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The US adds internet censorship tech provider Sandvine to its entity list, banning it from obtaining US tech, for supplying equipment to the government of Egypt (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

US Blacklists Sandvine for Censorship, Web Monitoring in Egypt
The US Commerce Department is adding computer networking company Sandvine Inc. to a blacklist that will effectively ban it from obtaining US technology, according to a government disclosure.

Quite an editorial roster for the September 1991 edition of Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/1991/09-01/

Scientific American Volume 265, Issue 3 | Scientific American
"Communications, Computers and Networks", "Networks", "Networked Computing in the 1990s" and more

In a Scientific First, Mice Engineered With Rat Neurons Show Advanced Sensory Skills
https://scitechdaily.com/in-a-scientific-first-mice-engineered-with-rat-neurons-show-advanced-sensory-skills/

In a Scientific First, Mice Engineered With Rat Neurons Show Advanced Sensory Skills
Researchers at Columbia University have engineered mice with part-rat, part-mouse brains that allow them to smell as rats do. This breakthrough demonstrates the brain's capacity to integrate foreign cells and could advance our understanding of and ability to treat human brain diseases. If mice ev

While ignoring most of the concerns that formed the #OpenAccess movement in the first place, Swissinfo does put a good framing over the issue of AI, misinformation and peer-review in today's article highlighting mismanagement at Frontiers

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

"The U.S. on Monday placed Canada-based Sandvine Inc on a trade restriction list for allegedly helping the Egyptian government target human rights activists and politicians." https://www.reuters.com/business/us-adds-sandvine-chengdu-beizhan-electronics-restricted-trade-list-notice-2024-02-26/
Sandvine makes network-based "policy control" solutions.

Google verschiebt Privacy Sandbox erneut – auf 2025
Google will Drittanbieter-Cookies nun erst 2025 abschaffen. Der Fahrplan für die Privacy Sandbox verschiebt sich damit erneut.
https://www.

Why Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed after Strike by Container Ship | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-engineering/

A Structural Engineer Explains Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed
A large container ship “totally removed” a critical pier from Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

"The U.S. on Monday placed Canada-based Sandvine Inc on a trade restriction list for allegedly helping the Egyptian government target human rights activists and politicians." https://www.reuters.com/business/us-adds-sandvine-chengdu-beizhan-electronics-restricted-trade-list-notice-2024-02-26/
Sandvine makes network-based "policy control" solutions.