Techstrong News Recap – April 11, 2023
On April 11, William Willis covered China’s launch of a cybersecurity probe into U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology, Baidu suing Apple and app developers over fake Ernie bot apps appearing on the app store and Japan planning to provide Rapidus $2.27 billion in additional funding for a plant in Hokkaido. He also talked about Foxconn investing $800 million in southern Taiwan for EV production. Finally, he previewed articles from Container Journal, Security Boulevard and DevOps.com, which covered the importance of keeping software up to date, CrowdStrike adding honeytokens to fight cyberattacks and a report by CircleCI showing productivity gains in DevOps.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for April 11th. First up. China has initiated a cybersecurity investigation into Micron Technology.
One of the largest memory chip makers in the United States. The movie scene is a retaliation after us allies in Asia and Europe announced new restrictions on the sale of key Technologies to Beijing. The cyberspace administration of China will be reviewing the product sold by Micron in the country according to a statement released by The Watchdog the move aims to ensure the security of key information infrastructure Supply chains and maintain National Security.
This announcement follows Japan's decision to restrict the export of advanced chip manufacturing equipment to countries including China in a bid to protect National Security. In response shares in Micron Technology who derive over 10% of their revenue from China had its biggest drop in three months. Next Baidu the Chinese search engine giant has filed lawsuits against relevant app developers and apple over fake copies of its artificial intelligence powered Ernie bot app available on Apple's App Store.
The company launched the erniebot last month, which was touted as China's closest answer to the US developed chatbot chat GPT. In a statement posted on its official BYU AI we chat account but I do a set is lodged lawsuits in court against developers behind the counterfeit applications of the Ernie bot as well as the Apple company Baidu was also warned against people selling access codes to its Ernie bot app, or they will likely face the same fate. 27 billion dollars in funding to build the semiconductor plant in the northern island of hokido.
The additional funding will help rapid us build a prototype line that is scheduled to launch in 2025. In February rapid is secured an initial 70 billion yen in funding from the Japanese government rapidus chair. So the company would need around seven trillion yen though to begin mass-producing Advanced logic chips by 2027 with support from IBM.
Next up foxcon has announced plans to invest 820 million dollars in a new manufacturing facility in southern Taiwan over the next three years to support its electric vehicle ambitions. The investment will include plants for electric buses and batteries for EVS. Foxconn which you might know is one of the major suppliers and iPhone assemblers for Apple also as big plants for the EV Market as it seeks to diversify as Revenue base.
On container Journal we have an article looking at the importance of keeping software up to date Cloud native is heavily focused on security, but oftentimes organizations fall behind an updating software to the latest patch and security releases. An analysis by buoyant found that out of the tens of thousand clusters. com.
On Security Boulevard, we've an article looking at how crowdstrike has made it easier to add honey tokens to its Falcon endpoint protection to simplify identifying compromise credentials, that could be used in a Cyber attack. Crowdstrike is stated that this new addition will create honey token accounts in Microsoft ad without requiring additional configurations. To learn more go to Security Boulevard calm.
com. We've an article looking at a circle CI report showing devops productivity gains from Circle CIS analysis over 14 million workflows the meantime to recovery decreased by about 13% year over year additionally 50% of workflows were covered from a failed Run in less than 64 minutes. com and that's today's text wrong news recap.
