Speaker 1: It's ting here, bringing you the inside scoop on beiging bites,
Speaker 1: US China tech war updates and all boy has the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks been a front row seat to
Speaker 1: global cyber drama. Grab your popcorn. This script's hotter than
Speaker 1: a red hot GPU. First cyber mayhem took center stage
Speaker 1: a coordinated Chinese cyber attack called Salt Typhoon. Salt Typhoon
Speaker 1: wasn't a little drizzle. Experts say this assault targeted critical
Speaker 1: telecommunications infrastructure across eighty countries, amassing personal and sensitive data,
Speaker 1: possibly on newly every American security officials called it unrestrained,
Speaker 1: with the scope only now coming to light after years
Speaker 1: of patient infiltration. The FBI in US Capitol police are
Speaker 1: busy tracing clever impersonator emails sent from a foul Congressman
Speaker 1: John Mulina to U S trade groups trying to fish
Speaker 1: for legislative secrets, just days ahead of crucial trade talks
Speaker 1: in Stockholm. The payload sophisticated malware traced to APT four one,
Speaker 1: a flagship Chinese state linked hacking crew. If opened, these
Speaker 1: e mails would have handed Chinese spies a portal into
Speaker 1: US negotiations. Think Mission impossible, but with more email and
Speaker 1: less tom cruise, the trend behind a carnage cyber attacks
Speaker 1: have practically doubled Since twenty twenty three. Chinese state hackers
Speaker 1: no longer work alone private firm Zaka's force multipliers for
Speaker 1: Beijing's ambitions, all thanks to twenty seventeen's National Intelligence Law ODESSA.
Speaker 1: In the narrative is the Shinhai contractor I soon outed
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four for running a cyber espionage factory,
Speaker 1: giving us a rare glimpse into the marriage of state
Speaker 1: and private cyber muscle. Now on to the silicon skirmish.
Speaker 1: Chip controls are back in the headlines. Washington's export controls
Speaker 1: are no band aid. These are surgical strikes designed to
Speaker 1: keep China away from power AI chips, neural networks, and
Speaker 1: advanced memory. A new deal last month allowed Nvidia and
Speaker 1: AMD to sell lesser chips to China for a price
Speaker 1: the U S Government pockets fifteen percent of sales, a
Speaker 1: spicy compromise after six years of ever tightening controls, But
Speaker 1: the Semiconductor Industry Association is lobbying hard against any tougher restrictions,
Speaker 1: worried about locking out American firms from a billion customer
Speaker 1: market and losing the innovation race. There's more policy churn.
Speaker 1: America wants to switch Samsung and s k Heinex the
Speaker 1: memory kings from open ended permissions to annual site licenses
Speaker 1: for China bound chip equipment. South Korea's execs are sweating
Speaker 1: about bureaucracy slowing down repair cycles and upgrades, and the
Speaker 1: proposed system aims to keep Chinese fabs running without letting
Speaker 1: them reboot, a leap frog into next gen chips. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: China's military civil fusion is ducing AI progress. Civilian universities
Speaker 1: and private drones companies now feed the People's Liberation Army,
Speaker 1: with this month's military parade in Beijing flaunting AI drones,
Speaker 1: laser weapons, and more. This blurring of lines makes it
Speaker 1: brutally hard for the US to strike a balance. How
Speaker 1: do you police high tech when civilian and defense suppliers
Speaker 1: are the same. So what does it mean for the
Speaker 1: tech world? Experts warn delays in China's access to high
Speaker 1: end AI chips by America time to innovate, But China's
Speaker 1: relentless drive for self reliance means borrowing is only ever temporary.
Speaker 1: Both economies find themselves in a codependent deadlock. US wants
Speaker 1: market share and control, China wants self sufficiency and security.
Speaker 1: Looking forward, get ready for more creative policy workarounds ongoing
Speaker 1: cyber cat and mouse, and the world where even the
Speaker 1: chips in your toaster might be the subject of global intrigue.
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