Sophie-Charlotte Fischer

Personal views | Previously @ETH_en @CSS_ETHZurich @GovAI_ |

[Janis Kluge @jakluge]

Due to sanctions, #Russia is switching from Windows to #Linux. The government wants to force domestic programmers to convert their software. But there are doubts: Many systems will have to be rebuilt from scratch, and there are few Linux experts around. https://t.co/Ucp181slMV

[Adam Segal (@[email protected]) @adschina]

Biden Issues New Order to Block Chinese Investment in Technology in the U.S. https://t.co/CDl0hJl71x

[Markus Anderljung @Manderljung]

I’m starting a policy team at @GovAI_. We aim to do rigorous analysis of what influential actors like governments and AI labs should do in the next few years to prepare the world for more advanced AI capabilities. We’ll also work to make those recommendations a reality.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Today in partnership with @emblebi, we’re releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the #AlphaFold database by over 200x - from nearly 1 million to 200+ million structures: https://t.co/GjVES2pBFY 1/

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Huawei, which accounts for 33% of network equipment installed in Russia, is suspending all orders in Russia due to fear of secondary sanctions by the US, Forbes Russia reports. Huawei also sent part of the employees of the Russian office on vacation for a month. #Dragonbear

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

2) Quantum Center will be anchored at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark https://t.co/Psodz2FOyo

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

Interesting to see that European universities play an active role re #NATO's defence accelerator #DIANA - 1) Imperial College London will host the European DIANA headquarters along with an accelerator

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

@mchorowitz @Penn @perryworldhouse Congratulations!

[Paul Triolo @pstAsiatech]

Chinese tech firms see warning shot from US sanctions on Singaporean firm
With fresh US sanctions last week on 21 entities, including a Singaporean electronics wholesaler, risks to Chinese firms over exposure to Russia are increasing
https://t.co/0YOGksBLC3 via @scmpnews

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

Also an increasingly important issue for Europe - clean energy transition, different dependencies cc @KamasaJulian

[Paul Triolo @pstAsiatech]

The US depends on unreliable foreign sources for many of the strategic and critical materials necessary for the clean energy transition — such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese for large-capacity batteries.
https://t.co/i3Yb00BUhH

[Janka Oertel @oertel_janka]

The statements following the EU-China summit made clear that it was a frosty meeting.There was little agreement between the two sides and the conversation was far from being “business as usual”. A frank exchange of opposing views. Systemic rivalry is a new reality. 1/6

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

Interessanter Artikel im @manager_magazin @ckyrious zur Frage, wie höhere Rüstungsausgaben die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Start-ups und der #Bundeswehr verändern @CIHBw https://t.co/SrA2B2EE9o

[Paul Triolo @pstAsiatech]

China’s Peace cable arrives in Kenya
The Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe (Peace) cable is part of Beijing’s Digital Silk Road initiative and will also connect Pakistan, Cyprus, Egypt, France, and Malta.
#DSR #BRI
https://t.co/QD6IkzlHdh via @scmpnews

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

The sanctions target for instance Russia's biggest chipmaker Mikron, Nii Vektor AO (satellite manufacturing), T-Platforms (computer company) and the Molecular Electronics Research Institute (navigation equipment)

[Sophie-Charlotte Fischer @DrSCFischer]

The US imposes a new round of #sanctions on Russian tech companies https://t.co/vqQf14L2Ix

[Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko]

English Translation:
When the Ukrainians examined the downed Russian UAVs such as Orlan, Eleron, Forpost, and Granat, they found that all electronic cards were imported and made out of Russia with civilian electronic class components from companies such as TI, ST, Microchip,
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[Thomas Brewster @iblametom]

NEW - Ukraine has officially started using Clearview facial recognition technology.

It’s identifying dead Russian soldiers, finding contacts for their family and friends and informing them of the death.

But what if the software misidentifies a soldier?

https://t.co/w6oxy8faNk

[Tyson Barker @tysonbarker]

Massive breakthrough in post-Schrems II 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Privacy Shield negotiations. As always the devil in the details, but Von der Leyen has stated that a solution to transatlantic data flows has been reached in principle. 👇

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Russian industry widely uses Cisco computer systems. Now Cisco stopped its operations, ceased maintaining equipment and is blocking it. That's an internal document of the Main Radio Frequency Center, managing Russian radio infrastructure. Ofc they use Cisco. Ofc they're alarmed