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The Trump administration is turning up the heat on Chinese artificial intelligence. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled this week that the US could impose sanctions on Chinese open AI models, citing intellectual property theft. It marks a significant escalation — moving beyond hardware export controls to target the models themselves, raising real questions about how you enforce that in practice.
Shifting from geopolitics to privacy, Apple has quietly patched a flaw in its Hide My Email feature — but the timing tells the real story. The vulnerability, which allowed virtually anyone to uncover a user's actual email address, had been known to Apple for more than a year. It took a report from four-oh
