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China's Cyberspace Administration requires firms to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a detailed map of the country's AI ecosystem (Yi-Ling Liu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-ai-boom-algorithm-registry/

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

»Blockt Microsoft Mails von europäischen Cloud Providern in outlook.com/hotmail.com?«
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Wenn dies dann die Wahrheit ist, dann ist das auch nicht überraschend das erste mal wie die USA Druck über das Web ausübt. Auch oder gerade deswegen sollte es viele eigene unabhängige E-Mail Services genutzt werden.
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Blockt Microsoft Mails von europäischen Cloud Providern in outlook.com/hotmail.com? | Borns IT- und Windows-Blog
Kurze Frage in die Runde, ob jemand aus dem Leserkreis das bestätigen kann. Mir liegt eine Information vor, dass Microsofts E-Mail-Dienste outlook.com (.de) und hotmail.com E-Mails seit dem 12.

China überholt USA als Deutschlands Top-Handelspartner
China holt sich den Spitzenplatz im Handel mit Deutschland zurück. Doch am Absatzmarkt USA kommen Exporteure nicht vorbei – trotz der neuen Zölle.
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Security researchers at Jamf found that Predator spyware can prevent iOS video and microphone recording indicators from appearing. 
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/19/iphone-camera-microphone-dot-can-be-suppressed-if-yo…

Predator spyware exploits SpringBoard to block iOS camera & microphone lights
Apple's camera and microphone indicators are supposed to tell iPhone users when the microphone or camera are on, but after a device is fully compromised with kernel-level access by another hack, Predator spyware can prevent those from appearing.

Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

One Year of Trump:
The Time to Act Is Now,
While We Still Can.
We can’t count on change being brought about by elections when we can’t count on elections.
We can’t count on the freedoms & resources we enjoy today to still be available to us tomorrow
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Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
The United States is broken, but not in every way.

Supreme Court rules that Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/supreme-court-tariffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p53#a260220p53

Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…

Chinese surveillance based on US tech is used to silence Tibetans in Nepal
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya. This technology is now a key part of China’s push for global influence, as it provides cash-strapped governments cost-effective, if invasive, forms of policing — turning algorithms and data into a force multiplier for control. The irony at the heart of this digital authoritarianism i…

Netflix revises its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75 per share, with the same $82.7B enterprise value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/20/media/netflix-all-cash-offer-warner-bros-discovery

Netflix revises its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, it’s all cash
In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO, rather than a mix of cash and stock.