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Justice Department Says It Dismantled Russia’s ‘Most Sophisticated’ Malware Network (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 05/10/2023 - 06:02‘Rip and Replace’: The Tech Cold War Is Upending Wireless Carriers
As the US and China battle for geopolitical and technological primacy, the fallout has reached small wireless carriers in dozens of states. They are on the receiving end of the Biden administration’s sweeping policies to suppress China’s rise. What the wireless carriers must do, under a program known as “rip and replace,” has become the starkest physical manifestation of the tech Cold War between the two superpowers.
Newton N. Minow, FCC Chairman Deemed TV a ‘Vast Wasteland’
Newton N. Minow, who as President John F. Kennedy’s new Federal Communications Commission chairman in 1961 sent shock waves through an industry and touched a nerve in a nation addicted to banality and mayhem by calling American television “a vast wasteland,” died on May 6 at his home in Chicago. He was 97. On May 9, 1961, almost four months after President Kennedy called upon Americans to renew their commitment to freedom around the globe, Mr.