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US President issued an order on Thursday directing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to focus on microelectronics, artificial intelligence, biotech and quantum computing.
Before the software upgrade one Ethereum transaction used as much power as an average US household uses in a week
The chief operating officer of TikTok declined to tell US lawmakers on Wednesday "that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US user data to China"
The country’s cyberspace regulator is looking impose harsher punishments for breaches of its data security laws
Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission said it had fined Alphabet's Google $50m and Meta $22m for privacy violations. Both said they would review the finding.
The FBI told Twitter an agent from China's Ministry of State Security was on its payroll, a Senate Judiciary Committee heard on Tuesday
TSMC's new N3E chipmaking tech will offer better performance, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, the report said.
The US is considering sanctions against China to try to deter it from invading Taiwan, while Taipei has lobbied the European Union to do the same
Taiwan's Globalwafers will start work in November on the first silicon wafer facility built in the US in more than two decades.
Twitter's dealings in China may come to the fore on Tuesday when a US Senate panel holds a hearing to consider a whistleblower complaint filed by the group's former security chief.
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