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District of Columbia says Amazon secretly stopped fast deliveries to 2 predominantly Black ZIP codes

The District of Columbia sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods while still charging millions of dollars for a membership that promises the benefit.

IAEA chief: Iran is poised to 'quite dramatically' increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iran is poised to “quite dramatically” increase its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium as it has started cascades of advanced centrifuges, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Friday.

China's ban on key high-tech materials could have broad impact on industries, economy

BANGKOK (AP) — China has banned exports of key materials used to make a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipment used to pro

Amazon seals Mountain View deal as South Bay office sector perks up

Amazon has struck a deal to rent a big office building in Mountain View in a hopeful sign of an office market rebound.

Reddit rolls out AI search feature

Reddit has launched a new AI search feature for its site. The test rollout of Reddit Answers, launched Monday, will allow users to have their questions answered through a new conversational interface.

Supply chain compromise of Ultralytics AI library results in trojanized versions

Attackers have compromised Ultralytics YOLO packages published on PyPI, the official Python package index, by compromising the build environment of the popular library for creating custom machine learning models.

Chinese online retailer Temu suspended in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has suspended the operations of Chinese online retailer Temu after it failed to meet a government deadline to register the company by the end of November.

JDK 24: The new features in Java 24

Java Development Kit (JDK) 24 is now in an initial rampdown phase, with the feature set frozen at 24 features, ranging from a class-file API to a fourth preview of structured concurrency. JDK 24 reached the rampdown phase on December 5. It is due as a production release on March 18, 2025.

Two senators look to reign in big tech’s influence in defense AI, cloud contracts

The bill would require DoD to use a competitive award process when contracting with cloud, advanced AI systems or data infrastructure vendors. The post Two senators look to reign in big tech’s influence in defense AI, cloud contracts first appeared on Federal News Network.

Appeals court upholds TikTok ban law

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the popular app or face a U.S. ban. A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the law does not violate the First Amendment, as TikTok has argued.

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White House says at least 8 US telecom firms, dozens of nations impacted by China hacking campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.

TikTok defends handling of Romania election content in grilling by EU lawmakers

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — TikTok took down several networks that tried to meddle in Romania's elections, executives said Tuesday as they defended the company's election integrity measures to European Union lawmakers.

Clarifai previews AI compute orchestration

AI platform provider Clarifai is publicly previewing compute orchestration for AI workloads that the company says works across any AI model on any compute, at any scale.

OpenAI unveils API for tracking OpenAI API usage, costs

OpenAI has introduced the Usage API, an API that allows enterprises to track their activity across the OpenAI API. With the Usage API, OpenAI API usage and costs can be assessed programmatically, the company said.

AT&T sees earnings growth over next 3 years; eyes more than $40B in anticipated shareholder returns

AT&T anticipates earnings growth over the next three years thanks to the momentum of 5G and fiber services.

California to consider requiring mental health warnings on social media sites

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday.

If you had a Patreon account, you may qualify for this payment

Patreon will pay $7.25 million across users who had accounts and accessed videos on Patreon.com between April 1, 2016 and Sept. 23, 2024.

China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions

BANGKOK (AP) — China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports.

2024 global network outage report and internet health check

The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services is critical for enterprise organizations.

Low-tech solutions to high-tech cybercrimes

You might hear that 2025 will be the Year of artificial intelligence (AI) cybercrime.  But the trend really began in 2024. AI crime will prove so overwhelming that some say the only way to fight it is through AI security software.

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TMF award to help OPM modernize COBOL code via AI

Guy Cavallo, the OPM CIO, said by using artificial intelligence to rewrite software code, the agency will need fewer programmers without losing oversight rigor. The post TMF award to help OPM modernize COBOL code via AI first appeared on Federal News Network.

District of Columbia says Amazon secretly stopped fast deliveries to 2 predominantly Black ZIP codes

The District of Columbia sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods while still charging millions of dollars for a membership that promises the benefit.

IAEA chief: Iran is poised to 'quite dramatically' increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iran is poised to “quite dramatically” increase its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium as it has started cascades of advanced centrifuges, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Friday.

China's ban on key high-tech materials could have broad impact on industries, economy

BANGKOK (AP) — China has banned exports of key materials used to make a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipment used to pro

Amazon seals Mountain View deal as South Bay office sector perks up

Amazon has struck a deal to rent a big office building in Mountain View in a hopeful sign of an office market rebound.

Reddit rolls out AI search feature

Reddit has launched a new AI search feature for its site. The test rollout of Reddit Answers, launched Monday, will allow users to have their questions answered through a new conversational interface.

Supply chain compromise of Ultralytics AI library results in trojanized versions

Attackers have compromised Ultralytics YOLO packages published on PyPI, the official Python package index, by compromising the build environment of the popular library for creating custom machine learning models.

Chinese online retailer Temu suspended in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has suspended the operations of Chinese online retailer Temu after it failed to meet a government deadline to register the company by the end of November.

JDK 24: The new features in Java 24

Java Development Kit (JDK) 24 is now in an initial rampdown phase, with the feature set frozen at 24 features, ranging from a class-file API to a fourth preview of structured concurrency. JDK 24 reached the rampdown phase on December 5. It is due as a production release on March 18, 2025.

Two senators look to reign in big tech’s influence in defense AI, cloud contracts

The bill would require DoD to use a competitive award process when contracting with cloud, advanced AI systems or data infrastructure vendors. The post Two senators look to reign in big tech’s influence in defense AI, cloud contracts first appeared on Federal News Network.