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Ron Johnson running for reelection to Senate from Wisconsin

Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said Sunday he will run for reelection to the U.S. Senate in November.

January 9, 2022

Pelosi not giving up on persuading Manchin to enact Biden agenda

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she still believes President Biden's agenda can reach the finish line with the help of Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat.

January 9, 2022

Jan. 6 committee member floats proposal to block Trump from a potential return to White House

Rep. Jamie Raskin suggested Sunday that Donald Trump could be blocked from returning to the Oval Office if the Democratic-controlled Jan. 6 committee rules that the former president was complicit in "organizing" or "participating" in last year's attack on the Capitol.

January 9, 2022

CDC director disputes Justice Sotomayor’s claim about kids seriously ill with COVID-19

A top Biden administration health official on Sunday contradicted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's claim about the number of kids seriously ill with COVID-19.

January 9, 2022

Ransomware attack on tech platform Finalsite disrupts 5,000 schools’ websites

Ransomware is joining the winter storms and coronavirus fears on the list of problems that have already disrupted schools across the country in the new year.

January 7, 2022

China wins data wars unless American businesses, universities team with U.S. gov’t: Pentagon officer

The American government must have successful relationships with academia and the business sector in order to win the ongoing data competition with China, according to David Spirk, the Department of Defense's chief data officer.

January 5, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Facebook censoring her, following Twitter ban

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, said Monday that Facebook had joined Twitter in censoring her speech online.

January 3, 2022

Rand Paul says he’s leaving Big Tech platforms, starting with YouTube

Sen. Rand Paul said Monday he will stop using Big Tech platforms and is ditching Google-owned YouTube first over concerns about censorship of speech online.

January 3, 2022

Head of conservative activist group Judicial Watch says Chinese-owned TikTok permanently banned him

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said he was permanently banned from TikTok, the popular social media video platform with China-based ownership.

January 3, 2022

Fears grow that cyber chaos will spark wars as hack attacks become more aggressive

National Cyber Director John C. Inglis told the House Oversight and Reform Committee in November that a cyberattack is typically considered an act of war when it achieves the same amount of damage as a kinetic weapon, including things like the 'loss of health safety, national security of a significant nature.' Some cyberattacks have come dangerously close to Mr. Inglis' generic definition of cyber warfare.

January 1, 2022

Upstart companies take on Big Tech rather than wait for action from Washington

Tech entrepreneurs are tired of waiting for Washington to challenge Big Tech and so they are doing it themselves.

December 29, 2021

Accused Russian hacker extradited to the U.S., four others charged

A Russian accused of computer hacking as part of an illegal trading scheme was extradited from Switzerland to the U.S., the Justice Department said Monday.

December 20, 2021

Cyber vulnerabilities overwhelming security professionals in government and industry

Making sense of ongoing cyberattacks and the villains responsible is overwhelming professionals in government and business alike.

December 16, 2021

U.S. blacklists China’s premier drone maker, seven others over government ties

The Treasury Department on Thursday blacklisted eight Chinese companies, including global drone market leader DJI Technology, as part of a campaign to punish what U.S. officials say is corporate support for Beijing's illicit surveillance of minority Uyghurs and other Chinese ethnic and religious groups.

December 16, 2021

Klobuchar wants Senate to start work on antitrust tech crackdown in January

The Democratic leader of the Senate's antitrust panel wants Congress to stop pestering tech executives and start advancing legislation taking aim at the industry's dominant players.

December 15, 2021

China, Iran accused of exploiting new Log4J hack to invade U.S. systems

Cybersecurity professionals say China, Iran, and other nations' hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the open-source logging platform Apache Log4J to get a foothold into networks they intend to breach in the future.

December 15, 2021

LinkedIn offers stripped-down service in China in face of official repression

Microsoft this week opened a new stripped-down version of its LinkedIn app in China that is specially designed to exclude free expression online, in submission to the communist country's rules.

December 14, 2021

Amazon says overwhelmed networking devices caused outage

The Amazon Web Services outage that disrupted a slew of industries last week was caused by an automated process that overwhelmed its networking devices, according to Amazon.

December 13, 2021

Warren urges DOJ, SEC to launch criminal, civil probes of Facebook

Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants the Biden administration to open criminal and civil investigations into Facebook allegedly misleading customers about the reach of its advertisements.

December 9, 2021

Senators propose to force social media platforms to reveal internal data

A bipartisan Senate proposal introduced Thursday would require social media platforms to give researchers access to internal data with the intent of giving the public a peek behind the curtain of how prominent tech platforms do business.

December 9, 2021