Biden is as Xenophobic as he Claimed Trump was
Regulators have begun legal proceedings that could strip three Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies of their right to operate in the United States, officials said Wednesday, citing national security concerns.
The three firms -- China Unicom America, Pacific Networks, and ComNet -- had failed to adequately prove their Americas operations were not subject to "undue influence" from Beijing, the Federal Communications Commission said.
Commission officials voted 4-0 at a hearing to begin an investigation, which could see the firms stripped of their right to operate within the US.
"The threat to our networks from entities aligned with Communist China is one that we must address head on, and I am pleased that the FCC continues to show the strength and resolve necessary to meet this menace," FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said in a statement.
"When it comes to Communist China, we have set a high bar for action over the last few years," he added.
The move spells more bad news for the embattled firms' US operations, following a January decision by the New York Stock Exchange to bar them from trading.
In a statement following Wednesday's ruling, China Unicom -- one of the world's largest carriers -- insisted that it has never acted illegally and expected a "thorough, fair and fact-based review of the company’s conduct by the FCC," Bloomberg reported.
Wednesday's decision comes amid a broader drive by US regulators to crackdown on Chinese telecoms groups they see as a threat to national security.
Last week, regulators listed tech giant Huawei to a roster of communications companies thought to pose "an unacceptable risk", signalling that hopes for are set with the United States under President Joe Biden, after the firm was battered by sanctions imposed by Donald Trump's administration, were unfounded.
NIST Graded Our Post-Quantum Cryptography. Zero Failures.
NIST's Algorithm Validation Test System generated test vectors nobody had seen, we answered them over the ACVP protocol, and NIST graded the result: 2,130 cases across ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA in every parameter set offered, zero failures, demo certificate A11025. This is what that proves, where we deliberately drew the claim narrower than NIST's own matrix, and why the FIPS 140-2 sunset on 21 September makes the distinction between being graded and grading yourself worth understanding.
The Problem Is Not the Problem
People treat the Jack Sparrow line as a joke. The attribution is a joke. The sentence is not. Forty years in markets says the same thing Epictetus said in 125 CE and Robert Merton named in 1948: the event is finite, and the story you appoint to govern it is not. This essay walks the quote back to its actual sources, draws the loop that turns a feeling into an order, and sets out the four places a rule written in advance cuts the loop. Faith is not a hedge. It is a stance.
What KXCO Is, and Why the Hard Problem Was Never Intelligence
The prevailing enthusiasm assumes the hard problem is intelligence. It is not. It is that banks, hospitals, courts and governments are being asked to let software act on their behalf with no way to establish who decided, on what basis, or whether the record will still read in a decade. KXCO founder Shayne Heffernan sets out the architecture that answers those questions, drawn as a graph, and argues that properly constructed AI is an amplifier of human judgement rather than a replacement for it.
AI Intelligence Scales. Accountability Does Not. Why KXCO Is Built for It.
Capability is becoming abundant and everything abundant gets cheap. What does not get cheap is the person who has to sign, and they can only carry what they can see. Four conditions follow from that, and four independent authorities reached the first of them last month without knowing it.
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