Law & Regulation
China's Top Memory Chipmaker Sues the Pentagon
CXMT sued the Pentagon on August 28 after a blacklist listing that reversed twice in five months. What the case means for buyers of CXMT-equipped devices.
Law & Regulation
Law & Regulation
Meta's Teen Limit Halves If Rivals Match It
Meta's $17 billion settlement with 47 US states cuts its own new teen usage limit in half the moment YouTube, TikTok, or Snap match it.
Law & Regulation
Google Pays A Quarter Of What UK Developers Sought
Google agreed on August 27 to pay GBP 260 million to settle a UK Play Store class action, about a quarter of the GBP 1 billion originally sought. What it means for developers.
Law & Regulation
Six EU States Want Oil Windfall Tax Revived
Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Austria have asked Ireland's EU presidency to put an oil windfall tax framework on the September 18-19 ECOFIN agenda in Dublin.
Law & Regulation
Washington Weighs Tariffs on Laptops, Not Just Chips
The Trump administration is weighing tariffs on laptops, consoles and servers, not just chips, with relief tied to US chip investment. What EU and UK buyers should watch.
Law & Regulation
Chat Control Becomes Law Without a Single Yes Vote
Parliament voted 314 to 276 to reject Chat Control 1.0's extension, short of the 360 votes needed. The measure passed into law anyway, and stays in force until April 2028.
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A Freight Giant's Unit Faces a Chip Smuggling Probe
The US Commerce Department is investigating Kuehne+Nagel unit Apex Logistics over 47 shipments suspected of routing Nvidia AI chips to China via Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Law & Regulation
Momenta Beat Waymo to Germany's KBA Approval
Waymo says manual mapping starts in Munich within weeks, aiming for a robotaxi launch by end of 2027. It still lacks the KBA approval a Chinese rival, Momenta, secured four weeks earlier.
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Florida Rejects Meta's Deal, Bets On A Jury Instead
Florida walked away from Meta's roughly $18 billion child-safety settlement while Texas and New Mexico secured separate, in places tougher, deals - leaving the compliance standard EU and UK operators were told to benchmark against still contested at trial.
Law & Regulation
Slovakia's Law: The Verifier Learns Nothing
Slovakia's cabinet approved a draft law banning social media accounts for under-16s, built so the age-check provider learns only a yes-or-no signal, never a user's identity or platform.
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Meta Must Now Prove Its Age Checks Actually Work
Meta will pay up to $18 billion (about $12.7 billion guaranteed plus a $5 billion contingent tranche) to settle child-safety claims from 47 states, but the settlement's real weight is a testable age-assurance standard: independently tested, no more than 10 percent false positives.
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TikTok, ByteDance Settle for $400 Million
The US Justice Department secured a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance over children's privacy law violations, paid even after the company changed its practices.
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The Operator Brief
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