China scored big trade wins as the US pushed ahead with its protectionist moves.

Beijing reached agreements with the EU and Canada to allow more Chinese-made electric vehicles into both markets, while Britain’s prime minister will travel to China soon to revive business cooperation. Germany’s chancellor is also expected to visit next month.

Even the world’s greatest climber can’t scale a skyscraper slick with rain — especially without ropes or a safety net.

World-renowned rock climber and Free Solo star Alex Honnold was slated to attempt a daring ascent of Taipei 101, one of Asia‘s tallest buildings — at 9 a.m. local time in Taipei on Saturday, or 8 p.m. ET, on Friday — in an event broadcast globally as Skyscraper Live, Netflix’s latest foray into live sports programming.

But as the sun rose on Taipei Saturday morning and revealed a cityscape drenched by a steady drizzle, it was clear the spectacle was in jeopardy.

The European Union said Tuesday it plans to phase out gear supplied by companies based in “high risk” countries from critical infrastructure such as high-speed telecom networks, in a move seen as targeting Chinese companies including Huawei and ZTE.

Brussels’ proposed measures to tighten up cybersecurity come amid rising concerns that the bloc’s 27 member countries are vulnerable both to the dominance of Chinese high tech manufacturing and U.S. Big Tech services.

ShinyHunters claim to have leaked millions of records from SoundCloud and Crunchbase after failed extortion attempts, with possible links to an Okta vishing campaign.

The notorious ShinyHunters hackers are back in the news. The group has set up a dark web .onion leak site and has published alleged partial databases linked to three companies. These include SoundCloud, a global audio streaming platform, Crunchbase, which provides data on private and public companies, and Betterment, an American financial advisory company.

Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday that it will be ”temporarily pausing teens’ access to existing AI characters globally.”

The pause comes months after Meta added chatbot-focused parental controlsfollowing reports that some of Meta’s character chatbots had engaged in sexual conversations and other alarming interactions with teens. Reuters reported on an internal Meta policy document that said the chatbots were permitted to have ”sensual” conversations with underage users, language Meta later said was ”erroneous and inconsistent with our policies.” The company announced in August that it was re-training its character chatbots to add ”guardrails as an extra precaution” that would prevent teens from discussing self harm, disordered eating and suicide.

Landman got a happy ending when season two concluded on Sunday.

After a devastating penultimate episode, the mega-hit Paramount+ oil drama starring Billy Bob Thornton drilled on with its season finale, as Tommy Norris (Thornton) got son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) out of legal trouble for retaliating against the man who attacked his fiancée Ariana (Paulina Chávez) and moved onto his next threat: Demi Moore’s Cami, who had just fired Tommy as president from M-Tex Oil.