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The rules unveiled Friday by the Commerce Department require a license for U.S. companies to export advanced chips and chip-making equipment key to China’s technological goals, vastly expanding on existing rules restricting the export of advanced technologies to China. The rules cover the export of chip-manufacturing equipment used to make advanced memory chips—widely used in smartphones, personal computers, data servers and other everyday devices. They also cover equipment used to make basic computing chips used in…

WASHINGTON —  Five leaders of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that played a leading role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went on trial last week in Washington.The defendants, including Stewart Rhodes, the Yale-educated lawyer who founded the group, were charged with “seditious conspiracy”: plotting to attack the federal government by force to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.Prosecutors said Rhodes and others planned the assault on the Capitol, ordered their troops to bring…

The Gidgealpa floodplain is within the Coongie Lakes Ramsar site, identified at a state, national and international level as of significant conservation importance. Credit: Doug Gimesy, courtesy of The Pew Charitable Trusts A new study identifies major environmental concerns for the Lake Eyre Basin rivers, among the most pristine in the world.…

Washington does not have any "short-term solution to dependence on Taiwan's industry at this moment," says Melaine Sisson, a US national security strategy expert, calling government's $52 billion to help American chipmakers a "long-term approach." US Chips Act is not a "direct response" to Beijing's current…

The U.K. continued to try to stave off a financial and economic crisis on Wednesday as the country’s central bank carried out emergency buying of government bonds to stabilize a spiraling debt market, adding pressure on the government of new Prime Minister Liz Truss. The central bank’s surprise move to spend 1 billion pounds buying U.K. government debt spurred a rally in the bond market, and helped the embattled pound gain slightly against the U.S. dollar, though it was still down against…

Oh look. It's happened again. Image: Getty Images/iStockphotoTechnology is complicated.more Technically Incorrect So complicated that those who create it often don't realize the complications it engenders.The result, as has become very clear, is that security becomes a chimera.Lately, however, nations have expressed increasing hostility toward other nations. You might think the root cause of this is insecurity -- of the psychological kind.But for everyday IT professionals, this is inciting increasing pressures and…

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Lil Wayne didn’t take kindly to a Florida fan who threw something onstage during his set.The New Orleans native was performing in Jacksonville last Friday when he stopped the show to yell at the crowd after someone tossed what apparently was a bandana or flag at him.“This my first song. If a n***a gonna be throwing the shit at me, I ain’t gonna do another song, I’ll get my ass right up out this motherfucker,” he said. “It’s called respect. So, like I said, if a n***a gonna be throwing shit at me, I’ll respect that person…

LONDON— British Airways ICAGY -5.11% is cutting more than 10,000 flights through the rest of the summer flying season and into the winter, threatening to extend the aviation industry’s chaotic postpandemic recovery in Europe into next year. The airline said it is cutting flights to comply with an extension of London Heathrow Airport’s cap on departing passengers. It has also revised down its flying schedule from November through March,…

Photo: Anthony Behar (AP)A week after the extraordinary seizure of classified documents from the former president’s private Mar-a-lago residence, top congressional Democrats are vowing to take aggressive measures of their own to pry loose documents from a combative Trump-era official whom they’ve accused of impeding investigations into deleted Secret Service texts.In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s office publishedTuesday, Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Bennie Thompson warned that further…