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In just 11 days, a British court will decide whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US where he will face trial on espionage charges.

The United States has passed a US$95 billion security bill that includes a provision to ban the Chinese short-video app TikTok - but only after the next presidential election.

The union representing journalists in Australia has urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to publicly call on the American government to drop its charges against WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

In the same way that a hungry traveller who has been wandering in the wilderness without food or water for months would grab at any sustenance, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has leapt upon a throwaway remark from US President Joe Biden about freedom for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

As the US Congress deliberates actions against TikTok, a wider discourse on data privacy and sales comes to the forefront. The discussion extends beyond TikTok’s fate, encompassing broader concerns regarding data usage and its implications, says data and analysis company GlobalData.

What has the Australian Government achieved by placing sanctions on Russian attacker Aleksandr Ermakov for allegedly being the main person behind the intrusion into health insurer Medibank?

The world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductors has been hit by a further delay to a planned US$40 billion (A$60.85 billion) factory in Arizona, with the plant now due to come on stream only in 2027 or 2028.

Sixteen American politicians from both sides of the political spectrum have written to US President Joe Biden asking him to end the bid to have WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange extradited to the US for prosecution.

The US has put in place further restrictions on China, aiming to reduce the flow of American investment to firms that it claims could help boost Beijing's armed forces.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange is unlikely to be released by the US until the 2024 presidential elections are done. That is the main takeaway from American statements on Saturday, refusing to accede to Australia's timid requests for his freedom.

Former NSW premier Bob Carr has taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the delay in the US freeing WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, questioning why, if a request has been refused, the PM has not asked the US a second time.

Microsoft is continuing to obfuscate about a recent attack on its Azure cloud infrastructure, saying a post, that claims danger from the attack still exists, is speculative and not evidence-based.

A British journalist who has, in the past, blown the whistle on WikiLeaks' own ethical lapses, claims the US Department of Justice and the FBI are leaning on his fellow scribes to back the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

The United States has announced the creation of what it calls a Disruptive Technology Strike Force which, among other tasks, will check for criminal violations of export laws.

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has assumed the same role at Twitter, after completing his US$44 billion (A$68.6 billion) takeover of the social media company.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price appears to have forgotten that his country's government is pursuing WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange over publishing material that has embarrassed Washington.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will take his own life if he is extradited to the US, his lawyer Jennifer Robinson says, adding that the situation is very serious and the Australian Government needs to act on it immediately.

Mexico has awarded WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange the keys to its capital, Mexico City, in its latest move to celebrate the Australian's journalism and pressure the Biden administration to act on the pending extradition case.

The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, has given an indication as to how he would run the company, tweeting out that the suspension of the New York Post's Twitter account in 2020 over a story about Hunter Biden was "obviously incredibly inappropriate".

The objections to Elon Musk buying Twitter can be distilled down to one simple thing: his policies will remove the objections to the return of Donald Trump to the platform. Which for the mainstream in the US — and hence the mainstream in all acolyte countries — means the end of civilisation as we know it.