James Farrell

1 week ago | siliconangle.com | James Farrell

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg put $450 million on the table late in March, hoping it would be enough to settle its antitrust case with the Federal Trade Commission, according to The Wall Street Journal. According to people familiar with the matter who spoke with The Journal on the condition of anonymity, the offer was quickly rebuffed.

2 weeks ago | siliconangle.com | James Farrell

President Donald Trump today ratcheted up his efforts to go after his critics, telling the Justice Department to investigate former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, Chris Krebs, as well as whistleblower, “Anonymous” author, Miles Taylor. “I think he’s guilty of treason if you want to know the truth, but we’ll find out … terrible guy,” Trump said after signing the presidential memoranda in the Oval Office to launch the DOJ investigations.

2 weeks ago | siliconangle.com | James Farrell

Tariffs on Chinese products are set to rise to at least 104% today after President Trump warned the U.S. would strike back after China retaliated with its own tariff increase. China vowed to “fight to the end,” introducing a retaliatory tariff package after which Trump said he’d tack another 50% onto the 54%. “It was a mistake for China to retaliate,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “The president, when America is punched, he punches back harder.

2 weeks ago | siliconangle.com | James Farrell

The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal today rejected a bid from the Home Office to keep an ongoing case against Apple Inc. over iPhone users’ encrypted data away from the eyes of the public. The Home Office is fighting to access information secured by Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system, citing the Investigatory Powers Act, which it hopes will force Apple to open a technical “backdoor.” This has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and a handful of U.S. politicians.

2 weeks ago | siliconangle.com | James Farrell

Regulators in Europe are considering fining Elon Musk’s X Corp. $1 billion, according to a report in the New York Times today. The report is based on information provided to the Times by four insiders who each declined to give their names or get into the specifics of a current investigation. The broader allegation is that X has breached Europe’s strict internet law, the Digital Services Act. The act is designed to tame what the EU, as well as the U.K., have claimed is the “Wild West” of online life.