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Those caught face a jail sentence and a hefty fine.

“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary suggested that he will buy social media platform TikTok if a proposed ban goes ahead Friday. “Not going to get banned, ‘cause I’m gonna buy it,” O’Leary said on Fox News’ “The Story” in an interview with anchor Gillian Turner. “Somebody’s going to buy it, it won’t be Meta and…

Sam Altman, the CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, was reinstated to its board of directors following an investigation Friday. “We have unanimously concluded that Sam and [president of OpenAI Greg Brockman] are the right leaders for OpenAI,” Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board, said in a Friday blog post. Altman was fired…

President Biden said Friday he would support a quickly moving bipartisan bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes the legislation. “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden told reporters Friday, referring to the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill from Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) advanced out of the…

Scientists reviewed seismic data collected during the 2014 fireball landing near Papua New Guinea.

Russian hackers have been attempting to breach Microsoft’s systems in recent weeks, using stolen information they acquired in an earlier hack, the company said Friday. The hackers, which Microsoft identified as a Russian state-sponsored group known as Midnight Blizzard, have been “using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to…