A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat
China Warns Move Could ‘Backfire’ DigiTimes : China's battery and energy storage firms lead, fueled by AI-driven power demand surge Simon Sharwood / The Register : US punishes China's ‘dominance’ of l...
Sources: the UK Home Office issued an order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only UK users
Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption
Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration
www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... @mnindivisible : From the same folks who brought you the well thought out and well executed reductions in force. — This is going to be a clusterf**k Michael M...
Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850
This is what the company pays for components inside its bestselling phone, and how Trump's China tariffs could raise the bill.
Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable. It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving a false sense of se...
Twitch plans to implement a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads from April 19, automatically deleting content from streamers who exceed the limit
Streamers who have exceeded this limit will have their content automatically deleted until it meets the threshold.
The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an investigation into a 2019 breach, fining Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text
#privacy #Facebook #HaveIBeenPwned #DataBreach #Instagram — https://9to5mac.com/... X: Brian O'Donovan / @brianod_news : Breaking: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has b...
Japan's government finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems on June 28, 2024, after scrapping 1,034 regulations governing their use
Japanese government says it has finally eradicated ancient hardware David Meyer / Fortune : OpenAI's reported decision to let Apple sit in on its board meetings is very revealing J.D. Capelouto / Sema...
Despite the US adding Hangzhou-based encryption chip maker Hualan to its Entity List in 2021, NASA, NATO, the DEA, and more still use chips from its subsidiary
The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China's military. Yet US agencies still use … Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @wired Mastodon: Andy Greenbe...
Google updates its inactivity policy: accounts inactive for at least two years will be deleted, except for those with YouTube videos, starting in December 2023
In 2020, Google said it would remove content stored in an inactive account (but not the account itself) to preserve storage space.