Facebook takes down Trump ads over ‘organized hate’ policy

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organized hate.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-trump/facebook-takes-down-trump-ads-over-organized-hate-policy-idUSKBN23P3AH?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Semiconductor manufacturers reach deal to supply U.S. defense chips

Globalfoundries and SkyWater Technology have reached a deal to supply semiconductor chips to the U.S. defense industry and work on new technology, the companies said on Thursday, as the industry moves toward more U.S. manufacturing.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-semiconductors/semiconductor-manufacturers-reach-deal-to-supply-u-s-defense-chips-idUSKBN23P3BQ?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Robinhood trading app back online after major outage

Robinhood Markets Inc, the fintech startup credited with helping popularize trading with millennials, said on Thursday it resolved an issue that had caused a “major outage” on its platform earlier in the day.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-robinhood-outage/robinhood-trading-app-back-online-after-major-outage-idUSKBN23P30K?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

U.S. House panel hears from Facebook, Google, Twitter on election security

Top officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter were grilled by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a virtual hearing on foreign influence and election security ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential contest.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-security/u-s-house-panel-hears-from-facebook-google-twitter-on-election-security-idUSKBN23P31P?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Robinhood trading app experiences outage, back online

Robinhood Markets Inc, the fintech startup credited with helping popularize trading with millennials, said on Thursday it experienced a major trading outage and that while its systems were back online, it was still working to resolve the problem.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-robinhood-outage/robinhood-trading-app-experiences-outage-back-online-idUSKBN23P30K?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

UK ditches homegrown COVID-19 tracing app to use Google-Apple model

Britain will switch to the Apple and Google model for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app, ditching an attempt to develop an app by itself after the homegrown system did not work well enough on Apple’s iPhone, the government said on Thursday.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-app/uk-ditches-homegrown-covid-19-tracing-app-to-use-google-apple-model-idUSKBN23P273?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

France’s top court rejects core of law targeting online hate speech

France’s top court rejected most of a draft law that would have compelled social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to remove any hateful content within 24 hours, it said on Thursday.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-regulation/frances-top-court-rejects-core-of-law-targeting-online-hate-speech-idUSKBN23P32O?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

No date for release of test-and-trace app in UK, minister says

Britain’s health minister declined on Thursday to set a date for when a smartphone app to help trace people who have been in contact with a person infected with the new coronavirus would be rolled out.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-app-date/no-date-for-release-of-test-and-trace-app-in-uk-minister-says-idUSKBN23P31H?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Robinhood says experiencing major trading outage

Robinhood Markets Inc, the fintech startup credited with helping popularize trading with millennials, said on Thursday it was experiencing a “major outage” in equities and options trading, as well as “degraded performance” in cryptocurrency trading.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-robinhood-outage/robinhood-says-experiencing-major-trading-outage-idUSKBN23P30K?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Facebook sues individuals for offering to extract data, gather likes

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it filed lawsuits against individuals in Europe and the United States for abusing its platforms to offer automated tools for scraping users’ personal data and gathering likes.

source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-lawsuit/facebook-sues-individuals-for-offering-to-extract-data-gather-likes-idUSKBN23P2VE?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews