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Bill Bishop

@niubi
178 posts
2026-01-08
if only there were more engagement from Congress ...scoop from @AsiaLens - China hacked email systems of US congressional committee staff - Beijing's intelligence used Salt Typhoon to access communications used by top panels in US Congress https://www.ft.com/...
2026-01-08 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls

Beijing's intelligence used Salt Typhoon to access communications used by top panels in US Congress

2025-12-18
Sounds like a massive security failure by ASML and the Dutch intelligence services - How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips https://www.reuters.com/... [image]
2025-12-18 View on X
Reuters

Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent …

2025-12-09
Now we get to learn if the rejection of the H20s was just a ploy to hold out for better Nvidia chips, or if Xi had really decided to de-Nvidia the AI stack as fast as possible. Trump said that “Xi responded positively”, so that sounds like Nvidia will get China orders for the
2025-12-09 View on X
CNBC

President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut

President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …

Trump raised the commission/protection fee nvidia has to pay the us government from 15% to 25%. When does the mechanism for paying that fee get established, because after h20 was approved nvidia left some people with the impression that they couldn't book any revenue even if they [image]
2025-12-09 View on X
CNBC

President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut

President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …

Just a gift to nvidia and China, not getting anything in return.
2025-12-09 View on X
CNBC

President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut

President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …

2024-05-08
“The move comes amid US alarm at Huawei's ability to develop advanced chips despite sweeping export controls introduced in 2022” how many fabs has Huawei built and filled with us equipment since those controls were introduced?
2024-05-08 View on X
Financial Times

The US Commerce Department revokes some export licenses that let companies ship chips and other goods to Huawei; sources say the move affects Intel and Qualcomm

Move marks latest effort by Biden administration to target the country's tech sector  —  The Biden administration …

2024-05-01
Grounds for Apple banning TikTok
2024-05-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Screenshots seem to show TikTok circumventing Apple's App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs

TikTok may be routing around the App Store to save money on commissions.  According to new findings, the ByteDance-owned social video app …

2024-04-29
Here's how TikTok lost the war in Washington https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Republican lawmakers also received calls from Doug Stafford, one of the people said. Stafford is an adviser to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), who according to federal records has received more than $24...
2024-04-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill

Wall Street Journal :

2024-03-21
Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point - “Forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform fits into a long and important tradition of American self-government,” @ZephyrTeachout writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-03-21 View on X
The Atlantic

The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform

and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdepende...

Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point - “Forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform fits into a long and important tradition of American self-government,” @ZephyrTeachout writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-03-21 View on X
Axios

After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”

- But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.

FTX's caretaker boss blasts Sam Bankman-Fried's ‘life of delusion’ ahead of sentencing https://www.ft.com/... Ray said he could not return the actual crypto to customers because, by way of example, “when I took over as CEO, there were only 105 bitcoins left on the...
2024-03-21 View on X
Bloomberg

In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over

- Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false  — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm

2024-03-13
“Two weeks ago, executives from TikTok's U.S. operations flew to their company's international headquarters in Singapore with good news. They told bosses that after years of battling over its fate in the U.S., the popular video app wasn't in imminent danger of being banned in its...
2024-03-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As TikTok faces a divestment bill in the US, a look at how lawmakers and the Biden administration quietly planned the legislation and caught TikTok by surprise

Executives of the video-messaging app thought they had fended off attacks.  Behind the scenes, lawmakers and Biden officials were working to force its ban or sale.

Executives of TikTok thought they had fended off attacks. Behind the scenes, lawmakers and Biden officials were working to force its ban or sale https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
2024-03-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As TikTok faces a divestment bill in the US, a look at how lawmakers and the Biden administration quietly planned the legislation and caught TikTok by surprise

Executives of the video-messaging app thought they had fended off attacks.  Behind the scenes, lawmakers and Biden officials were working to force its ban or sale.

2024-03-07
Guess TikTok policy hasn't read the bill? The bill seems clear that if tiktok is separated from its PRC ownership it can still operate in the us
2024-03-07 View on X
Punchbowl News

The White House is backing a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok if the company wants to keep the app in US app stores

namely, TikTok's actions that demonstrate a clear national security risk—conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment. Dr. Neal Dunn / @drnealdunnfl2 : Take or leave it! We...

may have been overly cynical about this latest congressional effort to deal with TikTok. From @PunchbowlNews this AM.."Not only is the Biden administration sending these officials to brief the committee but the White House provided lawmakers with technical assistance when they... [image]
2024-03-07 View on X
Punchbowl News

The White House is backing a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok if the company wants to keep the app in US app stores

namely, TikTok's actions that demonstrate a clear national security risk—conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment. Dr. Neal Dunn / @drnealdunnfl2 : Take or leave it! We...

Short list of firms that bytedance could divest to given cash and tech requirements.  Microsoft, Apple, who else?  Meta and alphabet might have antitrust issues...could bytedance even divest and hand over control of the algorithms, or would PRC officials block a deal?  Maybe that is why TikTok comms so adamant this bill means shutting down TikTok in the us, because they know PRC officials will never agree to a full divestment deal?
2024-03-07 View on X
Punchbowl News

The White House is backing a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok if the company wants to keep the app in US app stores

namely, TikTok's actions that demonstrate a clear national security risk—conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment. Dr. Neal Dunn / @drnealdunnfl2 : Take or leave it! We...

2024-02-06
SMIC and Huawei plan to make new 5nm processor, supporting Beijing's goal for advanced semiconductors https://www.ft.com/... SMIC has put together new semiconductor production lines in Shanghai, according to two people familiar with the move, to mass produce the chips designed...
2024-02-06 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: SMIC plans to use its stock of US and Dutch-made equipment to build 5nm Kirin chips designed by Huawei's HiSilicon for smartphones, despite US curbs

SMIC and Huawei plan to make new 5nm processor, supporting Beijing's goal for advanced semiconductors

2023-12-18
SenseTime Co-Founder Tang Xiao'ou Dies at 55 https://www.caixinglobal.com/ ... Tang was one of China's leading AI specialists. He was ranked among Asia's top five computer scientists in 2020 by Guide2Research
2023-12-18 View on X
Forbes

SenseTime says co-founder Tang Xiao'ou, who was also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness at 55; 0020.HK drops 11%

Two PRC AI leading lights dead this year. Tang and feng yanghe of the pla https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... both young
2023-12-18 View on X
Forbes

SenseTime says co-founder Tang Xiao'ou, who was also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness at 55; 0020.HK drops 11%

2023-12-17
Two PRC AI leading lights dead this year. Tang and feng yanghe of the pla https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... both young
2023-12-17 View on X
Forbes

SenseTime says co-founder Tang Xiao'ou, who was also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness on December 15 at age 55

Tang Xiao'ou, who also taught information engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness, according to SenseTime.