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Next week’s Hollywood fundraiser for President Biden, his first in-person soiree here since the end of the entertainment-industry strikes dried up the traditional wellspring of campaign money, is expected to draw big-name donors spending as much as nearly $930,000 each in support of the Democratic leader’s bid for reelection. Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and…

In October, TikTok Shop shut down in Indonesia to comply with new rules in South East Asia’s biggest economy.

AI-generated fake advertisements are making the rounds on social media again, this time using the voice and likeness of Taylor Swift promising free Le Creuset cookware sets. As any proper Swiftie knows, the “Hoax” singer is fan of Le Creuset. In the pop star’s 2020 documentary “Miss Americana,” she whipped up some pasta sauce in…

@dudewithsign is a popular Instagram account that features a tall man in sunglasses holding up a cardboard sign in various public places. Except instead of a serious protest message, the sign has a funny aphorism about modern life, like “Who TF is writing Yelp reviews” or “You can cold plunge without telling everyone.” The eponymous…

Updated Jan. 7, 2024 12:01 am ET SINGAPORE—After U.S. regulations barred Nvidia from selling its high-performance artificial-intelligence chips to China in October, the company’s engineers quickly designed a new lineup to comply with the tightened rules. The U.S. tech company may have found some wiggle room, but it faces a bigger problem: Chinese cloud companies—some…

The hidden devices remain available despite being at the centre of a US case against the firm.