Trump’s next move to impact the semiconductor industry
President Donald Trump is preparing to announce new tariffs on imported semiconductors as early as this week, signaling a broader push to bring advanced manufacturing back to the United States.…
TikTok Is in Some Minority Report-Style Legal Trouble
Image: QubixStudio (Shutterstock) Just months away from being banned in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be putting some salt in TikTok’s wound. The agency has issued…
Trump’s Truth Social Has Gone Woke
Truth Social’s stock price appears to be making a slight rebound Wednesday after losing more than half of its peak value in the month of April. That’s a bit surprising…
Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks
Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech…
Remember When the U.S. Secretly Built a Social Network to Destabilize Cuba?
The House of Representatives passed a law this week that would force China-based ByteDance to divest from the US version of its popular app TikTok or face a ban in…
TikTok’s Campaign to Stop U.S. Ban ‘Backfires,’ Enraging Congress
TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan…
TikTok Users Overwhelm Congress With Push to Stop Possible U.S. Ban
TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan…
Will Stancil, Notable Twitter Pugilist, Announces Run for Political Office In Minnesota
Will Stancil, a man who’s made a name for himself online as a feisty defender of Joe Biden and Democratic policies, announced Wednesday that he’s running for a seat in…
U.S. Charges Yakuza Leader Over Alleged Plot to Send Nuclear Materials to Iran
Takeshi Ebisawa, a purported leader in Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate, was charged on Wednesday with trying to sell undercover DEA agents nuclear materials that he believed would eventually make their…
US Judge Blocks Montana’s ‘Anti-Chinese’ TikTok Ban
A US Federal Judge blocked a Montana law Thursday that would have banned TikTok in the state starting on January 1st, arguing the bill is unconstitutional on the basis that…