This kind of government-encouraged or mandated joint venture is barely different from what China does. To be quite honest, for stuff like silicon manufacturing, it's probably a good idea.
Readit NewsENOTTY commented on Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture reuters.com/technology/in... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
While I think this case is silly (bad), First Amendment protections are only available for U.S. citizens and to a lesser extent to permanent residents (we've seen that permanent residents can have their permanent residency canceled). EDIT: To be clear foreigners can't be imprisoned in the U.S. for their speech any more than a citizen, but unlike a citizen they can be removed from the U.S. because of their speech.
Also, this is an action by CBP, not by the POTUS. I seriously doubt there was any order by POTUS regarding the speech of foreigners abroad. Most likely this is just a zealous CBP agent making this decision. I've been given the third degree by immigration officers in the U.S. and Canada, and it always felt very random.
Why would you absolve POTUS when it's clear his administration's policies created the environment that enables CBP officers to take this liberty?
Additionally, the CBP spokesperson[1] defended the action, and despite reporters asking questions, the administration has done nothing to walk back the action or apologize. All signs point to the administration being very okay with stuff like this happening.
[1]: This might not be widely known, but one of the first actions that happens on inauguration day is the replacement of US government agency spokespersons with new political appointees. One of the powers of the executive branch is the bully pulpit and smart administrations seek to use it from day one.
ENOTTY commented on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/mmsc
Can anyone recommend a journalist who is reporting the facts of what’s happening on this subject?
From what I can tell, it’s widely been reported that
- Elon Musk was allowed into the Department of Education
- “Big Balls” accessed Treasury computers
- etc…
But I have not been able to find any first person testimony that confirms those statements.
From what I can tell Tom Krause is actually the one who was given access by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. And Tom Krause is an employee of the Treasury and has security clearance.
I see a lot of people claiming there was some sort of illegal access, but I would love to read a source that explains exactly who accessed exactly what system improperly.
Can anyone point me at that source?
I don't think you're going to find any on-he-record first person testimony. It's going to be unnamed government officials, or front-line government employees who are talking to reporters and providing information without direct attribution
ENOTTY commented on Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports github.com/drk1wi/portspo... · Posted by u/nateb2022
To speed up a comprehensive port probe with service discovery, one could use a few different systems on different IPs and divide the work.
ENOTTY commented on Where have all the sacked tech workers gone? economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Still on severance and chilling out maybe?
ENOTTY commented on How to make sense of intelligence leaks economist.com/the-economi... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
I read a book that touched on this called "super forecasters". Apparently there was a push to reduce ambiguity in briefings. I can't remember if it was Obama or a different president (may have been as far back as Carter), but they were told something by an intelligence advisor and they asked for what is basically a confidence interval. The advisor went back and found out what they were conveying as a sure thing was basically like 50:50 chance. At some point they then decided to come up with a system to make this clearer.
Per the article:
> In 1964 Sherman Kent, a cia analyst, coined the phrase “words of estimative probability”.
So that must have been even before Carter
ENOTTY commented on How to make sense of intelligence leaks economist.com/the-economi... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
This is a very useful article if you want to understand the technical language used by the UK and US intelligence communities, which is often parroted by the media reporting on topics using sources that leak intelligence from those communities. This language has been standardized within their respective communities so that all parties involved (from the President to the lowliest analyst) should be on the same page with respect to the intelligence.
According to the article there are two measures:
- a probabilistic measurement and associated language, which speaks to the assessed likelihood of an event occurring
- a confidence measurement and associated language, which speaks to the assessed quality of the source(s) of the intelligence
ENOTTY commented on China has a lead over the US in 37 out of 44 critical technologies businessinsider.com/china... · Posted by u/PJones2000
This list seems weird. Advanced aircraft engines? The latest homegrown Chinese airliner (Comac C919) uses western LEAP engines.
> Laurie Smyla, a 73-year-old retiree from Sloatsburg, New York [...] Smyla has a degree in environmental science and even served as coordinator for the local recycling program in the late 1980s, as she explains when reached by phone. She was able to quickly identify the envelope as polyethylene, the most common type of plastic.
I gotta wonder, how many people did the reporters have to contact before finding the perfect subject to put a human angle on this part of the story. Kudos to them for doing the legwork
The phone contact list becoming the root of trust for defining personal trust relationships is rather unwelcome. Then software taking that data and wordlessly interpreting it as a binary trust/do-not-trust decision is also unwelcome.
If I am networking at a conference, I frequently exchange contact info by entering info into each others' contact app or sending each other a text. I'm sure I'm not the only one to do this.
It's one thing to tell two users that both parties are using Signal and in each other's contact list (contact discovery). It's another thing to encourage users to broadcast messages to all of them (via Stories, and the default share setting is all contacts)
In summary, while I'm neutral on the Stories feature, I think the implementation/rollout has been clumsy.