2025-01-16

Everyone suddenly has cold feet about banning TikTok

With a TikTok ban seemingly imminent, TikTok users have spent the last few days fleeing to Chinese social media app “RedNote,” trying to learn Mandarin, and bidding heartfelt farewells to their � [...]

2025-07-02

Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is a middle finger to US solar energy

The so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” will, if passed, make sweeping changes to the US’ clean energy market. While some of the worst provisions affecting the industry were stripped out during Sena [...]

2025-01-28

Senators again attempt to ban pre-teens from social media

Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are re-introducing a bill that aims to ban social media platforms from knowingly letting kids aged under 13 from using them. The bipartisan Kids Of [...]

2025-01-17

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden Administration on a law that could ban TikTok in the coming days. In a unanimous ruling, the court upheld the law, writing in an unsigned opinion that " [...]

2025-02-06

US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices

Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not [...]

2025-07-02

Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' is bad for American EVs, but it could have been worse

President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" has squeaked through the Senate in time for this weekend's pyrotechnic celebrations. The bill festively shoots down a long list of environmen [...]

2025-04-08

The White House wants federal agencies to maximize the use of 'American AI'

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released the administration's revised policies for the use of AI in federal agencies. As Reuters notes, it has altered Biden-era guidelin [...]

2025-01-19

TikTok is no longer available in the US

The switch has flipped on the US TikTok ban. TikTok's app stoped working and was removed from the App Store and Google Play on Saturday night, just hours before the January 19 ban was expected to [...]

2025-06-25

US senators reintroduce bill to open Apple and Google's app stores

Senators Marsha Blacburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have reintroduced a bill that would force app store owners like Apple [...]