Tech Policy

ICANN will accept applications for new generic top-level domains from April 30 to August 12, 2026, the first such window since 2012, with a $227,000 evaluation fee per application.

One year after Liberation Day, the collision of Trump-era tariffs with hyperscaler memory hoarding has pushed PC prices up 15-20 percent, forced vendors to exit budget segments, and reshaped the consumer electronics supply chain.

A DOJ final rule requires state and local governments serving 50,000-plus residents to make all digital services WCAG 2.1 AA compliant by April 24, 2026.

China's Announcement 18 export controls on seven rare earth elements remain permanently active, disrupting defense supply chains and forcing the U.S. to accelerate a mine-to-magnet strategy still years from completion.

A presidential proclamation replaces flat-rate Section 232 duties with a five-tier framework imposing up to 50 percent tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper imports, effective April 6.

The UK government is redesigning data.gov.uk after finding a quarter of its links broken, shifting from uncurated volume to a curated, AI-ready service as part of a 1.9 billion pound digital push.

The CFPB's April 1 compliance deadline for its landmark Personal Financial Data Rights rule passed without enforcement after a federal judge enjoined the regulation and the agency itself declared it unlawful, leaving the future of U.S. open banking to a market moving faster than its regulators.

The FCC seeks public comment on dedicated drone spectrum bands, streamlined experimental licensing, and new innovation zones as part of the Trump administration's push to replace banned foreign drones with domestic alternatives.

Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for addictive platform design and child safety failures, awarding $381 million and setting a legal precedent for thousands of pending cases.

A proposed ban on stablecoin yield payments has triggered a lobbying war between banks and crypto exchanges, with billions in deposits and a new financial architecture at stake.

California, New York, and Connecticut have enacted laws restricting algorithmic rent-setting tools, while the DOJ's landmark settlement with RealPage forces the industry to abandon real-time competitor data sharing.

A New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for enabling child exploitation, and a California bellwether jury found both Meta and YouTube negligent in designing addictive platforms that harmed a minor.