Tag: ban

April 24, 2024

After a swift vote in the House of Representatives earlier this week, the United States Senate has now passed the National Security Package which includes the controversial potential ban on TikTok in the US. Following the US legislative process, the […]

April 1, 2024

In guidance to congressional offices issued by The House’s Chief Administrative Officer, Catherine Szpindor, and seen by Axios, it’s stated that Copilot is “unauthorized for House use.” The guidance adds that Copilot will be removed from and blocked on all […]

December 28, 2023

The Apple Watch import ban has been put on pause, just a week after the company stopped sales of the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2. Apple confirmed to TechCrunch that the Series 9 and Ultra 2 are available […]

May 18, 2023

With a TikTok ban hitting Montana and dozens of other, more nuanced bans of the app across the world, there’s a chance you might see yourself in a situation in which you want to scroll through your FYP amidst a […]

May 2, 2023

Samsung has banned the use of generative AI such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard after employees in one of the company’s largest divisions reportedly uploaded internal source code to ChatGPT’s servers. The information comes from a Bloomberg report. Samsung announced […]

March 16, 2023

Adding to the mounting tension between TikTok and governments everywhere, the Biden administration has reportedly demanded that Chinese company ByteDance sell TikTok — or face a total ban. TikTok first told the Wall Street Journal(Opens in a new tab) that […]

March 7, 2023

A TikTok ban is closer than it’s ever been following the Tuesday introduction of a bill that would make it easier for the Biden administration to restrict access to the popular video sharing app. The bipartisan bill, led by Sen. […]

March 1, 2023

Per CNBC, on Tuesday Republicans on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee took short-form video app TikTok closer to its final tick in the U.S. Concerned about reports that TikTok collects personal data from its U.S. subscribers, and might even […]

December 15, 2022

Microsoft has officially banned cryptomining within its Azure cloud services in a rather inconspicuous way. An update(opens in new tab) to its Universal License Terms for Online Services, which mainly applies to its cloud platform, states that “mining cryptocurrency is […]

September 21, 2021

Security agencies in the United States are debating whether to place Honor, the former Huawei brand, on an export blacklist, The Washington Post reports. Staff members of the Pentagon and Energy Department want the new company put on the entity […]

August 10, 2020

The Trump administration has escalated its threats to ban Chinese social media apps TikTok and WeChat within the US, issuing executive orders last week sanctioning them. The orders will ban “transactions” between US entities and the parent companies of TikTok […]

January 16, 2020

Despite an extremely turbulent few months, Huawei finished 2019 on a high by setting an impressive new smartphone sales record. It shipped 10 million more smartphones than predicted Company chairman Xu Zhijun revealed earlier today that Huawei managed to ship […]

November 15, 2016

The topic of fake news and the websites that propagate false stories has gotten a lot of attention in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election. Google has taken heat for having incorrect news stories pop up in its search […]

July 29, 2015

China has in the past banned sites such as Facebook and Twitter and filtered online content using the ‘Great Firewall’. Now its government is reportedly trying to redesign the internet so it can police parts of it on its own […]