⚓ While most damage done to #SubseaCables is accidental, physical attacks are increasing. How to protect the "soft underbelly of the world economy" ? Questions as to how to detect and deter such attacks reveal the current judicial gaps in international treaties. www.csis.org/analysis/pro...

🛰️ "#Starlink’s ability to provide connectivity in conflict zones has turned Elon Musk into a geopolitical force." After its introduction in #Ukraine🇺🇦 in 2022, backed up by the US government, the satellite network recently came into the spotlight in #Iran🇮🇷 and #Venezuela🇻🇪. time.com/7345047/star...

A look back on #AIchips in 2025⌛from the market side : ⚔️ From production to distribution and appliance, the industry proved vulnerable to increasingly conflictual #geopolitics. A target of national ambitions and capital value🪙 www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/ai-chip...

🇫🇷 Les cyberattaques augmentent en France. Mairies et hôpitaux sont souvent visés. 🇬🇧 Cyberattacks are increasing in France, often hitting hospitals and towns. www.franceinfo.fr/internet/sec...

🇹🇼 - 🇨🇳 Considering the recent escalation in Taiwan-China tensions, here’s a reminder: 🛡️ "The Silicon Shield" : Taiwan’s chip dominance is often seen as a deterrent to Chinese aggression because the global economy would suffer without its semiconductors. asiatimes.com/2025/10/the-...

🇨🇳 — 🇺🇸 Despite accusing China of unfair practices in semiconductors, the US has delayed new tariffs until mid-2027, preserving a fragile truce in the ongoing chip trade war. Tech dominance is as much about diplomacy and timing as it is about market share. www.ft.com/content/a127...

🇯🇵 With Rapidus, Japan is making chip sovereignty a strategic priority, aiming to challenge TSMC and Samsung in semi manufacturing. In an AI-driven, geopolitically tense world, every major economy needs its own advanced chip capabilities for long-term resilience. asiatimes.com/2025/12/japa...

🇹🇼 Taiwan: from semiconductor industry to geopolitics. TSMC’s most advanced chipmaking know-how is now treated as a national security asset. This investigation shows how semiconductors have moved from factories into the core of global power politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...

🇰🇷 Heavy subsidies, tax breaks, and exports concentrated in semiconductors: South Korea’s growth model is increasingly tied to the chip cycle itself. Sometimes, a lack of diversification in high-tech industry control becomes a major economic vulnerability. thediplomat.com/2025/11/sout...

MP Materials, seule mine de terres rares active aux États-Unis, voit son chiffre d’affaires exploser (+84 %) grâce à une production record de NdPr. Apple et le Pentagone investissent pour renforcer l’indépendance face à la Chine. www.latribune.fr/economie/int...

FR- L’essor de l’IA fait grimper les prix de la RAM : la demande des data centers et des puces mémoire avancées crée des tensions sur l’offre. ENG- AI boom is driving RAM prices up as data centers and advanced memory chips strain global supply. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rare earths are essential for smartphones, laptops, electric motors, robotics and chip manufacturing. 🇨🇳 China holds the largest known rare earth reserves and dominates mining and refining, making it the world’s leading exporter. www.statista.com/chart/33754/...

🇨🇳 - 🇺🇸 Despite Trump’s approval, Beijing — pursuing its self-sufficiency goals — is considering restrictions on H200 imports. H200 is one of Nvidia's most advanced AI chips, and companies like Tencent and Alibaba could benefit from it. www.ft.com/content/c4e8...

"Apartheid numérique" : seuls 16% des pays possèdent l'infrastructure pour développer l'IA. 🌍 Selon ce rapport d'Oxford, le fossé technologique devient irréversible entre les puissances du cloud et le reste du monde. 🎧 L'analyse : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

🇫🇷 La pénurie mondiale de semi-conducteurs révèle la dépendance aux chaînes de production asiatiques et fragilise l’industrie numérique. 🇬🇧 The global chip shortage exposes dependence on Asian supply chains and weakens the digital industry. 🔗 www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/...

💣📻 : l'histoire du C.L.O.DO., mystérieux groupe qui sabotait des infrastructures informatiques, en France, dans les années 80. Parmi les peurs de l'époque: la déshumanisation administrative, l'omniprésence de la surveillance, et la dépendance du pays à une poignée d'infrastructures. urlr.me/Ebt4Jh

Europe is shifting from regulating technology to building it. Whether it can do so without sacrificing the values it seeks to protect will shape the global digital order, write Nicole Manger and Vidisha Mishra.

The #semiconductor industry's lead by fabless companies (e.NVIDIA) who design chips but leave their manufacturing to foundries (e.TSMC). Though it failed to attract such actors, Europe still counts the Dutch ASML, provider of lithographic printers used in chip making, except for China.

📡 Le Humboldt Cable — un câble sous-marin de 14 800 km reliant Valparaíso à Sydney. Attendu pour 2027, il fait du Chili un hub numérique et pourrait transformer la connectivité régionale. www.courrierinternational.com/article/econ...

Bulle financière autour de l’IA, manque structurel de production militaire. L’Europe révèle ses fragilités industrielles : manque de compétences, chaînes de production brisées, insuffisance de matériel. www.iris-france.org/entre-bulle-...

🇫🇷 🎥 Le Dessous des Cartes (Arte) montre comment les réseaux sociaux deviennent des outils de puissance. 🇬🇧 🎥 ARTE’s Le Dessous des Cartes shows how social media become tools of power. 🔗 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWeksJQQRyU](www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWek...)

TSMC technology leak : Taiwan indicts Tokyo Electron’s local unit and three engineers — one former TSMC employee now at Tokyo Electron and two current TSMC engineers — for allegedly failing to prevent leaks of TSMC’s 2nm chip technology trade secrets. focustaiwan.tw/business/202...

In 2022, Pakistan🇵🇰 suffered from six massive internet blackouts due to #SubmarineCables cuts, highlighting the lack of #resilience of its networks. This study underlines "the power asymmetry between content platforms, operators, and regulators" regarding infrastructure planning. urlr.me/pTGJUV

Consequences of AI demands : 🇫🇷 - Croissance de Taiwan de +8,2% au troisième trimestre. L'estimation sur l'ensemble de l'année devrait atteindre +7,37% 🇬🇧 - Taiwan's growth at +8.2% in the third quarter. The estimate for the whole year is expected to reach +7.37% www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec...

Géopolitique du numérique » d’Ophélie Coelho : un essai qui montre comment les Big Tech, via data centers, câbles sous-marins et satellites, transforment Internet en instrument de puissance et posent la question de notre souveraineté numérique. editionsatelier.com/boutique/acc...

🇫🇷 🎥 Le Dessous des Cartes (Arte) analyse comment l’IA redéfinit les rapports de puissance et les enjeux de souveraineté. 🇬🇧 🎥 ARTE’s Le Dessous des Cartes shows how AI reshapes power dynamics and digital sovereignty. 🔗 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zcn88-nq14](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zcn...)

🇨🇳 - 🇯🇵 Tensions in Asia “China must resolutely hit back,” said China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, referring to what Beijing sees as a potential Japanese military threat regarding Taiwan. What would become of the global tech industry if a war broke out over Taiwan ? www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...

🇺🇸 - 🇨🇳 Chip war : More US chipmakers will no longer be allowed to purchase from Chinese companies under a new bill connected to the Chip Act (federal statute enacted to strengthen U.S. semiconductor production through federal subsidies). manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/hi-...

The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act could offer a useful framework for Europeans and Gulf partners to work together, write @cinziabianco.bsky.social and Herman Quarles @ecfrmena.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3MdxkEk

🇫🇷 🎥 Le Dessous des Cartes (Arte) analyse la course mondiale à l’IA entre États-Unis et Chine : innovation, puissance militaire et souveraineté numérique. 🇬🇧 🎥 ARTE’s Le Dessous des Cartes explores the US–China AI race and its strategic stakes. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQl...

Taiwan is tightening export controls on dual-use (civilian-military) technologies from quantum computing to advanced semiconductors. This comes just one day after a Chinese drone was detected this Monday near a southern island close to Taiwan. www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

FR- L’ère de l’IA exige des data centers plus efficients : capacité, interconnexions et régulation deviennent critiques. ENG- The AI era needs reinvented data centers and a rewired grid: capacity, connectivity and smart policy are now essential. www.newsweek.com/powering-the...

An identity crisis for 🇪🇺 ? After a rather failed attempt to attract (US) chips manufacturers, the UE is struggling to find its place in the supply chain and reckoning with the new weapons of the technological competition, like export controls, "which aren't yet part of Brussels' repertoire."

Le sommet sur la souveraineté numérique européenne a lieu aujourd’hui 18/11 à Berlin. 800 européens seront présents 🇪🇺 : représentants des institutions, d’entreprises, la société civile et la commission européenne. Les sujets traités seront : compétitivité, souveraineté et innovation européenne. 🐭

#ShowDontTell 👀 Here's some interactive maps of the major internet infrastructures around the globe🗺️⤵️ If you're often at a loss as to the details of the internet, worry no more, you can visualize it ! First here's a quick run through of Internet's working and history : urlr.me/JW9eYC

🇫🇷 Les États-Unis renforcent leur autonomie numérique : l’Arizona devient un hub clé pour les semi-conducteurs. 🇬🇧The US is boosting digital autonomy as Arizona becomes a key semiconductor hub. A strategic move for tech sovereignty. markets.financialcontent.com/wral/article...

Zoom : 🇺🇸 data-centers and who pays for them ? Aside the environmental cost, data-centers have a financial cost too. In the USA questions arise about those informational hubs and their local effects, through their actual tax incomes or their energy demands. ⤵️ First where are those data-centers ?

🇫🇷 Ténèze montre comment Israël a bâti une puissance cyber fondée sur l’alliance du civil et du militaire. 🇬🇧 Israel’s cyberpower stems from tight civil-military cooperation. 📚 Revue Défense Nationale (2015) 🔗 shs.cairn.info/revue-defens...

🇫🇷 O. Coelho révèle comment les GAFAM bâtissent un impérialisme numérique fondé sur dépendance et puissance technologique. 🇬🇧 O. Coelho shows how GAFAMs build a digital imperialism rooted in dependence and tech power. 📚 Ouvrage de référence disponible sur Cairn: 🔗 shs.cairn.info/geopolitique...

This video is really important. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o... It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition. @katecrawford.bsky.social

🇺🇸/🇨🇳 AI in geoeconomics poses a choice between "a divided future [techno-nationalism] and one where rivals, however reluctantly, agree on the rules of engagement for this transformative technology." See Adora Yin's article on Sputnik-Deep Seek analogy : ajosr.org/wp-content/u...

"The EU AI Act offers a vital framework for ensuring the safe and ethical use of AI in health care but its effectiveness depends on balanced implementation amid geopolitical uncertainty" On AI technologies, regulations and healthcare in the EU : ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e75527/