It's a significant impact on everyone. Everyone I know uses Chinese-OEM'd transceivers because they're about 1/5th to 1/10th the price of the same thing when it has a Cisco sticker on it.

Also, in terms of a device that converts electrical to optical signalling being a means for CCP bogeymen to exfiltrate data, I know you have to be a special grade of idiot to work in the Trump administration but do these guys have any idea how these devices work? Although it could be a blessing in disguise, they could think they've banning Chinese-made CB radios.

They don't automatically make them dumber, at best they have no noticeable effect on their learning. At worst, they're worse off.

So the headline should really read "Schools ditch one expensive pointless tech toy for a different brand of expensive pointless tech toy. Also, teachers pay to remain at 1980s levels".

Absolutely, yes. Single-chip designs are always compromises, for example you could screw up some on-chip hardware RNGs by lowering the supply voltage, using irregular clocking, and a bunch of other tricks. A proper HSM has a ton of additional circuitry to isolate it from external influences on its operation. A single SoC isn't an HSM no matter what the vendor's sales staff tell you.

No-one certified it. Proper HSMs are created by people with decades of experience and get enormous amounts of evaluation by other people with decades of experience. "Hardware wallets" are hobby projects created by people who think they can take an STM32, turn on the security bits, and sell it as an HSM. The crowdfunding will go well because the crypto bros will go gaga over it, but don't expect it to actually be secure.

The clock, to make sure they don't run out of time before investors realise they're just seeing who can built the biggest bonfire of dollar bills.

It's a bit like the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s when they only had access to domestically-made equipment. Only back then we did it to them as a Cold War act of aggression, and now the US is voluntarily doing it to itself. Quite bizarre.

Nononono, you've understood it wrong, he's going to wave a chainsaw around on a stage in Argentina.

Aren't the required qualifications for being an influencer either being a THOT if female or neo-nazi misogynist if male? What else is required beyond that?

It had the guardrails disabled. That's sort of like pulling all the control rods out of a reactor and waiting expectantly to see what happens.

Depends on the country you're in. Cheques haven't existed here for decades, but OTOH when you do a bank transfer it asks you to verify the account holder, so it'll verify the account number against the name "Wildcat Contractors Inc." vs "J.Random Phisher LLC".

This is exactly what happens when you sanction something that anyone with a few billion dollars lying around can build. No sanctions, you keep them dependent on you and paying you for it. Sanctions, they build their own facilities and do it themselves. And then after that's done they undercut you and flood the market and you go out of business. Way to go, USG!

The EU hasn't been GOP-Republican since early May 1945.

Is Fecebook's verified sign a blue checkmark?

And the headline would be more accurate by saying "Toddler has tantrum, throws toys out of cot".

Yes they can. A court orders you to provide the password, you refuse, you're now in contempt of court and can be detained indefinitely under arbitrarily bad prison conditions until you decide to not be in contempt of court any more.