The chairman of Swedish-Swiss engineering giant ABB is expecting the global semiconductor shortage to ease soon, but believes diversifying the chip supply chain is “very important” as China–Taiwan tensions remain a “risk.” The semiconductor shortage was “really an issue” last year, specifically the first two to three quarters, Chairman Peter Voser said in an interview…
ABB Chairman ‘Optimistic’ About Worldwide Chip Shortage Easing Down Soon
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Musk’s Lawyers Claim Vast Majority of San Francisco Jurors Hold Negative View of Tesla CEO Ahead of Shareholder Trial
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawyers have argued that the Tesla CEO is viewed in a negative light by more than 80 percent of prospective jurors in San Francisco in an effort to get his upcoming trial against a group of Tesla shareholders moved out of the state. Lawyers for Musk argued in court documents that questionnaires,…
Prominent Exchange and Token Issuer Crypto.com Slashing 20 Percent of Workforce
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Emotional Support Experiment With AI Chatbot Prompts Backlash
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France Fines TikTok $5.4 Million for Online Tracking Shortcomings
PARIS—France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform’s handling of online tracking known as “cookies”, which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed. French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service’s much more heavily…
Samsung Reportedly Moves Its Top-of-the-Line Product Out of CES Venue to Avoid Intellectual Property Theft
Samsung Electronics exhibition hall at CES 2023 was different from previous years. The company did not display its top-of-the-line TV at the main venue of the Las Vegas Convention Center, reportedly to avoid being copied by Chinese companies. According to South Korean experts, Samsung’s tolerance for Chinese plagiarism has reached its limit, and advanced tech…
Twitter Says No Evidence New User Data Leaks Were Obtained via System Bug
Twitter Inc. said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems. Twitter said the data of 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which it previously fixed and disclosed over the…
Hackers Hit Websites of Danish Central Bank, Other Banks
COPENHAGEN—Hackers have disrupted access to the websites of Denmark’s central bank and seven private banks in the country this week, according to the central bank and an IT firm that serves the industry. The websites of the central bank and Bankdata, a company that develops IT solutions for the financial industry, were hit by so-called…
Lawmakers Urge ESPN CEO to End TikTok Sponsorships
January 11, 2023
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Two U.S. House representatives are calling on ESPN Chairman James Pitaro to drop Chinese-owned TikTok as a sponsor of NCAA college football events. In a Jan. 9 letter (pdf) to the chairman, Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) express their concern over ESPN’s decision to have TikTok sponsor the halftime shows for recent…
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