#national-security

#national-security

The inquiry, dubbed "Operation Red Sunset," led by the Department of Homeland Security, reportedly examined whether the company's machines could be remotely manipulated for espionage or sabotage of critical US infrastructure. Bitmain denies these capabilities, but investigators have reportedly tested its equipment at ports and dissected chips and code to assess potential threats. The company's hardware has long attracted scrutiny. A 2017 Bitcoin Magazine report suggested Antminer devices contained code allowing remote shutdown, which Bitmain said was a theft-prevention feature later patched.

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PNT is the bedrock for virtually all modern-day activities from finance to transport that depend on access to reliable and accurate information. Examples cited include satellite navigation services that help people get from A to B, but also timing signals - without which mobile phones and even stock markets could not function properly. Indeed, the UK government cited a study showing that just a 24-hour outage of satellite navigation services could cost the UK economy £1.4bn.

To be clear, YMTC is not an ordinary China-based company. YMTC reached the Entity List after first being placed on the Unverified List in October 2022 when BIS was unable to complete end-use checks to verify that exported technology was being used as declared. Under President Biden, YMTC was added to the Entity List based on findings that the company creates a major risk of diversion (sharing key technology) with other parties on the entities list, including Huawei and Hangzhou Hikvision.

"Government intervention in the economy in the name of national security is most clearly warranted in cases of market failure," a new report from a bipartisan task force organized by the Council on Foreign Relations says. "Today, the market failures that loom largest for U.S. national security are shortfalls of private capital in strategically important areas and over-concentration of critical supply chains in unfriendly countries," the report adds.

Australia passed legislation in 2023 to mothball the planned embassy building after officials deemed it to pose a security threat. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at the time that his government decided to revoke the lease over the specific risk posed by the site, located about 300 metres (328 yards) from Parliament House. Russia, which blasted the move as Russophobic hysteria, challenged the legislation in court, arguing that it was not valid under the Australian Constitution.

I do not think we truly appreciate how disruptive, how devastating, this could be "That's one phone network not working for less than one day," he said. "Imagine the implications if a nation state took down all the networks? Or turned off the power during a heatwave? Or polluted our drinking water? Or crippled our financial system?"

US President Donald Trump has indicated that Nvidia's most advanced artificial intelligence chips will be available exclusively to US companies. China and other countries will be excluded from access to this technology. During a recorded interview on CBS's 60 Minutes program and in conversations with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump emphasized that only US customers will be allowed to use Nvidia's latest Blackwell chips. According to him, these powerful semiconductors must remain in US hands to protect the country's technological lead.

According to the presidential spokesperson, Tinubu fired three top security officials on Friday Christopher Musa, chief of defence staff; Emmanuel Ogalla, chief of naval staff, and Hassan Abubakar, chief of air staff. Tinubu appointed Olufemi Oluyede, the former chief of army staff, as the new chief of defence staff. Shaibu, I Abbas and SK Aneke were appointed as the chiefs of army, air force, and naval staff.

These federal employees play a critical oversight role in ensuring that the work required to maintain nuclear security is carried out in accordance with long-standing policy and the law

There are few things that MPs take more seriously than themselves. Their desire to put themselves front and centre of world events. Their need to imagine that everything they do makes a difference. No greater self-love hath any person than this. If they were to have a therapist, I am sure they would be having a field day. The triumph of ego over ever-diminishing quantities of self-worth.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Dom! At a time of heightened worries about national security, who better than Dominic Cummings to shine a light on the murky world of spying? The man who turned a drive to Barnard Castle into an advert for SpecSavers. The man who gave us Brexit. Which one of us didn't vote for a 4% hit to GDP? The man who gave us Boris Johnson.

The indictment charges Bolton with eighteen federal crimes: eight related to transmitting sensitive national defense information and ten more for improperly retaining the same. The information at issue contained deadly serious government secrets. Bolton allegedly disclosed to outsiders information about "future attack" plans by foreign adversary groups; details of impending missile launches by foreign adversaries; information about sensitive intelligence sources; and assessments about leaders of foreign countries.

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would show streets, buildings, and alleyways in far greater detail than currently available on these platforms. However, several regulatory and security hurdles remain unresolved. Earlier this week, South Korea's National Assembly Defense Committee held a parliamentary audit of Google Korea.

Well, you're in one now, Trump responded. He continued: Look, we have 100% tariff if we didn't have tariffs, we would be exposed as being a nothing. We would have no defense. You know they've used tariffs on us. But we've never had anybody sitting in [the president's] chair who felt the need to do it. President Trump added that tariffs are very important for national security.

The new extension will take Denmark's border controls into a second decade, given they were first introduced at the beginning of 2016. The current extension remains necessary due to the risk from cross border crime, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said in the statement. Denmark remains in a serious security situation. This tells me that the most responsible thing to do is still to consider who we allow to cross our borders, so that we can protect the Danish people, Hummelgaard said.

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