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The U.S. House’s chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices, Axios reported. The ban, which centers on the vulnerability of staffers’ data, comes as Congress is also taking steps to limit the use of AI programs it deems similarly risky. The chief administrative officer has in recent years set at
Starting September 1, fully automated cars will require a permit to operate in Texas. This new restriction comes after the state’s governor, Greg Abbottt, signed into law the SB 2807 bill that requires authorization from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles for self-driving cars on public streets without human interaction, Engadget reported. The signing of the new law coincides with
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes, The New York Times reported. When President Trump issued an executive order in February against the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for investigating Israel for war crimes, Microsoft
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership, The Associated Press reported. “As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension
The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching is biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fedivese posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads, The Verge reported. Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be
When Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2024, the messaging app had a clear focus. No ads, no games, and no gimmicks, The New York Times reported. For years, that is what WhatsApp’s two billion users — many of them in Brazil, India, and other countries around the world — got. They chatted with friends and family unencumbered by
The SEC has withdrawn over a dozen rules the agency proposed under Joe Biden, including two crypto-related rules targeting DeFi and digital asset custody CoinTelegraph reported. The SEC said on Thursday that it was “withdrawing certain notices of proposed rulemaking” that were issued between March 2022 and November 2023 under former Chair Gary Gensler. The agency added that it “does