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Shop online@marshalls.com here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Friday, October 10th Julie I'm Julie Cheng for the Wall Street Journal. President Trump today threatened to raise tariffs and impose export controls on China after Beijing announced new restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals this week. Rare earths are critical components of semiconductors, electric vehicles and more. U.S. stocks fell sharply in response to the threat of new tariffs, with the Nasdaq falling more than 2.8% by late afternoon. Amazon shares fell about 4%. Many of the items for sale on Amazon come from third party sellers source their products from Chinese factories. Meanwhile, shares in European semiconductor companies declined as well. Shares of Dutch chipmaking equipment supplier ASML and small arrival ASM International were down more than 2%, and shares of STMicroelectronics, whose clients include Tesla and Apple, fell nearly 4.5%. The European Union is examining children's online safety efforts by YouTube, Apple and Snapchat under the bloc's content moderation law. The EU's executive arm, the European Commission, has asked for information on the company's age verification systems and on how they prevent minors from seeing harmful material. YouTube parent Google said it's worked with experts to build age appropriate experiences. A Snapchat spokesperson said they'll provide the necessary information to the commission, and Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. And in the uk, the nation's competition enforcer has named Google as a company it needs to keep an eye on under its new competition law law due to the company's dominant search and advertising business. This means Google will have to follow a bespoke set of rules on its platforms. Google's Gemini artificial intelligence chat assistant won't be affected, but the company's other AI based search features like AI Overviews will be. And that's a wrap on your TNB Tech minutes. Check back Monday morning for another quick tech update.