Tag: geopolitical
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Hacker News: Explainer: What’s R1 and Everything Else?
Source URL: https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/01/25/r1 Source: Hacker News Title: Explainer: What’s R1 and Everything Else? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an informative overview of recent developments in AI, particularly focusing on Reasoning Models and their significance in the ongoing evolution of AI technologies. It discusses the releases of models such…
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Wired: How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-model-ai/ Source: Wired Title: How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI Feedly Summary: When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene. AI Summary and…
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Hacker News: Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/how-cryptocurrency-turns-to-cash-in-russian-banks/ Source: Hacker News Title: Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the emergence of a Canadian financial firm as a payment processor for Russian cryptocurrency exchanges, implicating it in facilitating cybercrime services targeted at Russian-speaking customers. This raises significant concerns…
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The Register: Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/china_taiwan_wargames/ Source: The Register Title: Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy Feedly Summary: Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It’s 2030 and China’s furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After…
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The Register: CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump’s Homeland Sec pick: And that’s none of your concern
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/18/cisa_election_security_isnt_political/ Source: The Register Title: CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump’s Homeland Sec pick: And that’s none of your concern Feedly Summary: Cyber agency too ‘far off mission,’ says incoming boss Kristi Noem America’s lead cybersecurity agency on Friday made one final scream into the impending truth void…
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Wired: The FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel Isn’t Leaving Without a Fight
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-fccs-jessica-rosenworcel-isnt-leaving-without-a-fight/ Source: Wired Title: The FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel Isn’t Leaving Without a Fight Feedly Summary: As the US faces “the worst telecommunications hack in our nation’s history,” by China’s Salt Typhoon hackers, the outgoing FCC chair is determined to bolster network security if it’s the last thing she does. AI Summary and Description:…
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The Register: US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/entity_list_chinese_expansion/ Source: The Register Title: US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Feedly Summary: Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Chinese chip designer Sophgo, a suspected supplier of AI silicon to Huawei, has been added to the…
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The Register: Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/nvidia_israel_blackwell/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer Feedly Summary: System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems Nvidia is constructing a 30-megawatt research-and-development supercomputer stuffed with its latest-generation Blackwell GPUs in northern Israel at an estimated cost of half a billion dollars.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…