• Noch in 2025 (30%, 23 votes)
• 2026 - 2028 (48%, 36 votes)
• Später (9%, 7 votes)
• Gar nicht (12%, 9 votes)

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
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As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ElonMusk #SpaceX #China #Investing #Business #Musk

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China

^ProPublica

LOL my friend Rakesh (laid off from USAID) confirms foreign governments are (attempting) to heavily recruit former US officials.

https://bsky.app/profile/densaer.bsky.social/post/3ljdezlwkyc2r #Politics #USAID #USpol #Russia #China

Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410

Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work!

Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

#Tesla #China #defamation #press

AP investigates Tesla's aggressive legal strategy in China

Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.

^{ELSIE CHEN (AP News)}

Rice causes ~12% of methane emissions or 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers in China and Sweden cross-bred a variety which could reduce CH4 by 70% while doubling yields!

But it won't grow everywhere, and the scientists have just started registering it.

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/rice-paddies-methane-new-variety/

#Food #Climate #Methane #Farming #Rice #Science #China #Sweden

Rice paddies, like cows, spew methane. A new variety makes them a lot less gassy.

Rice plants are a big source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts those emissions by 70 percent.

^{Matt Simon (Grist)}

📺 Watch: A DW Technology video report on Europe's position in the global #AI race.

Both the #US and #China are further advanced and have bigger budgets, but #Europe (with hotspots like Paris or Berlin) may benefit from approaches that focus on putting humans in the loop or exploring open source models:

https://www.dw.com/en/where-is-europe-in-the-global-ai-race/video-71121257

Where is Europe in the global AI race? – DW – 12/24/2024

China and the US are the global leaders in artificial intelligence. Europe is lagging far behind – but can it make up ground in this vital technology of the future?

^dw.com

China sanktioniert zurück:

"China stoppt die Ausfuhr der seltenen Mineralien Gallium und Germanium. Damit stehen die USA mangels Reserven vor einem Problem."

https://www.telepolis.de/features/Chip-Produktion-in-Gefahr-USA-ohne-Plan-B-fuer-seltene-Mineralien-10223316.html

#China #USA #Sanktionen

Chip-Produktion in Gefahr: USA ohne Plan B für seltene Mineralien

China stoppt die Ausfuhr der seltenen Mineralien Gallium und Germanium. Damit stehen die USA mangels Reserven vor einem Problem. Ein Gastbeitrag.

^{Jorge Valverde (heise online)}

"the most dangerous company of the world"
#surveillance #oppression #china #iran #russia
Tiandy Technologies

https://en.tiandy.com/

(source for the quote: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/114207-000-A/russland-china-iran-front-gegen-den-westen/)

Russland, China, Iran: Front gegen den Westen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Russland, China und der Iran – die drei autokratischen Staaten sind Nachfolger zerfallener Imperien und versuchen heute, ihre einstige Macht zurückerlangen.

^ARTE

For those who don't know (which is most of you), this project has been the intense focus of my work, taking up a huge amount of my time, energy, and investigative effort for the past 14 months - while still helping others at Sophos publish their research; running an election campaign where I was a candidate for school board; speaking at Blue Hat, Defcon, Saintcon, Virus Bulletin and other conferences; guest lecturing to classes at CU Boulder; volunteering my time canvassing for political candidates; serving as a docent at the @mediaarchaeologylab and starting up the Elect More Hackers organization.

Whew. It's actually kind of daunting just to read that. I also sometimes sleep and eat.

@SophosXOps has been, at its core, an institution that values radical transparency, and this story (and the earlier research investigations into the Operation Pacific Rim threat actors and incidents) demonstrates Sophos' commitment to truth and journalistic integrity, following a story wherever it leads.

I hope our publication today starts a larger conversation and collaboration within the cybersecurity industry - inside and outside the Cyber Threat Alliance, which Sophos actively supports and where I am proud to represent my employer - to work together to thwart the ambitions of nation-state threat actors such as the perpetrators of Operation Pacific Rim, in order to protect the privacy and safety of everyone, everywhere.

#PacificRim #OperationPacificRim #malware #china #hacking #hacks #infosec #firewalls #intrusiondetection

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/content/pacific-rim

Sophos' Pacific Rim: Defense Against Nation-state Hackers

Discover Sophos' Pacific Rim defense against nation-state / Chinese hackers Volt Typhoon, APT31, and APT41 targeting critical infrastructure.

^Sophos

🇨🇳 🇺🇲 An army of Chinese-controlled social media bots is attempting to influence voters in Alabama, Texas and Tennessee, while denigrating U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, according to new research published on Wednesday by Microsoft.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/chinese-influence-operation-targets-us-down-ballot-races-microsoft-says-2024-10-23/

#china #usa

HEADS UP:

Not only will T**** abandon #Ukraine and throw it to the wolves (#Putin), but he plans to do the same with #Taiwan, telling Bloomberg that he thinks:

"Taiwan needs to pay for their own defense."

Just imagine the consequences of #China taking over Taiwan to the tech industry. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-trump-interview/

Press release update: Sailfish China consortium proceeding to implementation phase.