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Engineers keep finding a secret kill switch in Chinese buses

Across Europe and beyond, engineers keep opening the digital guts of imported Chinese buses and finding the same unnerving feature: a hidden way to shut vehicles down from afar. What began as a quiet ...
ExtremeTech

TSMC's Lithography Machines Have a Remote Kill Switch in Case China Invades

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HotHardware

NVIDIA Slams Backdoor In Scathing Dismissal Of AI Chip Kill Switches

NVIDIA is emphatically putting to rest the notion that it supports any industry push to equip its AI chips with backdoors or remote kill switches. In a new blog post titled "No Backdoors. No Kill ...
Liliputing

Subsidized netbooks may come with remote kill switch

A growing number of 3G wireless providers including AT&T and Verizon in the US and Orange, Vodafone, and Carphone Warehouse in Europe are beginning to offer subsidized netbooks to customers who sign ...