The U.S. Commerce Department has placed two European-based Israeli-owned spyware companies on its trade blacklist, citing national security concerns. Intellexa S.A. in Greece and its entity Intellexa Limited in Ireland, and Cytrox AD in North Macedonia, along with its entity Cytrox Holdings Crt in Hungary, were added to the technology export blacklist, the Commerce Department…

U.S. officials have accused Seagate Technology Holdings of potentially violating export control laws by selling hard disk drives to a customer on a U.S. trade blacklist. Seagate, which manufactures computer hard drives, announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 26 that it had received a “proposed charging letter” from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry…

Commentary Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or…