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China Has Leapfrogged the U.S. in Key Technologies. Can a New Law Help?
While Congress argued over whether and how to support American chip makers and research in other technologies, China was surging ahead.
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How Tor is fighting—and beating—Russian censorship
Enlarge (credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Getty) For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to the ire of governments and law enforcement agencies, Tor encrypts your web traffic and sends it through a chain of computers, making it very hard for people to track...
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F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan Upends Antitrust Standards by Suing Meta
Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature. She faces an uphill climb.
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Big Tech Is Proving Resilient as the Economy Cools
Tech companies are slowing their frenetic hiring, but a combination of dominance and diversity is turning out to be — yet again — an overwhelming asset.
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A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science
DeepMind has expanded its database of microscopic biological mechanisms, hoping to accelerate research into all living things.
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The Word of the Year Is ‘Uncertainty’
Did tech win the pandemic or not? We likely won’t be able to tell for a while.
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As Congress Debated Landmark China Bill, Beijing Surged Ahead
Experts are still assessing how China apparently leapfrogged ahead in its effort to manufacture a semiconductor that rivals those made in Taiwan, which supplies both China and the West.
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Comcast stock falls as company fails to add Internet users for first time ever
Enlarge / Comcast CEO Brian Roberts at an event in Beijing on October 17, 2019. Comcast is the largest Internet provider in the US with over 29.8 million residential broadband customers, but the company’s long streak of adding Internet subscribers each quarter is finally over. In Q2 2022 earnings announced today, Comcast said it has...
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0-days sold by Austrian firm used to hack Windows users, Microsoft says
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said on Wednesday that an Austria-based company named DSIRF used multiple Windows and Adobe Reader zero-days to hack organizations located in Europe and Central America. Multiple news outlets have published articles like this one, which cited marketing materials and other evidence linking DSIRF to Subzero, a malicious toolset for “automated...