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Hackers leak personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police on weekend of protests
(Reuters) - Anonymous hackers leaked the personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police officers in retaliation for a crackdown on street demonstrations against veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, as pr...
Sep 20, 2020
EU seeks new powers to penalize tech giants: FT
(Reuters) - The European Union wants to arm itself with new powers to penalize big technology companies, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The proposed plan includes forcing tech giants to break...
Sep 20, 2020
ByteDance says not aware of $5 billion education fund in TikTok deal
NINGBO, China (Reuters) - TikTok owner Bytedance said in a social media post on Sunday that it was the first time it had heard in the news it was setting up a $5 billion education fund in the United S...
Sep 19, 2020
Trump says he is approving TikTok Oracle deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he will approve a deal that will allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States after threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app in Augu...
Sep 19, 2020
TikTok says it already committed to government oversight of U.S. data security
(Reuters) - Video-sharing app TikTok said on Saturday it has already committed to the U.S. government oversight of data security in the country, and that it was "disappointed" by the Trump administrat...
Sep 19, 2020
TikTok filed a complaint against Trump administration to block U.S. ban: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Popular video-sharing app TikTok has asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration banning on the Chinese social-media network, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. TikTok and its p...
Sep 19, 2020
‘Bored by all this drama’: TikTok users play it cool over latest U.S. ban threat
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Look who is not freaking out. Since July, TikTok users have braced for a threatened ban of the ultra-popular short-form video app in the United States, with some opening acc...
Sep 18, 2020
U.S. Senator Blumenthal demands AT&T drop push for ad-subsidized cellphone plans
By Kenneth Li (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Friday called on AT&T Inc to stop pursuing plans to offer cellphone plans partially subsidized by advertising that he said would undermine ...
Sep 18, 2020
Zoox gets driverless car test permit in California, a win for Amazon
(Reuters) - California-based self-driving startup Zoox Inc on Friday received a permit from California's Department of Motor Vehicles to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front s...
Sep 18, 2020
U.S. judge declines to block Commerce Department WeChat order
By Karen Freifeld and David Shepardson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in California declined to block the Commerce Department order issued Friday that will prohibit U.S. app stores from ...
Sep 18, 2020
