[ransomnote]

Of course I don't believe that Biden didn't know about/didn't want this diversion. I think it's interesting that Biden's handlers thought it was important to make it look like it was Congress's idea.

Because of Intel's involvement, I suspect it is back pay for the development and, going forward, mass production of a Big Brother computer chip to drive the Big Brother software developed by Microsoft. Microsoft's technology will, if implemented, put an end to anonymity on the Internet.

• "Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots"

  5/20/2024, 10:34:03 PM · by ransomnote · 50 replies

  X ^ | 5/20/2024 | @Tsarnick; Satya Nadella CEO, Microsoft; WSJ’s Joanna Stern

 

[Right_Wing_Madman]

But quietly, in a March spending bill, appropriators in Congress shifted $3.5 billion that the Commerce Department was hoping to use for those grants and pushed it into a separate Pentagon program called Secure Enclave

The wasn't enough space in this Politico article to mention the fact that the money was diverted because there were no takers for the free grant money. It was loaded with too many DIE requirements.

DEI killed the CHIPS Act
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4222844/posts

[ckilmer]

the US is going to need chips for national security purposes if China tries to take Taiwan.