Intel screwed Optane by limiting it to very few chipsets of their own (not even able to use with all Intel systems, if you wanted).

If they had wanted Optane to take off, they would have openned it up, so it could be used by all Intel chipsets, and allow AMD and anyone else who wanted to use it, to also use it.

They would have made alot more money making Optane if there was higher demand, and it could still be around.

Too bad they tried to restrict it to such a small number of systems that it eventually had to die.

If you read the link, read the article, clicked on the link that it shows as the source, you get this headline :

Russian Cosmonaut Allegedly Photographed Confidential SpaceX Docs, Removed From NASA Crew-12 Mission

And if you clicked the link on that, to the russia source, google translate states the following :

Headline :
Cosmonaut Artemyev was expelled from the crew of the Crew-12. He photographed SpaceX documents and “brought out in the phone” classified information – sources
And part of the article :
Trishkin’s sources said that Artemyev was expelled for violating the export restrictions of ITAR: the astronaut allegedly photographed the documentation of SpaceX, and then “brought secret information on the phone”. In an interview with The Insider, the expert said that an interdepartmental investigation was launched:
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So, it does seem he had access to documentation that he should not have seen at all. It's not taking some pics of just the ship / flight controls, etc.

Arn't there some China companies making RAM? Including the memory modules on the DIMMs?

Maybe its time to have a closer look at them. If they are cheaper, and have decent specs, why would I not want to buy from them?

Anyway ram has no communication capabilities, so am not worried about security and stuff.

Regardless it exists or not, all someone has to do is remember a couple of details are tell their people about it. You never know how much help that may provide to the other side.

And again, why was he given access to such material?

Break compatibility with file formats and you are inviting libre office or others to replace whatever new crap MS is slinging.

Hope they break compatibility for many things. Including other software that is used by many people.

Will not be surprised if the Indian government has more influence on Apple once Apple has sunk more money into the country, and is alot more dependant on it's products being manufacturered within India.

If India makes (lets call it) 75% of all Apple gear, you can bet that Apple will have no choice but to follow whatever India government says, unless they are willing to have little or no products to sell for a year or two while they restart in another country.

Most(if not all) large / successful / high profile chinese companies seem to be linked in one way or another to the Chinese government.

Even if you started as a tiny startup and grow organically, by the time you get to a decent size, someone from the CCP will be there.

I mean, look at Alibaba. Started totally private (as I understand) and now has a party committee, etc there. Jack may be a CCP member, but that does not mean the company itself was initially funded / started by the CCP.

I think you can probably expect there is some "China" or "CCP" connection to this company, just cos of it's international profile, even if it's not a very large org right now.

If I understand correctly, its not easy to create new user accounts here either.

Something about emailing the mods to create an account.

As such, this is probably a dieing website, since I doubt many people will be interested in emailing a mod to get an account created.

If he wasnt allowed to copy / read / see that info, why was he allowed access?

What if he was one of those with "photographic memory"? In which case once he sees it, you can consider the info as copied anyway, without needing a camera or anything else.

Maybe someone with the resources and irritated about not being world leading will put some resources on such fundamental research in the future?

A certain wealthy, large country comes to mind.

Isn't the web supposed to be vendor neutral as long as the sites follow the HTML standards?

Maybe just duplicate whatever glonass signals are being broadcast in peru or wherever (encrypted or not) and let the rocket think its halfway around the world? Its possible they do not have systems in place to ignore the signal if it suddenly changes and shows a location far away.

I do wonder how the "workers" manage to install remote access tools on those laptops.

I have seen/used a a few laptops issued by some companies and they seem pretty locked down. Including preventing you from installing anything you wanted on the device.

They charge the scammers extra for ads, everytime they get flagged.

So they already doing it to earn extra money.