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More countries are joining the growing list of governments banning TikTok on official devices, and pressure is building up on U.S. plans to implement a blanket ban on the popular video app.

Three states are suing to block security rules for water facilities. If they win, it may open the floodgates for challenges to other cyber rules.

Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates.

“We have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons,” President Joe Biden said last month in the immediate aftermath of the Nashville shooting.

A group of influential figures from Silicon Valley and the larger tech community released an open letter this week calling for a pause in the development

Commercial concerns and worries about competition with China make it unlikely that any meaningful slowdown in AI development is on the horizon

A group of influential figures from Silicon Valley and the larger tech community released an open letter this week calling for a pause in the development of powerful artificial intelligence programs, arguing that they present unpredictable dangers to society. The organization that created the open letter, the Future of Life Institute, said the recent rollout…

Washington - At a March 23 product launch in Shanghai, Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its signature P60 series of smartphones with high-end cameras

At a March 23 product launch in Shanghai, Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its signature P60 series of smartphones with high-end cameras and its Mate X3 series mobile phones equipped with folding screens. There were demonstrations. There were speeches. But something was missing from the Huawei offerings: 5G, which gives phones the speedy internet access…

The U.S. is considering banning the hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok, over concerns that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to national security. What’s to fear about TikTok?