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This is your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates podcast.
Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and digital showdowns. Picture this: it's been a pulse-pounding week in the US-China CyberPulse arena, with defenses ramping up like a zero-day patch frenzy. Just days ago, on February 13th, the US Department of Defense dropped a bombshell, adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its Chinese Military Companies List—only to yank it back at the Pentagon's whisper. That glitch screamed internal drama, but it spotlighted the BIOSECURE Act from the 2026 NDAA, now locking out blacklisted Chinese biotech giants like BGI Group subsidiaries and WuXi AppTec from federal contracts. No more sneaky biotech backdoors.
Meanwhile, Congress is flexing hard. The House passed Congressman Mike Lawler's Remote Access Security Act, plugging that pesky Export Control Reform Act loophole—Chinese firms like ByteDance can't just cloud-rent Nvidia H200 or AMD MI325X chips anymore without jumping through fiery hoops. US Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security is case-by-case reviewing exports, slapping 25% tariffs, and demanding proof these bad boys won't juice China's AI edge or dodge security checks. China fired back mid-January with a sweeping ban on US and Israeli cyber tools from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point, citing data leaks—classic tit-for-tat fracturing our global threat intel sharing. As the Internet Governance Project warns, this geopolitical splintering blinds everyone to borderless botnets and malware.
Private sector's not sleeping. Fortinet Federal's CTO Felipe Fernandez nailed it at the Potomac Officers Club chatter: 2026 federal cyber priorities scream resilience against AI supply chain bombs, with agencies hardening data pipelines and models per the federal AI Action Plan. Solar world's shifting too—congressmembers like Pete Hegseth are pushing "Don't Buy Chinese" for government projects after unexplained comms devices popped up in Chinese inverters, per Energy Department labs and ex-NSA boss Mike Rogers. No proven malice yet, but rapid shutdown fears have nuked FEOC panels from BABA-compliant builds.
Internationally, it's chess: US Peace Corps launched Tech Corps to export AI stacks and cyber defenses abroad, countering China's whole-of-nation AI blitz—think DeepSeek's H200 hauls under NDRC conditions, or their nuclear-powered data centers closing the compute gap. States are reeling from CISA's shutdown squeeze, canceling meets and furloughing key teams, while Jamestown Foundation flags Chinese smart TVs as surveillance spies.
New tech? Behavioral intelligence is the AI-vs-AI frontline, per Cybersecurity Dive, spotting anomalies before they pwn. And FDD reports a federal grand jury indicting three Silicon Valley folks in China cyber ops—names pending, but it's heating up.
Whew, listeners, from blacklists to bans, we're fortifying the digital Maginot Line, but China's not blinking. Stay vigilant—patch up, segment out, and zero-trust everything.
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more CyberPulse drops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and digital showdowns. Picture this: it's been a pulse-pounding week in the US-China CyberPulse arena, with defenses ramping up like a zero-day patch frenzy. Just days ago, on February 13th, the US Department of Defense dropped a bombshell, adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its Chinese Military Companies List—only to yank it back at the Pentagon's whisper. That glitch screamed internal drama, but it spotlighted the BIOSECURE Act from the 2026 NDAA, now locking out blacklisted Chinese biotech giants like BGI Group subsidiaries and WuXi AppTec from federal contracts. No more sneaky biotech backdoors.
Meanwhile, Congress is flexing hard. The House passed Congressman Mike Lawler's Remote Access Security Act, plugging that pesky Export Control Reform Act loophole—Chinese firms like ByteDance can't just cloud-rent Nvidia H200 or AMD MI325X chips anymore without jumping through fiery hoops. US Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security is case-by-case reviewing exports, slapping 25% tariffs, and demanding proof these bad boys won't juice China's AI edge or dodge security checks. China fired back mid-January with a sweeping ban on US and Israeli cyber tools from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point, citing data leaks—classic tit-for-tat fracturing our global threat intel sharing. As the Internet Governance Project warns, this geopolitical splintering blinds everyone to borderless botnets and malware.
Private sector's not sleeping. Fortinet Federal's CTO Felipe Fernandez nailed it at the Potomac Officers Club chatter: 2026 federal cyber priorities scream resilience against AI supply chain bombs, with agencies hardening data pipelines and models per the federal AI Action Plan. Solar world's shifting too—congressmembers like Pete Hegseth are pushing "Don't Buy Chinese" for government projects after unexplained comms devices popped up in Chinese inverters, per Energy Department labs and ex-NSA boss Mike Rogers. No proven malice yet, but rapid shutdown fears have nuked FEOC panels from BABA-compliant builds.
Internationally, it's chess: US Peace Corps launched Tech Corps to export AI stacks and cyber defenses abroad, countering China's whole-of-nation AI blitz—think DeepSeek's H200 hauls under NDRC conditions, or their nuclear-powered data centers closing the compute gap. States are reeling from CISA's shutdown squeeze, canceling meets and furloughing key teams, while Jamestown Foundation flags Chinese smart TVs as surveillance spies.
New tech? Behavioral intelligence is the AI-vs-AI frontline, per Cybersecurity Dive, spotting anomalies before they pwn. And FDD reports a federal grand jury indicting three Silicon Valley folks in China cyber ops—names pending, but it's heating up.
Whew, listeners, from blacklists to bans, we're fortifying the digital Maginot Line, but China's not blinking. Stay vigilant—patch up, segment out, and zero-trust everything.
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more CyberPulse drops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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By Inception Point AiThis is your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates podcast.
Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and digital showdowns. Picture this: it's been a pulse-pounding week in the US-China CyberPulse arena, with defenses ramping up like a zero-day patch frenzy. Just days ago, on February 13th, the US Department of Defense dropped a bombshell, adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its Chinese Military Companies List—only to yank it back at the Pentagon's whisper. That glitch screamed internal drama, but it spotlighted the BIOSECURE Act from the 2026 NDAA, now locking out blacklisted Chinese biotech giants like BGI Group subsidiaries and WuXi AppTec from federal contracts. No more sneaky biotech backdoors.
Meanwhile, Congress is flexing hard. The House passed Congressman Mike Lawler's Remote Access Security Act, plugging that pesky Export Control Reform Act loophole—Chinese firms like ByteDance can't just cloud-rent Nvidia H200 or AMD MI325X chips anymore without jumping through fiery hoops. US Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security is case-by-case reviewing exports, slapping 25% tariffs, and demanding proof these bad boys won't juice China's AI edge or dodge security checks. China fired back mid-January with a sweeping ban on US and Israeli cyber tools from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point, citing data leaks—classic tit-for-tat fracturing our global threat intel sharing. As the Internet Governance Project warns, this geopolitical splintering blinds everyone to borderless botnets and malware.
Private sector's not sleeping. Fortinet Federal's CTO Felipe Fernandez nailed it at the Potomac Officers Club chatter: 2026 federal cyber priorities scream resilience against AI supply chain bombs, with agencies hardening data pipelines and models per the federal AI Action Plan. Solar world's shifting too—congressmembers like Pete Hegseth are pushing "Don't Buy Chinese" for government projects after unexplained comms devices popped up in Chinese inverters, per Energy Department labs and ex-NSA boss Mike Rogers. No proven malice yet, but rapid shutdown fears have nuked FEOC panels from BABA-compliant builds.
Internationally, it's chess: US Peace Corps launched Tech Corps to export AI stacks and cyber defenses abroad, countering China's whole-of-nation AI blitz—think DeepSeek's H200 hauls under NDRC conditions, or their nuclear-powered data centers closing the compute gap. States are reeling from CISA's shutdown squeeze, canceling meets and furloughing key teams, while Jamestown Foundation flags Chinese smart TVs as surveillance spies.
New tech? Behavioral intelligence is the AI-vs-AI frontline, per Cybersecurity Dive, spotting anomalies before they pwn. And FDD reports a federal grand jury indicting three Silicon Valley folks in China cyber ops—names pending, but it's heating up.
Whew, listeners, from blacklists to bans, we're fortifying the digital Maginot Line, but China's not blinking. Stay vigilant—patch up, segment out, and zero-trust everything.
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more CyberPulse drops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and digital showdowns. Picture this: it's been a pulse-pounding week in the US-China CyberPulse arena, with defenses ramping up like a zero-day patch frenzy. Just days ago, on February 13th, the US Department of Defense dropped a bombshell, adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its Chinese Military Companies List—only to yank it back at the Pentagon's whisper. That glitch screamed internal drama, but it spotlighted the BIOSECURE Act from the 2026 NDAA, now locking out blacklisted Chinese biotech giants like BGI Group subsidiaries and WuXi AppTec from federal contracts. No more sneaky biotech backdoors.
Meanwhile, Congress is flexing hard. The House passed Congressman Mike Lawler's Remote Access Security Act, plugging that pesky Export Control Reform Act loophole—Chinese firms like ByteDance can't just cloud-rent Nvidia H200 or AMD MI325X chips anymore without jumping through fiery hoops. US Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security is case-by-case reviewing exports, slapping 25% tariffs, and demanding proof these bad boys won't juice China's AI edge or dodge security checks. China fired back mid-January with a sweeping ban on US and Israeli cyber tools from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point, citing data leaks—classic tit-for-tat fracturing our global threat intel sharing. As the Internet Governance Project warns, this geopolitical splintering blinds everyone to borderless botnets and malware.
Private sector's not sleeping. Fortinet Federal's CTO Felipe Fernandez nailed it at the Potomac Officers Club chatter: 2026 federal cyber priorities scream resilience against AI supply chain bombs, with agencies hardening data pipelines and models per the federal AI Action Plan. Solar world's shifting too—congressmembers like Pete Hegseth are pushing "Don't Buy Chinese" for government projects after unexplained comms devices popped up in Chinese inverters, per Energy Department labs and ex-NSA boss Mike Rogers. No proven malice yet, but rapid shutdown fears have nuked FEOC panels from BABA-compliant builds.
Internationally, it's chess: US Peace Corps launched Tech Corps to export AI stacks and cyber defenses abroad, countering China's whole-of-nation AI blitz—think DeepSeek's H200 hauls under NDRC conditions, or their nuclear-powered data centers closing the compute gap. States are reeling from CISA's shutdown squeeze, canceling meets and furloughing key teams, while Jamestown Foundation flags Chinese smart TVs as surveillance spies.
New tech? Behavioral intelligence is the AI-vs-AI frontline, per Cybersecurity Dive, spotting anomalies before they pwn. And FDD reports a federal grand jury indicting three Silicon Valley folks in China cyber ops—names pending, but it's heating up.
Whew, listeners, from blacklists to bans, we're fortifying the digital Maginot Line, but China's not blinking. Stay vigilant—patch up, segment out, and zero-trust everything.
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more CyberPulse drops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI