US Tech Policy News Today
Decisions made in Washington increasingly shape what technology companies can build and sell. This section follows US legislation, executive actions, AI and privacy rules, semiconductor policy, and congressional scrutiny of major platforms. It is for readers who want to track the evolving relationship between the US government and the tech industry.
Coverage regularly includes AI governance proposals and executive orders, semiconductor subsidies and export controls, privacy and children's-safety bills, and hearings where tech executives face lawmakers. Court challenges to new rules and the lobbying battles around them are part of the story as well.
American policy matters globally because so many of the world's dominant platforms, chipmakers, and AI labs are US companies. Compliance teams, investors, and foreign governments all parse Washington's moves, and shifts between administrations can redirect billions of dollars in industry investment almost overnight.
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
2026-04-14Google has introduced a new spam policy targeting back button hijacking, which will subject offending websites to manual spam actions or automated demotions in search results. This update arrives as users express growing frustration over declining search quality, unpredictable indexing, and a broader shift away from prioritizing traditional organic web content.
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
2026-04-14Backblaze has silently updated its policy to exclude cloud-synced folders like OneDrive and Dropbox from its backup services. This change has sparked significant backlash from users who rely on the software to protect against accidental overwrites and data loss caused by bidirectional sync errors. Many frustrated customers are now threatening to cancel their subscriptions, arguing that excluding these directories defeats the core purpose of an independent backup solution.