TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests
Divest-or-Sell Order Slated to Go Into Effect Next Month Forbes : Sources: Tim Cook and senior Apple execs have been discussing how best to respond to potential TikTok ban, conceding there is nothing ...
The US releases Russian cybercriminals Roman Seleznev and Vladislav Klyushin as part of a prisoner swap that freed 16 people from Russia
and how Mueller WOULD have proven the GRU hacked Podesta. https://www.emptywheel.net/... Eamon Javers / @eamonjavers : BREAKING: For months, I have been working w/ a great @CNBC team on a new document...
How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing
https://www.ft.com/... Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : Tech solutionism"has..driven the development of wearable devices that track our health metrics and social media platforms that claim to enhance ...
A profile of TSMC founder Morris Chang, who moved from the US to Taiwan in 1985 to build a chip industry behemoth that now sits at the center of a tech Cold War
At 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows. — Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan
Sources: US lobbied against Newport Wafer Fab acquisition by Dutch subsidiary of China's Wingtech, a deal UK allowed, before launching a national security probe
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @stuwoo Tweets: Stu Woo / @stuwoo : What does the U.S.-China tech Cold War look like in practice? I talked to people about how a U.S. diplomat is trying to get the U.K. ...
Q&A with AI Now Institute's Shazeda Ahmed on how the US-China “tech Cold War” narrative allows Big Tech to avoid regulation and how it informs US policy
There is a narrative in Washington, D.C., that we are in the midst of a tech cold war with China. Tweets: @juliaangwin , @nantarsya , @shiraovide , and @themarkup Tweets: Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin :...
The story of CyberBunker, a hosting provider that once hosted The Pirate Bay and a number of dark web sites, whose German facility was raided by police in 2019
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. Tweets: @feikehacquebord , @balumcarnes , @alfonslopezt...
Profile of computer scientist Xia Peisu, who is called the “Mother of Chinese Computing” for shaping some of China's first computer science institutions
& a new field of computer science to support that industry—China needed trained personnel. Here, too, Xia was essential.” —@leilasedai on Xia Peisu (via @BBC_Future) https://www.bbc.com/... Hilde De W...
Profile of computer scientist Xia Peisu, who is called the “Mother of Chinese Computing” for shaping some of China's first computer science institutions
Isolated from the rest of the world, one woman pushed computing from a geeky obsession into a transformative industry. Tweets: @hild_de , @tsmullaney , @drkevorko , @amanda_ruggeri , @mauracunningham ...
When Cold War analogies are misapplied to emerging technologies like AI, the debate about how such technologies should be regulated gets distorted
Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech. Tweets: @wired , @lil_aphasia , @wmdgirl , @nonstrategic , and @moji...