In advance of the third substantive session of the UN Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security, Germany has published its position paper o...
Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey listed his first tweet as a unique digital signature on a website for selling tweets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), according to a Reuters report. Dorsey's first ever tweet 'just setting up my twitt...
Republican Senator Josh Hawley announced his introduction of a new legislation proposal to ban government employees from using TikTok. Hawley claims that the social video platform shares user data with the Chinese government. He a...
Specialists at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland (USA) and pharmaceutical companies Editas Medicine of Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), and Allergan of Dublin (Ireland) are conducting a clinical trial, called B...
Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Daren Tang has won the nomination to become Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Tang prevailed in the second and final round of ...
The constituent court of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the General Court of the EU is hearing the case of the European Commission against Amazon claiming it received illegal tax benefits from Luxembourg. The c...
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Malaysia said it had not issued any advice on COVID-19 prevention via messaging apps. The organisation tweeted that it 'is NOT issuing any advice/tips about#Coron...
The European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) has published a statement calling on the EU to revise its regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) so that they do not stifle innovation in the sector of genome-E...
Representatives from the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have released a set of 11 voluntary principles on how online tech companies can stop the spread of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The...
Six Democratic and four Republican senators in the USA have introduced a bipartisan legislation Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act. The bill proposes to create incentives for co...
US audio company Sonos has announced that it is doing away with its controversial 'recycle mode', a requirement of its Trade Up program that encourages users to take their old devices to an e-waste centre for recycling in exchange...
According to the BBC, a Virgin Media database containing the personal information of 900,000 was left unsecured and accessible online for 10 months. Containing names, phone numbers and home addresses, this database was accessed by...