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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/13/muddle-over-semantics-or-pressure-from-china-collapsed-spying-case-remains-baffling
Muddle over semantics or pressure from China? Collapsed spying…

A look at quick commerce in India and China: India's ecosystem is evolving into a retail-media play, while China's is being used as a weapon in platform wars. (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/quick-commerce-india-china

Delivering Different Things Entirely
Quick commerce has become a retail-media play in India and a platform weapon in China.

How Close Can a PWA Get to a Native App? Closer Than You Think
I set out to see how far the web can go toward feeling native. Here’s what I found while building a PWA demo that might just make a full rewrite unnecessary.
📲 https://koolcodez.com/blog/how-close-can-a-…

How Close Can a PWA Get to a Native App? Closer Than You Think - Kool Codez
I set out to see how far the web can go toward feeling native. Here’s what I found while building a PWA demo that might just make a full rewrite unnecessary.

We can't trust Trump with regard to BigTech, we can't trust BigTech itself and the USA is breaking down it's cybersecurity capabilities, plenty of reasons to start walking away from hyperscalers where you can....
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/ne…

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA
Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

Nexperia says China banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing hits back at the Dutch government for taking over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-1…

China Puts Export Controls on Nexperia After Dutch Takeover
China is blocking Nexperia from exporting products from the Asian nation after the Dutch government moved to seize control of the chipmaker.

In case you missed it, my piece yesterday on the 176 CISA employees fired last Friday, which will not go behind the customary archive paywall.
It's critical to note that sources told me more RIFs are in store for the nation's embattled cybersecurity agency.
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The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000 US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (Cynthia B Brumfield/Metacurity)
https://www.metacurity.com/the-white-house-f…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest $10B in industries critical for national security, including "frontier" tech like AI and quantum computing (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/jpmorgan-chase-to-invest-10-…

JPMorgan Chase says it will invest $10 billion into industries critical for national security
The move helps JPMorgan Chase organize its activities around national interests at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October 22, after initially delaying the launch due to regulatory issues with the device's eSIM-only design (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/iphone-air-will-go-on-sal…

Apple announces iPhone Air will go on sale in China later this week - 9to5Mac
Apple is about to launch the iPhone Air in China after about a one-month delay, here are the full details.