Earlier this year China's planners saw a bubble develop as money was being poured in to data centre construction. In response, China added a Federal layer of planning approval above provincial government planning approval.

The Federal layer heavily favours planning approval for data centres that have easy access to abundant cheap energy - not just in a contract price sense, but in terms of a direct connection to nearby physical generation capacity. That pretty much factors down to solar+wind=>battery=>data centre. In a geographical sense that means approvals are much easier if the data centre is in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, or Xinjiang. As such, China has introduced data centre hubs.

Fun fact #1: 80% of the compute components must be manufactured inside China.
Fun fact #2: Foreign ownership is encouraged via data centre free trade zones.

If it's not one thing it'll be something else.

The decision comes first, the excuse afterward.

I'm guessing this isn't just random bureaucracy, rather it's part of their five year plan for a low-altitude economy. Basically a plan to create a regulated airspace in which drones / flying cars / whatevers etc can operate in the knowledge that the rules are already mostly known.

China's attempt to get out in front of another area of significant economic growth.

ah, yes, the terrible burden of 90+% home ownership, decades of near zero inflation on the everyday necessities of life, where "medical bankruptcy" isn't even a phrase and where blue collar workers get to retire on a full pension before white collar workers.

OOXML is so open that it defines system constants that are not documented.

First they give you the gateway drugs like insulin, next its pain killers and before you know it you're handing them three dollars a month to undergo cancer treatments.

Bastards.

When the lawyers arrive Donut will run the defence that they didn't have the intention of scamming investors, it's just that the investment failed because they believed CT's lies. CT will say that they didn't lie, but it's all a misunderstanding, and anyway, we relied on a guy we met in a bar. The directors will blame the CEO and the board papers will omit any useful details.

Someone got the money though.

Bullshit: "The company says the egg technology could help conserve at-risk bird species,"

Yep. Full of curious word choices intended for dumb readers.

Also unaddressed is the nominal two days in jail. Two days for two counts of what I'm guessing is the same conduct: ie for two tax returns he had a bank account in China that he didn't list. Two days in jail implies the court decided on one day per offence.

This has the hallmarks of one of those get-him-anyway-you-can cases which wouldn't happen outside of political instructions.

Glorified pattern matching should be able to crack all languages.

Yep. Any IT guy worth his salt would spot that and conclude that the process failed long before it reached the USB.

I'm guessing the IT contractor is busy inventing a bullshit excuse. I don't know the specific excuse, but I guarantee it'll have one or more of these words: hackers or China or Russia or dark net.

The huge advantage of solar in Africa is that it doesn't require extensive infrastructure. Same goes for the introduction of cell towers removing the need for networks of poles and wires.

Solar also greatly improves the balance of payment problems that plague Africa because every panel and every EV imported permanently reduces the unending monthly need to import fuel paid for in USD. Solar is the energy equivalent of compounding interest.

* Except for the encryption keys which were all issued by the US.

Yep, code for "We've tapped out private money, now we need National Security money".

So, the US has been using its own rule set, but nevertheless the failure to agree on an international rule set is solely the fault of those quarrelsome East Asians.