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 interdependence) beyond its logi...
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 are trying to remin...
US officials attribute a DDoS attack on the HHS in March 2020 to a state-level actor; docs: the DDoS attack was the largest the US government ever experienced
Bloomberg : X: @niubi X: Bill Bishop / @niubi : A massive cyberattack hit the US government in the early days of Covid. For the first time, officials reveal its scale https://www.bloomberg.com/... vi...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out people really do lose mil...
A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether
The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?” X: @bw , @bw , @joelwebershow , @yueqi_yang , ...
Sources: US official Kurt Campbell confronted Sequoia's Don Vieira over funding Chinese startups that may threaten US security, leading to the three-way split
Wall Street Journal : Twitter: @niubi , @sarthakgh , and @kate_okeeffe Twitter: Bill Bishop / @niubi : Sequoia made a fortune investing in the U.S. and in China. Then the venture firm found it had to...
China says Micron's products caused “significant security risks to our critical information infrastructure supply chain” and warns operators against buying them
less than 2 months after it's announced. The Micron ban applies to major Chinese cos, but impact could be broader. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Bill Bishop / @niubi : Did they even test the micron...
Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation's facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a potential cyberattack
updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/... Matthew Pines / ...
A look at Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in obscure hedge fund Modulo, shortly before FTX collapsed; Modulo's executives had close ties to SBF and FTX
After the collapse of FTX, prosecutors and lawyers have scrutinized its discredited founder's huge investment in Modulo Capital. Tweets: @niubi , @niubi , @jessicakmathews , @macrocephalopod , @smtuff...
Investigation: Alibaba paid Chinese scholars to lobby authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation, hoping to navigate China's clampdown
Alibaba has been paying academics to lobby Chinese authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation … Tweets: @edourdoo , @henrysgao , @marietjeschaake , @angelazhanghk , and @niubi Tw...