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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the specific action taken by the Commerce Department. The Department of Commerce added computer networking company Sandvine to its blacklist earlier this week, alleging the company supplied equipment “to the Government of Egypt” and engaged in censorship. The department announced Tuesday that it would ban the company from obtaining U.S. technology because of national security concerns. The “Entity List,” which now has seven entries, identifies…

The U.S. government placed two Israeli spyware companies on a blacklist this week, all but totally cutting them off from business opportunities with American firms. The move is yet another attempt by the Biden administration to clean up the ethically bankrupt spyware industry before it spins totally out of control.Sam Bankman-Fried Using a VPN, McDonald’s AI Drive Thru Fails, Buzzfeed AI Quizzes Suck | Editor PicksIntellexa and Cytrox, which have both been described as “Israeli-controlled,” are known for selling shady…

The move builds on sweeping export controls imposed on Beijing in October to slow Beijing's technological and military advances, including measures to curb China's access to US chipmaking tools. The 21 Chinese AI chip entities are being added to the trade blacklist, including Cambricon Technologies Corp and CETC.…

Twitter employees built blacklists and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, according to the second instalment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" that shed light on the company's hidden practices of the previous management. "A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavoured tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics - all in secret, without informing users," said the editor of The Free Press…

The US Department of Defense has added Shenzhen-based consumer drone maker DJI Technology to a list of firms allegedly connected to the Chinese military.The Defense Department last year said that systems produced by Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) pose potential threats to national security.Read AlsoThe fresh list includes Shenzhen Dn Innovation Technology Co, Ltd. (DII) and BGI Genomics Co Ltd (BGI), China's largest genomics firm.The initial list included Huawei Technologies and several other Chinese companies.In a statement…