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China issues national standards for automotive chips

BEIJING: China's industry ministry on Monday issued plans for a set of national standards for semiconductors used in the automotive sector. China will formulate more than 30 key automotive chip standards by 2025 and more than 70 related standards by 2030, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a statement. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/china-issues-national-standards-for-automotive-chips-TheFOXposts-44724.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Telstra ‘working urgently’ to fix national outage affecting calls

Telstra customers are experiencing a major outage as the telco reports issues with making and receiving calls. Technicians are working to fix the national problem and restore the network, and say it’s unclear when the issue will be fixed. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Telstra reports national outage as customers suffer connectivity issues. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The outage occurred on Monday night, with a flood of incident reports recorded about 10pm, according to Down Detector. “We’re sorry for the late-night hassle,” Telstra said in an outage alert on its website. “We are experiencing some difficulty at the moment with the network.” The telco said it was dealing with an “issue affecting some mobile customers making and taking calls ”. “Our technicians are working urgently to fix the issue.” Calls to triple-0 and mobile data are not affected by the outage. A Telstra spokesperson told 7NEWS.com.au: “If customers are experiencing issues, we...

Five ways TikTok is seen as threat to US national security

Many in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security. The following is a look at five reasons why: Data sharing TikTok -- like its rivals Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube -- thrives on data and there seems to be no limit to how much young users are willing to share about themselves on the super addictive app. TikTok's critics worry that all this information is being processed by a Chinese company in China where the Communist Party reigns supreme. But some experts believe the threat is overblown and that nefarious actors can make their way to the troves of data no matter who owns the platform and where it is based. "If we're talking about US citizen data, it's the Wild West," said Justin Sherman, a senior fellow at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. "There's very little regulation, companies collect tons of data all the time, whether they...