"Russia's Sputnik, China's People's Daily, Iran's Tasnim News Agency" These are really propaganda machines, and the open above-board kind. China bans Facebook. Literally the only purpose for People's Daily to exist on Facebook is propaganda. Why are these even allowed on Facebook in the first place?

Some publisher doesn't publish my book. CENSORSHIP!

Lots of signals. These state sponsored hacker groups are not disposable one time thing. They are active for many years. There are enough fingerprints in the MO, tooling, even hacking infrastructure (e.g. c&c servers). Typically, the way it works is that you tie multiple security incidents together, back to the same APT group. And then, a pattern will emerge to hint you about the attribution.

Pre-2016, these hacks exist, but people just assume these are the typical state espionage. Now given that the Russian playbook works, there is suddenly a new strategy to adopt. The failure to punish foreign election interference will make US elections the Olympics of information warfare.

What makes you think they are not developing it themselves. They did buy Kiva for $775m.. It's a reasonable goal to automate the picker as the next step. The purpose of such competition is to kindle interest, not to buy an already available solution. And to be reasonable, the winner is likely to be a partial solution at best.

That won't work very well. Many large h1b employers (say Microsoft) already have remote offices. If h1b becomes too expensive, they will just put people in other places that have loose immigration policies. AFAIK, Microsoft has the Vancouver office for a similar reason, to accomodate people if they can't to get h1b. Right now, these people will eventually move back to US on L1. But if neither H1b nor L1 is feasible, it's not entirely unimaginable that Microsoft will just expand the Vancouver office. Plus, Vancouver isn't really that far away from Redmond.

You are assuming those 18000 folks laid off by MSFT are mainly US tech workers... which is very wrong...

Hong kong stock exchange is okay with VIE. Tencent, for example, is listed in Hkex through VIE. The real problem is that Hkex is still reluctant to waive its 'one share one vote' rule. But, Alibaba's founder clearly wants to control the decision power. This kind of dual-class structure is common in US, but is forbidden in HK.
VIE is nothing new here. Granted, VIE is a risk, but it's a well-known and manageable risk.

I would assume this emulation layer is still not perfect. Say, many android apps have arm binaries. There are other subtle gaps in user differences as well. You really don't want to make it look like an android emulator for chrome os.

Exactly. These limitations are well known in the autonomous car community. These are not much harder to solve than what's been already solved. It makes sense to solve the majority of the cases and then start working on the edge cases.

My understanding is CAs have limited interest in this matter. The product they are selling to website owners is really that green lock in the address bar. As long as that green lock icon is there, SHA1 or SHA256 won't make any difference. In this sense, deprecation should actually start at the browser.