Apple’s China Crisis
When your entire company depends on countries getting along
Fruity cargo cult Apple is in hot water because its CEO Tim Cook cut costs by depending on a Chinese supply chain.
Chinese looking at virtual reality
Glorious five year plan
China released its first glorious five-year plan dedicated to virtual reality and says it wants to build more than 25 million devices valued at $48.20 billion by 2026.
Chinese boffins control pigeons' brains
Next, sharks with laser beams
Chinese boffins claim to have built a solar-powered brain control device to steer a pigeon in flight for about two hours, paving the way for surveillance which sh*ts on you from a great height.
US tries to charge Chinese spies for doing their job
Trying to find out what was going on in Huawei investigation
The Justice Department has announced charges against two Chinese intelligence officers, accusing them of attempting to obstruct a US investigation into the telecommunications giant Huawei.
China flogging dodgy chips to Russia
Failure rates up 1,900 per cent
The failure rate of semiconductors shipped from China to Russia has increased by 1,900 percent in recent months, according to Russian national business daily Kommersant.
China-fighting US government investment in chips wipes value from chipmakers
This was not such a good idea after all
While you might think that taking tax payers money away from poor people and giving it to rich chip makers might help build them up, it turns out that giving them too much cash has been a poisoned pill $240 Billion Stock Valuation on the deal.
China upgrades its Great Firewall
Maybe this time we can keep the Mongols out
China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall so it can handle TLS encryption-based tools, according to the Great FireWall (GFW) report.
Former UMC boss funding "civilian warriors" against China
Tsao donates $32.8 million to train 3 million civilian soldiers
Former Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics boss Robert Tsao outlined plans to fund military training for millions of “civilian warriors” in Taiwan to fight against any potential Chinese invasion.
Nvidia told it can't export AI chips to China
We don't want them cleverer than us
US officials have told Nvidia to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China.
US bans 3nm processing technique exports on security grounds
China targeted
The United States is formally banning the export of four technologies tied to semiconductor manufacturing, calling the protection of the items "vital to national security."