Fri. 07/24 – The US Has A Quantum Internet Plan

Might Twitter have too many cooks in the kitchen to have decent op-sec? Intel has to delay its next gen chip process. Again. The US unveiled official plans for a quantum internet. AT&T announced its nationwide 5G network is operational. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts (Reuters)
• Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 (Tom's Hardware)
• Big Tech CEO hearing is 'likely' to be postponed (Protocol)
• U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum Internet that might be unhackable (Washington Post)
• AT&T's low-band 5G network is now available nationwide (CNET)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results (NYTimes)
• Robinhood and How to Lose Money (The Margins)
• Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook. (Rest Of World)
• The Inside Story of How a Sleep Tracker Became the Hottest Device of the Pandemic (Marker)
• How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire (The New Yorker)
• The case for and against banning TikTok (Vox)
• The App of the Summer Is Just a Random-Number Generator (The Atlantic)