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Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering

2 months 3 weeks ago
Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players

Feature  It's not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a long-term proposition. Those that pay off can deliver big, but success is far from guaranteed.…

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China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour

2 months 3 weeks ago
A complete shutdown of encrypted web traffic isolated China from the global internet for 74 minutes Wednesday morning, blocking citizens from accessing foreign websites and disrupting international business operations that depend on secure connections to offshore servers. The Great Firewall began injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to terminate all connections on port 443 at 00:34 Beijing time on August 20, according to activist group Great Firewall Report. The standard HTTPS port carries most modern web traffic, meaning Chinese users lost access to virtually all foreign-hosted websites while companies including Apple and Tesla couldn't connect to servers powering their basic services. The blocking device didn't match known Great Firewall hardware fingerprints, suggesting Beijing either deployed new censorship equipment or experienced a configuration error. Pakistan's internet traffic dropped significantly hours before China's incident, potentially connected through shared firewall technology.

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A Data Architecture For The Age Of AI

2 months 3 weeks ago

SPONSORED POST:  As organizations race to harness the potential of AI, many are discovering that their existing data architectures are struggling to keep up. …

A Data Architecture For The Age Of AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Timothy Prickett Morgan