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View More NewsOn March 23, the FCC issued an update to their Covered List, a list of equipment banned from obtaining regulatory approval necessary for U.S. sale (and thus effectively a ban on sale of new devices), to include all new routers produced in foreign countries unless they are specifically given an exception by the Department of Defense (DoD) or DHS. The Commission cited “security gaps in foreign-made routers” leading to widespread cyberattacks as justification for the ban, mentioning the high-profile attacks by Chinese advanced persistent threat actors Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon. Although the stated intention is to stem the very…
OpenAI’s “New Deal” for the AI age is full of old—and failed—ideas. On Monday, OpenAI published Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First. The 13-page white paper presents the frontier developer’s economic and regulatory prescriptions for a world with superintelligent AI. Starting with the positives, the paper rightly recognizes that bundling fringe benefits—health insurance and retirement plans—with employers harms workers by limiting labor market mobility. To ameliorate the problems of employer-sponsored benefits, OpenAI recommends creating “portable benefit platforms that pool contributions from multiple sources and route them into standardized accounts attached to the individual, not the…
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This week, we’re going to be talking about Israel—which is sometimes a subject I try to avoid—not because I don’t have opinions about the topic. I do. But because it’s one of those subjects on which debate and discussion often seems both divisive and futile.As some of you know, in a previous life, I was an opinion writer and reporter for the National Post newspaper here in Canada. I often travelled to Israel and wrote about that country, typically from what most would call a Zionist perspective.But for all the dozen of articles I wrote on the subject, I’m not…
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