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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Ukraine rips Elon Musk for disrupting sneak attack on Russian fleet with Starlink cutoff - CNBC    WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian official slammed Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for ordering engineers to shut off Starlink's satellite network over Crimea last year in order to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships. In the early days of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, as Western governments worked to supply Kyiv with artillery and air defense systems, the first of Musk's Starlink terminals arrived in the country. The billionaire eventually soured on the arrangement. "Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes," Musk said, according to the book. He told Isaacson that he was worried the Ukrainian attack on Russian vessels would provoke the Kremlin into launching a nuclear war. The book, titled "Elon Musk," will be released Tuesday. Continued here Inside Apple’s Impossible War On Child Exploitation - Forbes    Joe Mollick had spent much of his life dreaming of becoming a rich and famous oncologist, a luminary of cancer treatment, the man who would cure the disease for good. It was a quixotic quest for the 60-year-old, one that left him defeated and hopelessly isolated. He turned to pornography to ease his feelings of loneliness. When those feelings became more severe, so did his taste for porn; he began seeking out child sexual abuse material (CSAM). When the cops first caught Mollick uploading CSAM on a messaging application called Kik in 2019, they searched his electronics and discovered a stash of 2,000 illegal images and videos of children and some 800 files of what a search warrant reviewed by Forbes described as "child erotica." Investigators found that material had been uploaded and stored in his iCloud account, though Apple hadn't been the one to notify the police. It was Kik that provided the tip that led to Mollick's capture and two-year prison sentence. The company was alerted to the images by a Microsoft tool called PhotoDNA, which uses a digital fingerprint to identify known CSAM. That Apple didn't flag the illegal material isn't surprising: Other than its standard scan of outgoing email attachments, the company has long chosen not to screen unencrypted iCloud data for known CSAM. And while it developed a cryptographic system to do just that, Apple abandoned it at the end of 2022, a polarizing move that drew praise from privacy hawks and outrage from child safety advocates. The company framed the controversial decision as reflective of its commitment to privacy—a stance that has earned the world's richest company plenty of plaudits. Continued here If China's Boom is Over, Where Will Demand for Commodities Come From? - The Emerging Markets Investor    China’s economy has experienced a multi-decade period of high growth, similar to “miracle” surges previously witnessed by other countries. Today’s wealthy nations once went through these surges as well: the U.K., the U.S., and Germany in the late 19th century; and Japan in the early 20th century and again in the 1960s. Various developing countries have also seen periods of so-called “miracle” growth, such as Brazil and Mexico in the 1960s, and Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia since the 1970s, with China starting its own in the 1990s. A significant contributor to these periods of accelerated growth is a broad and powerful one-time build-out of physical infrastructure. This will be especially true in China, which has witnessed one of the greatest construction booms in history. The amount of infrastructure investment undertaken by China is breathtaking. For example, Shanghai had four crossings of the Huangpu River in 1980 and now boasts 17. Shanghai did not possess a subway system in 1980, and now it encompasses over 800 kilometers of lines, making it the world’s longest. China claims eight of the top ten longest subway systems globally, with a total extension of 9,700 kilometers across 45 cities. In comparison, the U.S. has 1,400 km of subway lines in 16 cities. Since 2000, China has constructed 38,000 km of high-speed train lines, more than tripling the amount built by Europe since 1980. China’s National Trunk Highway System, primarily built over the past 20 years, now totals 160,000 km, compared to the 70,000 km of the U.S. Interstate Highway System. China’s construction boom over the past decades can be measured by its share of the world’s production of basic building materials. For example, China consistently produced more than half of the total world cement output over the past decade, securing 56% in 2019. China also commands a similar share of the world’s steel output, reaching 57% in 2020, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). The chart below illustrates China’s increasing share of world steel output, surpassing the level the U.S. had at the end of World War II. Continued here

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