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Revealed: TikTok Code Worked on From China

Software developers based in China are writing the code for TikTok, triggering concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can access the data of more than one billion users worldwide, as well as force staff to silence dissenting voices, elevate pro-communist narratives, and sow seeds of division in democracies. A code sample seen by the…


US Attorneys General Condemn Credit Card Firms After Pause on Gun Sale Code

After Visa and Mastercard paused work on a merchant payment code (MCC) to detect gun sales in the United States, a coalition of Democrat attorneys general condemned the move on Thursday. Both Visa and Mastercard, the two largest credit card firms in the United States, confirmed to The Epoch Times last week they would halt work…


The Enemy Below (1957)

In the South Atlantic during World War II, U.S. destroyer Haines tracked the German submarine Reliant with radar, and Captain Murrell launched a pursuit. …


Musk Says Biden’s EV Policy ‘Controlled by Unions’: Code Conference

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration was not the friendliest and its electric vehicle policy appeared to be controlled by labor unions. Speaking at a tech conference in California, Musk was critical of a White House summit on electric vehicles in August to which automakers other than…


Banks Beware, Outsiders Are Cracking the Code for Finance

LONDON—Anyone can be a banker these days, you just need the right code. Global brands from Mercedes and Amazon to IKEA and Walmart are cutting out the traditional financial middleman and plugging in software from tech startups to offer customers everything from banking and credit to insurance. For established financial institutions, the warning signs are…


Couple Find WWII Messages Under Floorboards, Get Bletchley Park Code Breaker to Crack It

An elderly couple who found secret World War II German-coded messages under their floorboards are trying to crack the puzzle with the help of a neighbor—a 95-year-old Bletchley Park code breaker. During a renovation project, John and Val Campbell, of Guernsey, discovered a cache of wartime items hidden in their house by a German soldier in the 1940s….


Chinese Spyware Code Was Copied From America’s NSA: Researchers

WASHINGTON—Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Monday, another indication of how malicious software developed by governments can boomerang against their creators. Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware…


Chinese Spyware Code Was Copied From NSA, Researchers Claim

WASHINGTON—Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Feb. 22, in another indication of how malicious software developed by governments can boomerang against their creators. Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of…