Paresh Dave: Absolutely. The timing when some of those moves were first announced was viewed as kind of suspicious because it was right around when these investigations into Meta and these cases started getting filed against Big Tech companies. Zoë Schiffer: We’re going to take one more short break. AndContinue Reading
The US Federal Trade Commission’s trial against Meta begins in Washington, DC on Monday, as the tech giant fights to avoid the spinoff of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC alleges that Meta illegally acquired the two startups in an effort to suppress competition. Meta (then Facebook) bought the photo-sharing startupContinue Reading
If you’ve noticed a new light-blue circle appear in your WhatsApp chats recently and wondered what it was, Meta has recently expanded its implementation of Meta AI into new markets—and now it’s in yours. While it began rolling out in the US and Canada in 2023, more recently it hasContinue Reading
When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching no fewer than nine of the phone carriers and accessing Americans’ texts and calls in real time—that hacking campaign was treated as a four-alarm fire by the USContinue Reading
In 2024, the Malaysian security services carried out more than 20 terrorism-related arrests in the country. These included two inter-state operations in June that involved the arrests of individuals in the states of Johor, Kelantan, Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Perak. The recent arrests in the country underscore an evolvingContinue Reading
The rapid rise of DeepSeek, a Chinese generative AI platform, heightened concerns this week over the United States’ AI dominance as Americans increasingly adopt Chinese-owned digital services. With ongoing criticism over alleged security issues posed by TikTok’s relationship to China, DeepSeek’s own privacy policy confirms that it stores user dataContinue Reading
