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The U.S.-China Chip Ban, Explained

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Commerce Department issued new rules that clamped down on the export of certain advanced chips—which have military or AI applications—to Chinese customers. has blocked chip sales to individual Chinese customers. In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, the U.S. It has now been over a month since the U.S.

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Twitter Files reveal FBI’s role as “belly button”

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The data included accounts that followed two or more Chinese diplomatic accounts and ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long. In an email, Roth said that the GEC attempted to insert itself into conversations Twitter had with several government agencies, including the FBI and DHS. Credit: Matt Taibbi.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Schneider: And from our earlier conversations, you told me about a class that you were teaching. That is, it doesn’t actually hack into Chinese companies, let’s say, and steal their blueprints. So when Russia was going to invade Ukraine, which it did, people were saying, “Oh, no. If you really want to blow things up, use bombs.

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