This morning, the US House of Representatives voted to essentially ban TikTok, unless Chinese-owned Bytedance divests from the app entirely. If passed in the Senate, TikTok would have about six months to untangle itself from its China-based owner. In speeches leading up to the vote on H.R. 7521, known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign…
Early last week, Israel’s Arrow 2 missile system successfully intercepted and destroyed a suborbital ballistic missile suspected of launching from Yemen. It’s a notable technological achievement, but one with potentially serious legal and geopolitical implications. The New M3-Powered iMacs Are Triggering Serious Deja Vu The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) shot down an Iranian-manufactured ballistic missile…
A rare bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has teamed up to propose major privacy reforms that could fundamentally reign in the US government’s most powerful domestic surveillance tools. Should Facial Recognition Technology be Banned? | Future Tech If passed, the newly proposed Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA) would force law enforcement agencies to obtain a legal…
Chinese-made drones remain one of the federal government’s big boogeymen. Now, House lawmakers are making another effort to ban China-made drones. The GoPro Hero 12 Goes Vertical: Hands On With GoPro’s Latest Action Cam The House of Representatives Committee on China says the U.S. government needs to stop using any drones coming from China, The…
The United Nations created a 39-member advisory body to guide the world through governance issues around artificial intelligence, announced United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday. Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, and the world’s 500 top technologists called for a pause of advanced AI systems back in March to…
Jeremy Wright was the first of five UK ministers charged with pushing through the British government’s landmark legislation on regulating the internet, the Online Safety Bill. The current UK government likes to brand its initiatives as “world-beating,” but for a brief period in 2019 that might have been right. Back then, three prime ministers ago,…
Telegram is also a hugely powerful recruiting tool, giving this movement a platform free of censorship or restrictions to spread its message to a much larger audience than it would have on other mainstream platforms. “Alt-tech platforms—and Telegram is really one of the biggest examples of this—provide these hate groups with a ready-made audience of…
