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• After U.S. chip block, China's plan for 100 petaflop supercomputer may get delayed

  The U.S.'s recent denial of Intel chips for China's fastest supercomputer could derail an upgrade to double the machine's processing power.

• Digital rights groups protest US ruling to block digital transmissions

  A decision by a U.S. government agency prohibiting the transmission of 3D dental records into the U.S. could open the door to further content restrictions on the Internet, digital rights groups have said.

• US blocks Intel from selling Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputer projects

  U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China's supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests.

• AT&T's data breach settlement called a 'slap on the wrist'

  The punishment AT&T received this week from the U.S. government for its sloppy protection of customer data is peanuts and won't scare other companies into taking stronger security measures, some cybersecurity experts said.

• The FTC is worried about algorithmic transparency, and you should be too

  It's no secret that algorithms power much of the technology we interact with every day, whether it's to search for information on Google or to browse through a Facebook news feed. What's less widely known is that algorithms also play a role when we a...

• AT&T call centers sold mobile customer information to criminals

  Employees at three overseas call centers sold hundreds of thousands of AT&T customer records, including names and Social Security numbers, to criminals who attempted to use the customer information to unlock stolen mobile phones, the U.S. Federal Com...

• Group fighting 'Net censorship in China presses on despite DDoS attack

  After facing a DDoS attack, an activist group isn't backing down in its attempts to end China's Internet censorship.

• Complaint alleges YouTube Kids pushes advertising content

  The six-week-old YouTube Kids service is a "hyper-commercialized" environment that intermixes advertising and other programming in a way that deceives its target audience, a coalition of privacy and children's advocacy groups said in a complaint to t...

• Senator wants bomb-making information removed from the Internet

  After two U.S. women were charged this week with conspiring to build bombs in support of terrorist groups, a U.S. senator wants two publications that include bomb-making instructions deleted from the Internet.

• Thousands comment on proposed drone regulations

  The Federal Aviation Administration has received over 2,000 comments on its proposed rules for commercial drone flights in the U.S.

• Chinese Internet authority clashes with Google over digital certificates

  A Chinese Internet administrator blasted Google on Thursday, after the U.S. search giant decided to stop recognizing digital certificates issued by the group following a security lapse.

• As Uber cries foul in Europe, EC advises it to first follow the law

  Uber Technologies needs to operate within existing laws, the European Commission said on Wednesday giving an update about complaints filed by the U.S. taxi hailing company against EU governments.

• EPIC appeals to court for FAA drone privacy rules

  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) asked an appeals court on Tuesday to force the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to come up with privacy rules concerning drones.

• Thousands call on Congress to overturn net neutrality rules

  Opponents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality rules aren't giving up, with a conservative advocacy group saying it has collected more than 540,000 signatures on a petition asking Congress to overturn the agency's action...

• Abolish geoblocking? Not so fast, says EU digital Commissioner

  The European Commission last week announced it plans to eliminate geoblocking in order to let everyone in the European Union tune in to the same movies at the same time and allow more cross-border shopping. One of the EU's digital Commissioners, thou...