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Data in transit means data is at risk if the proper precautions aren't followed. Data stored inside a securely monitored environment is much less likely to fall into the wrong hands than data exchanged between people and systems.

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The ByteDance-owned platform, which currently stores European user data in the U.S. and Singapore, said the revision is part of its ongoing data governance efforts to limit employee access to users in the region, minimize data flows outside of it, and store the information locally. "Based on a demonstrated need to do their job, subject to a series of robust security controls and approval protocols, and by way of methods that are recognised under the GDPR, we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the U.S. remote access to TikTok European user data," the company said.

Attempts to reorganize supply chains to cut out China and foil its attempts to build a high-tech chip industry will be costly and may simply cause the Middle Kingdom to redouble its efforts, says memory maker Kioxia. Flores said China would likely retaliate against the recently announced US export controls by ramping up domestic investment in NAND as a long-term solution to its chip supply issues.

Microsoft has acknowledged a known issue where copying files/shortcuts using Group Policy Preferences on Windows client devices might not work as expected after installing recent Windows cumulative updates released during this month's Patch Tuesday. On affected systems, files or shortcuts will not copy to the target drives or end up as zero-byte files when using Group Policy file operations.

The Windows 10 KB5017308 cumulative update released this Patch Tuesday is reportedly causing Group Policy Object issues, according to admin reports. "Running Windows Update Standalone Installer with the /uninstall switch on the combined package will not work because the combined package contains the SSU. You cannot remove the SSU from the system after installation."

The new Microsoft Edge 105 is not starting for many Windows users due to a deprecated group policy used to disable reporting of usage and crash-related data to Microsoft. On Thursday, Microsoft Edge 105 was released with numerous enhancements, including enhanced security mode improvements and new group policies.