2023-09-08
Should a private citizen like Elon Musk be expected to provide a service that could place him and his family in crosshairs of Russian intelligence action-operatives? While Starlink is undoubtedly a critical infrastructural service for Ukrainian forces, the most important question
CNN
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
2023-06-08
Many national security strategists in DC significantly underestimate how pivotal of a financial innovation that Silicon Valley-style VC represented for Chinese internet economy, and how significant the movement of Silicon Valley-style VC to China has been as technology transfer. https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Sequoia's Roelof Botha says splitting the VC stops the trio from rubbing against one another; sources: China arm manager Neil Shen agitated for a separate unit
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2022-09-29
Corruption is inevitable when doing big business (or running a military) in Red China. As I have stated previously on this website, corruption there is unavoidable overhead cost item of doing business. It may, or may not, significantly negatively impact operational capabilities. https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
An investigation details China's crackdown on its $47B chip self-sufficiency “Big Fund”, including 12+ executives investigated or disappeared in three months
Financial Times : Tweets: @simonbchen , @michaelxpettis , and @edwardwhitenz Tweets: Simon Boyi Chen / @simonbchen : Corruption is inevitable when doing big business (or running a...
2022-07-04
Time-series health data accumulated from users of Apple Watch is going to be a veritable gold mine that could be sold to 3rd party clients engaged in epidemiological and Real World Data/Evidence (RWD/E) research. Hopefully Apple will not drop the ball on this data opportunity. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
As Apple ramped up Mac chip investments, improvements to its other chips slowed down; sources say Apple Watch Series 8 might be able to detect a fever in users
When it comes to Apple's chip advancements, the company's iPhone and watch are taking a back seat to the Mac.