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Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules
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Last October, dronemaker DJI sued the US Department of Defense, arguing it should no longer face the stigma of being listed as a “Chinese Military Company” and continue to risk business as a result.
It just lost.
While US District Court judge Paul Friedman “cannot conclude” that DJI is “indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist Party,” he found that that DoD has broad discretion to decide which companies do and do not belong on the list of Chinese military companies.
Friedman concluded there was enough evidence that DJI is supported and recognized by the Chinese government to call it a “a military-civil fusion contributor,” and that state-sponsored entity Chengtong has “some unspecified ownership stake” in the company. Just being a “military-civil fusion contributor” is enough to label it a Chinese Military Company as well, according to the rules (section 1260H) for that designation.
He also rejected quite a few of the DoD’s other claims for insufficient evidence, and pointed out that it confused two of China’s different industrial development zones when trying to prove DJI’s factories were located in a special state-sponsored zone.
But the fact that China’s National Development and Reform Commission designates DJI as a “National Enterprise Technology Center,” which gives it large cash subsidies, “special financial support” and “a large number of tax benefits” was enough for this judge to agree that the DoD can call it a Chinese Military Company if it wants.
And though DJI argued that the Chinese arms of Volkswagen and Nokia aren’t being treated the same way despite their “similar attributes,” Friedman says the DoD has “broad discretion to decide to place X on
the list, while also deciding not to place Y on the list.”
This is just the latest blow against DJI in the United States, where it faces a total import ban on new products this December, and where US customs has already stopped blocking many consumer drone shipments, to the point that shelves have gone bare, scammers are setting up shop, loopholes may be getting exploited, and DJI doesn’t bother launching new drones here at all.
But it is a decision that DJI could possibly appeal, and we’ve asked the company if it will. You can read the judge’s full opinion, including his overview of various kinds of evidence presented by the DoD and DJI, below.
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The app for Amazon’s Blink security cameras experienced an issue for a few hours Friday night prevented users from accessing their cameras, but Amazon has rolled out a fix, spokesperson Emma Daniels tells The Verge. Users on Amazon’s general Blink support forum and on the Blink Cameras subreddit reported issues accessing the app, with many running into a vague error with a 503 status code.
In a thread on Reddit with more than 150 comments, users from all over the US, including California, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, reported seeing the 503 error. That thread was first posted at 4:54PM ET. Amazon’s support forum had multiple threads flagging the 503 error, with threads starting to pop up late Friday afternoon.
My colleague Jen Tuohy is also had problems logging into the Blink app. I don’t own any Blink cameras, but when I downloaded the app and tried to make an account, the app showed me an error message with a 403 status code. After the fix was rolled out, I was able to make an account without any problems.
Recordings and notifications were not affected by the issue, Daniels says.
Update, September 26th: Amazon says it rolled out a fix for the issue.
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The bot, codenamed Veritas, allows Apple developers to test the fundamentals of what could become the next-generation Siri AI, as reported by Bloomberg.
The post Apple is Using a ChatGPT-Like Bot to Test Potential Siri Upgrades appeared first on TechRepublic.
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After successfully manipulating Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and eventually failing to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, President Donald Trump has named his next target for retribution: Microsoft head of global affairs Lisa Monaco. He’s calling for her to be fired.
On Truth Social, Trump claims that Monaco, who just took the job in May and only announced publicly a month ago, is “corrupt,” “deranged,” “a menace to U.S. national security,” and other forms of badmouthing, but it seems her biggest crime in Trump’s eyes is having worked as the 39th Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President Biden and AG Merrick Garland. Garland was in charge of the federal prosecution of Trump.
Trump writes that he’s already stripped Monaco of security clearances, but suggests that her role at Microsoft now lets her access “Highly Sensitive Information.”
It’s not clear why Trump took this moment to go after Monaco, but it’s possible he’s just now becoming aware of her Microsoft role. CNBC notes that Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo posted about Monaco’s new job just last night.
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