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Trump’s commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs coming

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tariff exemptions announced Friday on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday. White House officials, including President Donald Trump himself, spent Sunday downplaying the significance of exemptions

Trump team tries to project confidence and calm after his tariff moves rattled markets

ATLANTA (AP) — Trump administration officials were out in force across the television networks Sunday defending President Donald Trump’s economic policies after another week of reeling markets that saw the Republican administration reverse course on some of its steepest tariffs. Trump, meanwhile, said on his social media platform that there ultimately will be no exemptions

Some top tech leaders have embraced Trump. That’s created a political divide in Silicon Valley

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Like many in the tech industry, Jeremy Lyons used to think of himself as a relatively apolitical guy. The only time he had participated in a demonstration before now was in the opening days of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, when he joined fellow Google workers walking out of the

Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young

PARIS (AP) — After his arrest, the boy’s mother was stunned to discover that her 12-year-old had been learning how to kill and gorging on videos of decapitation and torture so gruesome they made even case-hardened French court officials look away. The mother told criminal investigators that she’d thought her son had been playing video

Japanese leader says he hopes Osaka expo will help reunite a divided world

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, speaking at Saturday’s opening ceremony for the Osaka expo, expressed his hope that the event will help restore global unity in a world plagued by conflicts and trade wars. “The world, having overcome the coronavirus pandemic, is now threatened by an array of divisions,” Ishiba said.

Irish privacy watchdog investigates Elon Musk’s X’s use of personal data to train Grok AI chatbot

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s data privacy watchdog said Friday it’s investigating Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its use of personal data to train his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. The Data Protection Commission said it has opened an inquiry into “the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts” that European users posted on

Apple has few incentives to start making iPhones in U.S., despite Trump’s trade war with China

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for the first time. But that’s an unlikely scenario even with U.S tariffs now standing at 145% on products made in China — the country where Apple

Hackers breach Morocco’s social security database in an unprecedented cyberattack

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco ‘s social security agency said troves of data were stolen from its systems in a cyberattack this week that resulted in personal information being leaked on the messaging app Telegram. The North African kingdom’s social security fund administers pensions and insurance benefits to millions of private sector workers, from assembly

OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in legal dispute over ChatGPT maker’s business ambitions

OpenAI is suing Elon Musk for unfair competition and interfering with its business relationships with investors and customers, escalating a legal battle between the ChatGPT maker and the billionaire who helped bankroll the artificial intelligence startup a decade ago. The allegations against Musk were filed Wednesday in a federal court in California as a counterclaim

One Tech Tip: Locking down your device when crossing borders

LONDON (AP) — Planning an international trip? Travelers should prepare for the possibility of extra scrutiny of their phones when crossing borders, especially when entering the United States. The Canadian government warned travelers in a recent travel advisory that U.S. border agents are entitled to search your electronic devices and “don’t need to provide a

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Trump’s commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs coming

Trump team tries to project confidence and calm after his tariff moves rattled markets

Some top tech leaders have embraced Trump. That’s created a political divide in Silicon Valley

Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young

Japanese leader says he hopes Osaka expo will help reunite a divided world

Irish privacy watchdog investigates Elon Musk’s X’s use of personal data to train Grok AI chatbot

Apple has few incentives to start making iPhones in U.S., despite Trump’s trade war with China

Hackers breach Morocco’s social security database in an unprecedented cyberattack

OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in legal dispute over ChatGPT maker’s business ambitions

One Tech Tip: Locking down your device when crossing borders