TSMC looks to build new chip plant. The world’s largest contract chip maker is considering building a multibillion dollar semiconductor factory in Singapore to help address a global supply shortage, people familiar with the matter tell the WSJ. Legislation in Congress would force breakup of Google’s ad business. If passed, the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act would be the most significant change to antitrust law in a generation, antitrust experts tell the Journal. The bill prohibits companies processing more than $20 billion in digital ad transactions annually from participating in more than one part of the digital advertising ecosystem. Google is the dominant player at every link in the chain that connects buyers and sellers of online advertising. Twitter moves to limit spread of misinformation in crises. The company said it won’t amplify or recommend content that contains misleading information and would also add warning notices to certain tweets, including accounts controlled by governments or state-affiliated media. “While this first iteration is focused on international armed conflict, starting with the war in Ukraine, we plan to update and expand the policy to include additional forms of crisis,” Twitter Head of Safety & Integrity Yoel Roth said. Report finds that Microsoft's Bing censors some China-related searches. The search engine's autofill feature fails to make suggestions for terms that could be deemed controversial in Beijing, according to tests by cybersecurity and surveillance group Citizen Lab. “We consistently found that Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese names,” the report said. The missing. Names—including those of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the deceased human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo—did not appear in the autofill system in English or Chinese. Microsoft has blamed a technical error. Not forgotten. Last year, on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, U.S.-based searches on Bing for images and videos of “Tank Man”—a man who stood in front of a column of tanks following the massacre—didn’t show any results. Microsoft blamed it on human error. Tesla Autopilot’s role in deadly vehicle crash probed by safety regulators. U.S. auto-safety regulators have opened a special crash investigation into a fatal wreck involving a Tesla Inc. Model S vehicle that left three people dead. More than 30 incidents involving the electric car maker's semiautonomous driving features are under investigation. Crypto-cough-mining vs. wine imbibing. Politico reports on the battle in New York state over opening old power plants to run energy intentensive crypto-mining operations. Up for vote next month is a bill that would prevent miners from restarting old plants. A full-bodied red with hints of bro-sweat and desperation. Crypto businesses say their efforts would provide jobs to upstate. But local vineyard owners, who also provide jobs, don't like the idea of power plant emissions tainting the terroir. "We’re building a real economy that benefits many, many people versus, frankly, a make-believe economy," one winemaker tells Politico. |