tech outage

WASHINGTON — An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the...

Former executive gets 2 years in prison for role in FTX fraud

Former executive gets 2 years in prison for role in FTX fraud

new york — Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, was sentenced to two years...

Biden proposes banning Chinese vehicles from US roads with software crackdown 

Biden proposes banning Chinese vehicles from US roads with software crackdown 

Washington — The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday proposed prohibiting key Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles on American roads...

US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles, sources say

US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles, sources say

Washington — The U.S. Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous...

Instagram makes teen accounts private as pressure mounts to protect children

Instagram makes teen accounts private as pressure mounts to protect children

California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction

California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction

SACRAMENTO, California — California will make it illegal for social media platforms to knowingly provide addictive feeds to children without parental...

China-connected spamouflage impersonated Dutch cartoonist

China-connected spamouflage impersonated Dutch cartoonist

Washington — Based on the posts of an X account that bears the name of Dutch cartoonist Bart van Leeuwen, a...

How Lebanon’s wireless paging system was weaponized to make Hezbollah devices explode

How Lebanon’s wireless paging system was weaponized to make Hezbollah devices explode

California laws target deepfake political ads, disinformation

California laws target deepfake political ads, disinformation

Who still uses pagers?  

Who still uses pagers?  

US targets second major Chinese hacking group

US targets second major Chinese hacking group

Washington — The United States has identified and taken down a botnet campaign by China-directed hackers to further infiltrate American infrastructure...

EU court confirms Qualcomm’s antitrust fine, with minor reduction

EU court confirms Qualcomm’s antitrust fine, with minor reduction

brussels — Europe’s second-top court largely confirmed on Wednesday an EU antitrust fine imposed on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm, revising it down...