The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter hailed their companies’ efforts to fend off election interference, but skeptical senators warned them that tougher regulation of social media could be coming.18
A state-led consortium is taking over the budget brand as the Chinese telecom company blamed pressure on its consumer business from component shortages caused by U.S. curbs on its supply chain.
Tsinghua Unigroup, a key player in China’s push for self-reliance in semiconductors, has defaulted on a bond, adding to a recent spate of trouble in the country’s corporate debt markets.8
Twitter is launching a new feature that will allow users to post text, audio and video that disappears after 24 hours, one of a number of steps the company is taking to increase engagement.
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Auto-grading systems adopted in many districts were supposed to save time by using bots to score tests. But parents and teachers say the software leads to grading errors and requires them to double-check the bots’ work.40
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said in a report made public Monday that “known IT deficiencies” at the agency’s law enforcement arm prevented it from accurately tracking family members detained during the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy in 2018.
Businesses could be forced to adopt strict encryption practices and ensure the personal data of Europeans can’t be decrypted if companies move that information to the U.S. and other countries outside the EU, the draft rules said.
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