Cody Sigel Combs

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Future Editor at The National in the UAE
Former investigative journalist & general assignment reporter
Syracuse-Newhouse grad
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• How Tim Cook’s calm departure fulfills a wish from Steve Jobs
• Why #AI sovereignty is getting a more critical look
• What Anthropic’s London expansion really means
• Whoop takes a victory lap

All this & more in the latest Future Beat

➡️ https://www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/future-beat/

#tech #News

💻 Why Apple still stirs up strong emotions

🌍 How Iran’s cyber battle plan is shaping the ongoing conflict

☢️ The AI induced nuclear renaissance meets a harsh reality

📉 New poll shows more AI anxiety from Gen Z

🔗 We cover it all in Future Beat…

https://www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/future-beat/

#News #Technology #AI

Iran linked hacking group Handala posts photographs of FBI director Kash Patel

Full story https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/2026/03/27/iran-hack-fbi-kash-patel-handala/

#Iran #Technology #cybersecurity #news

Tried to get a response from FII Institite about this, but still curious about what happened to the “candid session” that was supposed to take place with Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of the highly scrutinized and now defunct company, Builder.AI

Appeared on early agenda in September, but vanished from final October agenda

#Technology #AI #News

The developer of ICEBlock, the app that Apple recently removed from its App Store, pointed out to me that Apple's own Maps app allows for people to report law enforcement activity such as speed checks ...

He said this undermines Apple's justification for removing ICEBlock

"The Apple Maps app does literally the exact same thing that ICEBlock did," Joshua Aaron said

#Technology #Politics #Apple

Full story ⬇️

https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/10/14/ice-locator-app-iceblock-apple/

China has quite a different interpretation of the conversation with Trump about a “TikTok deal”

#Technology #Politics #News

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025/09/19/trump-tiktok-deal-approval-china-xi/

#Tech executives from Meta, Google and TikTok were in Washington District Court on Wednesday to appear in high-level cases that could dramatically change the US tech business landscape

https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/04/30/googles-sundar-pichai-takes-the-stand-against-doj-while-tiktok-is-called-as-witness-in-meta-trial/

Google's Sundar Pichai takes the stand against DOJ while TikTok is called as witness in Meta trial

Stakes are high in two technology court cases in Washington

The National

• Why Microsoft is doubling down on its partnership with the UAE
• What really happened during the meeting between Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Donald Trump
• Is it time to revive the woolly mammoth and the dodo?

📰 That's just a sample of what you can expect in our latest edition of Future Beat: Your round-up of the stories shaping tomorrow’s world ⬇️

https://www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/future-beat/

#tech #news #AI

Future Beat

Your round-up of the stories shaping tomorrow’s world

The National News

🚨BREAKING: TikTok gets a small win as the Supreme Court agrees to hear the embattled social media platform’s challenge to a law that could see it banned in the U.S.

#Technology #Politics

So it has come down to this ... the legal equivalent to a high-noon showdown for TikTok at the Supreme Court. That is, of course, unless Donald Trump will convince congress to repeal the bipartisan divestment legislation that it passed several months ago

What do you think?

Will the Supreme Court uphold the law that essentially bans the world's most popular social media platform in the US?

Here's our latest reporting https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2024/12/17/tiktok-appeals-supreme-court/

#Technology

TikTok officially appeals ban to Supreme Court after Donald Trump airs support

ByteDance says small businesses and creators would lose more than $1 billion if US ban is enacted

The National