Geoffrey Cain
@geoffrey_cain
Books: THE PERFECT POLICE STATE, SAMSUNG RISING. Tech Integrity Project. "Fearless, yes, and a good one."—President Zelensky
Most of the great novelists of the 19th and first half of the 20th century (Dickens, Trollope, Balzac, Mann) wrote about business at some point. Why have today's novelists forsaken the board room for anywhere else? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
The coldest winter I ever spent was
San Francisco is having its coldest summer since 1982
The Veterans Affairs Dept. recently signed a $4.7B Microsoft deal through Dell. Given Microsoft's recent admission of engineers in China accessing Pentagon data, shouldn't we be auditing ALL federal Microsoft contracts? How many other agencies are exposed?
Stunning @ProPublica investigation: Microsoft uses Chinese engineers to maintain Pentagon systems without much of a check in place. "Digital escorts" -- ex-military with little coding experience -- are supposed to guard against spying. But they can't keep up with foreign…
The Pentagon is looking into reports that engineers in China were given access by Microsoft to sensitive military data. Heads are rolling.
Spot on Senator. Agree fully. Our team is already looking into this ASAP. Foreign engineers — from any country, including of course China — should NEVER be allowed to maintain or access DoD systems.
Wow. Scheffler reflects on the fleeting euphoria and what it really means, to him, to win.
Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard.
When Apple wanted to bring back manufacturing to the US, it had to rely on Chinese engineers, a reversal of the previous pattern of Apple sending engineers to China. One of my favorite parts of @PatrickMcGee_’s new book Apple in China:
We’re closer to the year 2050 than we are to the release of the iMac.