Technology

Former President Trump is blaming President Biden for a law that might ban TikTok in the U.S. The law was approved by the House as part of a bigger foreign aid package. Trump stated on Truth Social on Monday that Biden is to blame for the TikTok ban, especially addressing young people.

The European Commission is investigating TikTok over a feature that launched in France and Spain that offers users the ability to earn points for completing certain tasks on the app, the commission said Monday. The investigation will look into whether TikTok’s “addictive” features of its “TikTok lite” program violated the European Union’s Digital Service Act…

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed his desire to move the U.S. budget onto blockchain, a record of transactions commonly linked with bitcoin and other digital currencies. “I'm going to transfer the complete U.S. budget onto blockchain so that any American – every American – can view every budget item at any time.

Last month, the House passed legislation that would force ByteDance, the Chinese-owned parent company of TikTok, to sell the popular app or be banned in the U.S.  The bill was then flipped over to the Senate side, where it has an unclear future.  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made waves when he merged an adjusted measure…

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk spoke out against the effort to ban TikTok in the U.S., saying it would be in conflict with the First Amendment and it is “not what America stands for.”  Musk added that while the ban would likely benefit social media platform X — which he purchased in October 2022 —…

Elon Musk says, 'We are just being very cautious.'