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Applied Materials reaches $252 million settlement with U.S. Commerce Department, resolving allegations it illegally shipped chipmaking equipment at minimum wage to China (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 12, 2026

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Business & Money

FAA abruptly lifts order to stop flights at El Paso; Trump official says Defense Department disabled Mexican cartel drones

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 11, 2026

El Paso International AirportGoogle EarthThe Federal Aviation Administration abruptly suspended all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in…

Technology

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: The SMART USA Institute, funded by the US CHIPS Act and focused on digital…

Technology

Sources: The US Department of Commerce has proposed banning TP-Link Systems network devices due to TP-Link’s ties to China, gaining support from more than 6 federal agencies (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 30, 2025

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Sources: The US Department of Commerce has proposed banning TP-Link Systems network devices due to…

Politics

If Democrats win the House, they’ll take on Trump’s Justice Department

By Frank M. EverettOctober 26, 2025

If Democrats win back the House of Representatives next November, there will be no shortage of areas requiring accountability within…

Technology

Sources: Quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave are in talks to give the U.S. Commerce Department equity in exchange for more than $10 million each in funding (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 23, 2025

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave are in talks to give…

Technology

The US trade department cancels a Biden administration agreement with non-profit Natcast to oversee $ 7.4 billion with semiconductor research funds, the illegal caller (David Shepardson / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 25, 2025

Featured podcasts Tech Brew is home: Uncle Sam’s intel stake Tech News titles every day. 15 minutes and you are…

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Sources: Thousands of US export license applications, including for NVIDIA flea expeditions to China, are blocked due to the agitation to the US trade department (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 1, 2025

Reuters:: Sources: Thousands of US export license applications, including for NVIDIA flea expeditions to China, are blocked due to the…

Technology

A look at the Piracy Department of the Russian Unit GRU 29155, which began in 2012, and its involvement in the Cyber-War and Disinformation campaigns (the initiate)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2025

The initiate:: A look at the Piracy Department of the Russian Unit GRU 29155, which began in 2012, and its…

Technology

The American Energy Department says that its sofa supercomputer, due in 2026, will use the latest Vera Rubin chips of Nvidia integrated into servers cooled by Liquid by Dell (Stephen Nelis / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 30, 2025

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:: The American Energy Department says that its Doudna supercomputer, due in 2026, will use the latest…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

2026 was a crazy year for Southeast Asian stock markets – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Browsing: Department

Applied Materials reaches $252 million settlement with U.S. Commerce Department, resolving allegations it illegally shipped chipmaking equipment at minimum wage to China (Reuters)

FAA abruptly lifts order to stop flights at El Paso; Trump official says Defense Department disabled Mexican cartel drones

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

Sources: The US Department of Commerce has proposed banning TP-Link Systems network devices due to TP-Link’s ties to China, gaining support from more than 6 federal agencies (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

If Democrats win the House, they’ll take on Trump’s Justice Department

Sources: Quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave are in talks to give the U.S. Commerce Department equity in exchange for more than $10 million each in funding (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

The US trade department cancels a Biden administration agreement with non-profit Natcast to oversee $ 7.4 billion with semiconductor research funds, the illegal caller (David Shepardson / Reuters)

Sources: Thousands of US export license applications, including for NVIDIA flea expeditions to China, are blocked due to the agitation to the US trade department (Reuters)

A look at the Piracy Department of the Russian Unit GRU 29155, which began in 2012, and its involvement in the Cyber-War and Disinformation campaigns (the initiate)

The American Energy Department says that its sofa supercomputer, due in 2026, will use the latest Vera Rubin chips of Nvidia integrated into servers cooled by Liquid by Dell (Stephen Nelis / Reuters)