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US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…

China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain
Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the m…

A good example of how governments can make the roll-out of public charging infrastructure faster and cheaper: by integrating permission for construction work into an existing digital platform for road works.
https://www.independent.co.uk/cars/electri

Red tape cut to speed up rollout of public EV chargers across England
New Planning and Infrastructure Act removes key barrier for chargepoint operators, alongside £600m funding boost and moves to cut costs for drivers

https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=197518
Crazy times in South Korean cyber.

Police Raid KT Offices in Data Breach Investigation
The police raided KT’s offices in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province as part of an investigation into a recent data breach at the mobile carrier.The anti-corruption and economic ...

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Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copper-rush-pushes-vale-to-ramp-up-mining-near-amazonian-protected-areas/

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
The metal needed in electric cars and solar panels comes with a high cost for Amazonian communities.

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Craig DeForest, Sarah Gibson, Ronnie Killough, Nick Waltham, Matt Beasley, Robin Colaninno, Glenn Laurent, Daniel Seaton, Marcus Hughes, Madhulika Guhathakurta, Nicholeen Viall, Raphael Attie, Dipankar Banerjee, Luke Barnar, Doug Biesecker, Mario Bisi, Volker Bothmer, Antonina Brody, Joan Burkepile, Iver Cairns, Jennifer Campbell, david Cheney, Traci Case, Amir Caspi, Rohit Chhiber, Matthew Clapp, Steven Cranmer, Jackie Davies, Cu…

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission is a NASA Small Explorer to determine the cross-scale processes that unify the solar corona and heliosphere. PUNCH has two science objectives: (1) understand how coronal structures become the ambient solar wind, and (2) understand the dynamic evolution of transient structures, such as coronal mass ejections, in the young solar wind. To address these objectives, PUNCH uses a constellation of four small spacecraft in Sun-synchron…

Just curious: Bolton is being indicted over mishandling of classified material.
OK.
But Cheeto and his klan are furious and mindless advocates of the utterly stupid "unitary executive" theory.
Under that theory Bolton was merely an extension of the biological body of El Cheeto.
If Bolton derived powers, it makes sense that he also derived immunities.
It would seem, therefore, that Bolton can seek cover under the same stupid "immunities" that …

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Every week, Metacurity delivers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we didn't have time for during the daily crush of cyber news.
This week's selection covers
--Massive surveillance in Mexico City leaves crime high,
--Workplace surveillance can harm workers,
--Machine learning privacy attacks are less effective in reality than they are in theory,
--LLMs produce more secure code when trained on flaw-free code,

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/8/25
Massive surveillance in Mexico City leaves crime high, Workplace surveillance can harm workers, Machine learning privacy attacks are less effective in reality than they are in theory, LLMs produce more secure code when trained on flaw-free code, Three major kinds of bots cause web resource headaches