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Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules

"How Chinese is your car?" asks the Wall Street Journal. "Automakers are racing to work it out."


Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology. Now, the car industry is scrambling to root out that tech ahead of a looming deadline, a test case for America's ability to decouple from Chinese supply chains. New U.S. rules will soon ban Chinese software in vehicle systems that connect to the cloud, part of an effort to prevent cameras, microphones and GPS tracking in cars from being exploited by foreign adversaries.
The move is "one of the most consequential and complex auto regulations in decades," according to Hilary Cain, head of policy at trade group the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. "It requires a deep examination of supply chains and aggressive compliance timelines."

Carmakers will need to attest to the U.S. government that, as of March 17, core elements of their products don't contain code that was written in China or by a Chinese company. The rule also covers software for advanced autonomous driving and will be extended to connectivity hardware starting in 2029. Connected cars made by Chinese or China-controlled companies are also banned, wherever their software comes from...

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which introduced the connected-vehicle rule, is also allowing the use of Chinese code that is transferred to a non-Chinese entity before March 17. That carve-out has sparked a rush of corporate restructuring, according to Matt Wyckhouse, chief executive of cybersecurity firm Finite State. Global suppliers are relocating China-based software teams, while Chinese companies are seeking new owners for operations in the West.


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Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes into Texas Apartment Building

"You can hear the hum of the drone," says a local newscaster, "but then the propellors come into contact with the building, chunks of the drone later seen falling down. The next video shows the drone on the ground, surrounded by smoke...
"Amazon tells us there was minimal damage to the apartment building, adding they are working with the appropriate people to handle any repairs." But there were people standing outside, notes the woman who filmed the crash, and the falling drone "could've hit them, and they would've hurt."

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Cesarina Johnson, who captured the collision from her window, told USA TODAY that the collision seemed to happen "almost immediately" after she began to record the drone in action... "The propellers on the thing were still moving, and you could smell it was starting to burn," Johnson told Fox 4 News. "And you see a few sparks in one of my videos. Luckily, nothing really caught on fire where it got, it escalated really crazy." According to the outlet, firefighters were called out of an abundance of caution, but the "drone never caught fire...."

Amazon employees can be seen surveying the scene in the clip. Johnson told the outlet that firefighters and Amazon workers worked together to clean up before the drone was loaded into a truck.

Another local news report points out Amazon only began drone delivery in the area late last year.

The San Antonio Express News points out that America's Federal Aviation Administration "opened an investigation into Amazon's drone delivery program in November after one of its drone struck an Internet cable line in Waco."

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Dissident Jimmy Lai in Hongkong moet 20 jaar de cel in

Jimmy Lai steunde massale protesten in Hongkong in 2019 en 2020 tegen het gezag van Beijing. De columns die hij schreef in zijn prodemocratische krant Apple Daily zijn hem duur komen te staan.

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Cuba binnen 24 uur zonder brandstof voor vliegtuigen

HAVANA (ANP) - De Cubaanse regering heeft zondag buitenlandse luchtvaartmaatschappijen gewaarschuwd dat het land binnen 24 uur zonder brandstof voor vliegtuigen zit. Dat meldt het Spaanse persbureau EFE.

De regering in Havana wijt het tekort aan "de Amerikaanse agressie" tegen de export van olie naar Cuba. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft landen die olie naar Cuba exporteren gedreigd met importheffingen. Hij beschouwt het land als een bedreiging voor de Amerikaanse veiligheid.

Luchtvaartmaatschappijen hebben nog niet aangegeven wat ze zullen doen na de bekendmaking van de Cubaanse regering. Een anonieme functionaris van een Europese luchtvaartmaatschappij zei tegen AFP dat de maatregel een maand zal duren.

Cuba ontving olie uit Venezuela totdat de Verenigde Staten dit land op 3 januari aanvielen en president Nicolás Maduro en zijn vrouw oppakten.

De Cubaanse regering kondigde eerder al een pakket noodmaatregelen aan op het gebied van onderwijs, werk en transport om de energiecrisis in het land het hoofd te bieden. De olietekorten veroorzaken in Cuba hogere prijzen voor voedsel en transport, en brandstoftekorten en urenlange stroomstoringen.


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Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by the Australian, the Saturday Paper and the Hobart Mercury

Jon Kudelka, the Australian political cartoonist, has died at the age of 53.

His wife, Margaret Kudelka, announced the news in a statement on Monday: “We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends.”

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Super Bowl: Bad Bunny, the ads and everything but the football – live

The biggest US sports night of the year is also set to be a major cultural event with Bad Bunny following up his Grammys triumph and a set of A-list ads

We’re drifting dangerously close to the football here, but the teams are taking the field with the now-traditional blessing of some celebrity fans. First up, longtime Seattle Seahawks diehard Chris Pratt, who introduces his hometown team with his young son.

As a procession of Super Bowl MVPs walk on to the pitch Green Day take to the stage, opening with Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) and segueing into Holiday. As the crowd on the pitch pump devil-horns foam fingers , the trio look like they’re having a great time, and Billie Joe Armstrong still sounds incredible. After a bit of Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the short set climaxes with American Idiot accompanied by a bizarre lineup of football legends like of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Joe Montana onto the stage. A fun, punchy opener.

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Jimmy Lai sentencing: Hong Kong court to rule on pro-democracy media mogul after conviction – live updates

Observers fear that conviction under national security law could come under the most severe penalty band of 10 years to life imprisonment. Follow the latest developments, live

Here are some images of Jimmy Lai at pro-democracy protests across Hong Kong over the years:

Progressing from child labourer to billionaire, Jimmy Lai used his power and wealth to promote democracy, which ultimately pitted him against authorities in Beijing.

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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Russian energy sites are legitimate targets

Ukrainian president says the power infrastructure generates money for Moscow so is akin to a military target. What we know on day 1,447

Russian energy infrastructure is a legitimate target for Ukrainian strikes because the energy sector is a source of funds for the production of weapons, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “We do not have to choose – whether we strike a military target or energy … it’s the same thing,” the Ukrainian president said on X on Sunday. “We either build weapons and strike their weapons. Or we strike the source where their money is generated and multiplied. And that source is their energy sector … All of this is a legitimate target for us.” Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy grid in a campaign of attacks that has been called Moscow’s weaponisation of winter.

Authorities in Dubai have arrested and handed over to Russia a man suspected of shooting and wounding a senior officer in Russia’s intelligence services, according to Moscow’s security service. Rory Carroll and Pjotr Sauer report that Sunday’s announcement came two days after a gunman shot Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev on the stairwell of his Moscow apartment, leaving him in a critical condition. The federal security service (FSB) said a Russian citizen was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting. Television images showed masked FSB officers escorting a blindfolded man from a jet in Russia in the dark. The FSB said it had also identified two “accomplices”, one of whom was detained in Moscow and another who “left for Ukraine”.

Zelenskyy said the US had given Ukraine and Russia yet another deadline to reach a peace settlement and was now proposing the war should end by June, reports Donna Ferguson. The Ukrainian president also hinted that the new deadline could be linked to Trump’s US midterm elections campaign. Zelenskyy told reporters that both Ukraine and Russia had been invited to further talks this week.

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said on Sunday. The attack on the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region caused a fire in a nine-story apartment block, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. Russia also struck energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Poltava region overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz said.

Kyiv’s foreign minister said the Ukrainian and Russian leaders needed to meet in person to hash out the hardest remaining issues in peace talks, and that only the US president had the power to bring about an agreement. “Only Trump can stop the war,” Andrii Sybiha told Reuters. From the 20-point peace plan that has formed the basis of recent trilateral negotiations, only “a few” items remained outstanding, Sybiha said. “The most sensitive and most difficult, to be dealt with at the leaders’ level.”

Zelenskyy said he was imposing sanctions on some foreign manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles which it uses against Ukraine. “Producing this weaponry would be impossible without critical foreign components, which the Russians continue to obtain by circumventing sanctions,” he said on X.

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Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies

Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19.…