President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America
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Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator Research Scholar | ISOC Trustee | ICANN Nomcom | ICTTM Board | Tech for Good Asia | DSET Taiwan consultant | Ex Hong Kong IT Legislator, HKNet | Purdue ECE Grad & Advisory Board | https://charlesmok.substack.com/
President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America
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White House Unveils President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America. The point on securing critical infrastructure still stops at the boundary of the datacenters. What's good when networks are disconnected if undersea and/or land cables are cut?
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NYT: Big Tech’s uncertain future in the Persian Gulf
//Undersea cables are sitting ducks//
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1. Of course TikTok wouldn’t encrypt. It’s in their PRC DNA.
2. Why does BBC call encryption “controversial”?
TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk
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Jack Dorsey’s 4,000 Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-Washing
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Anthropic’s Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI’s $200 million Pentagon contract
fortune.com/2026/03/02/a...
Do We Need Alignment Between Internet Governance and AI Governance?
By Charles Mok
charlesmok.substack.com/p/do-we-need...
Do We Need Alignment Between Internet Governance and AI Governance?
By Charles Mok
circleid.com/posts/do-we-...
When the Internet Goes Dark, the Truth Goes With It
Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever.
www.wired.com/story/plesti...
Survey: Most Americans Say Tech Companies Should Be Allowed to Set AI Limits
A Morning Consult survey commissioned by ITIF examines public attitudes toward AI in military operations, surveillance, and corporate responsibility surrounding the Pentagon–Anthropic dispute.
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Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center
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Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center
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Once firms begin saying “no,” more will follow.
Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
Only the ultimate stupidity can unite Amodei and Altman.
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
www.axios.com/2026/02/27/a...
India LLMs take on global giants with potent weapon: Local languages
Sarvam AI and BharatGen focus on local dialects, linguistic nuances to gain edge
asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...
Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
CEO Dario Amodei’s statement came less than 24 hours before the deadline in the Pentagon’s ultimatum.
www.theverge.com/news/885773/...
A surprise ending! Does it make sense though? Just because "it's too expensive"?
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
EU–Singapore Digital Trade Agreement enters into force
On 1 February 2026, the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) entered into force.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-sing...
Coming down south....
OpenAI plants flag in Alphabet's backyard with nearly 450,000-square-foot Mountain View deal
www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news...
My latest article in collaboration with Wesley Chu on Taiwan's AI law:
Taiwan’s AI Basic Act Can Be a Model for Asia
Charles Mok, Chen-Tso (Wesley) Chu / Feb 25, 2026
www.techpolicy.press/taiwans-ai-b...
In Dec, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan passed the AI Basic Act, and in Jan, it was signed by President Lai. The new law seeks to lay down Taiwan’s “soft law” foundation for a development journey toward economic security through AI, write Wesley Chu and Charles Mok.
www.techpolicy.press/taiwans-ai-b...
Exclusive: DeepSeek withholds latest AI model from US chipmakers including Nvidia, sources say
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Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
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Unspeakable
The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
Anthropic: Chinese AI firms created 24,000 fraudulent accounts for 'distillation attacks'
Anthropic says companies like DeepSeek are engaged in widespread fraud.
mashable.com/article/anth...
The Irish technology being used to track Russian submarines
Method developed at Trinity College Dublin sends laser pulses through subsea fibre-optic cables to detect ships, marine life and threats to security
www.thetimes.com/article/3269...
How Private Equity Debt Left a Leading VPN Open to Chinese Hackers
Layoffs at Pulse Secure accelerated as financial pressure mounted
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Hollywood's copyright fight meets China's AI boom
www.axios.com/2026/02/19/h...
Every Trade Decision Has a Cost. The Question Is Whether It's Visible.
€3,000 is not the risk. Uninformed decisions are.
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Oh yea? Love to see what they put up there, esp those content banned by Russia, China, and so on.
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...