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- New York Post
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Microsoft has warned that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached its SharePoint software used by the US agency responsible for maintaining and modernizing the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, according to a report. The National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency that operates under the auspices of the Department of Energy, was among the targets of a hack allegedly carried out by Chinese-backed cybercriminals, according to Bloomberg News. A Dutch cybersecurity company estimates that around 400 government agencies in the US, Mauritius, Jordan, South Africa and the Netherlands were impacted by the hack, according to Bloomberg News. Advertisement 4 A US government agency responsible for maintaining the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons was reportedly targeted in a hack by Chinese-backed cybercriminals. U.S. DepartmentofDefense The Dutch firm, Eye Security, previously estimated that just 60 entities were impacted. A source familiar with the situation told the financial news site on Tuesday that no sensitive or classified information was known to have been stolen in the hack, which was made possible by exploiting a flaw in Microsoft's SharePoint document management software. 'On Friday, July 18th, the exploitation of a Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability began affecting the Department of Energy,' an agency spokesman told Bloomberg News. Advertisement 'The department was minimally impacted due to its widespread use of the Microsoft M365 cloud and very capable cybersecurity systems. A very small number of systems were impacted. All impacted systems are being restored.' The breaches have been ongoing since at least July 7, according to Adam Meyers, senior vice president at CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that has partnered with Microsoft to ward off potential cyber threats. 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Advertisement Every morning, the NY POSTcast offers a deep dive into the headlines with the Post's signature mix of politics, business, pop culture, true crime and everything in between. Subscribe here! Microsoft SharePoint is a platform used to store, organize, share and manage internal web content across an organization — similar to intranets. The NNSA wasn't the only agency that was targeted in the alleged cyberattack. Among the victims are the US Department of Education, Florida's Department of Revenue and the Rhode Island General Assembly, which is the Ocean State's legislative body. Internationally, governments in Europe and the Middle East have also been targeted. Cybersecurity researchers have detected breaches on more than 100 servers, representing at least 60 victims across various sectors, including energy, consulting and academia. 4 The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency that operates under the auspices of the Department of Energy. 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The Hill
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Selling US-made AI chips to China sacrifices America's global standing
In what Bloomberg termed 'a dramatic reversal,' the Trump administration will grant licenses to Nvidia Corp. so that it can sell its H20 chips to Chinese parties. In April, Trump officials had prohibited the sale of H20s to that country. At the same time, Advanced Micro Devices announced plans to resume sales of its MI308 artificial intelligence chip to China. The sale of advanced microchips to China is a mistake, almost certainly a grave one, but it is a mistake that the industry is determined to make. Not satisfied with exporting just the H20, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said at a press conference in Beijing this month that he wanted to sell even more advanced chips. 'The reason for that is because technology is always moving on,' he explained. 'It's not like wood.' 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'China's Communist Party has always been known for lying, and we need look no further than its tech leviathan Loongson Technology,' Blaine Holt, a retired U.S. Air Force general and now China commentator, told me this month. 'Loongson, we were told, was 'better than Intel' and powered everything electronic in China. The discovery that their flagship chip, the 3C6000, was barely on par with Intel chips from 13 generations ago has consequences for users, especially the People's Liberation Army.' Huang assures Americans that China will not use the H20 for its military. 'We don't have to worry about it,' he told CNN's Fareed Zakaria earlier this month. Despite what Huang says, we must worry. According to Burnham and Kershner, giving China the H20 'will allow it to rapidly integrate AI into its military while it continues to pursue self-sufficiency.' The H20, significantly more powerful than Nvidia's export-compliant H100 line, will be 'essential for AI deployment due to its memory capabilities,' the Foundation for Defense of Democracies scholars point out. 'The Trump administration,' they note, 'is giving China a much-needed boost in the race for artificial intelligence.' And that boost comes at a crucial time for AI development. 'The No. 1 factor that will define whether the U.S. or China wins this race is whose technology is most broadly adopted in the rest of the world,' said Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, in congressional testimony. 'Whoever gets there first will be difficult to supplant.' 'According to Jensen Huang, China is going to defeat the United States in the push for AI supremacy,' Brandon Weichert, senior national security editor of The National Interest, told me. Weichert said since the Trump administration's first attempt at slowing the sale of high-end chips to China 'Beijing's AI development has been slower than that of America's because they lacked direct and easy access to those high-end chips. Authorizing Huang's Nvidia to sell these chips to China will ensure that China does, in fact, outpace the Americans.' So why would Trump allow the sale of the H20 to China? Many suspect the permission was part of a deal: China resumes sales of rare earths to the U.S. and America removes chip restrictions. Lutnick confirmed the outlines of this arrangement. China certainly got the better of the bargain. America can source rare earths elsewhere or even buy them surreptitiously from Chinese parties — these minerals are actually so rare — but China must buy American chips, from Nvidia, AMD, or some other U.S. company. It is true that, up to now, Chinese parties have been able to buy Nvidia chips through black market channels, but now they will be able to get more chips at cheaper prices and at a faster pace because they will be buying from Nvidia directly. Speed, as Smith noted, is critical in the race to develop artificial intelligence. Beijing has been touting its technological supremacy, and nothing would undercut its grand claims more than if its AI development visibly stalled because the Chinese could not get microchips from American companies. Xi Jinping in June said that high tech is a main area of global competition. 'The Commerce Department made the right call in banning the H20,' Rep. John Moolenaar, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, posted on X last week. 'Now it must hold the line. We can't let the Chinese communists use American chips to train AI models that will power its military, censor its people and undercut American innovation.'
