Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Chips and blocks—how TSMC mastered the geopolitics of chipmaking (The Economist)
- There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain (Wired)
- India police visit Twitter offices after tweet row (The Financial Times)
- ‘Rogue’ Commerce unit scanned social media for Census disinformation (The Verge)
- Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (The New York Times)
- Germany gives greenlight to driverless vehicles on public roads (TechCrunch)
- UK Space Agency, Rolls Royce Tie Up To Test Nuclear Technology To Power Spacecraft (Gadgets 360)
- £166 million cash injection for green technology and 60,000 UK jobs (UK Government)
- Government Agencies Should Use Science, Data and Technology to Reopen America Safely (NextGov)
Some light reading- Animal Farm, by George Orwell