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China’s Top Cybersecurity Firms Hit by Mounting Military Procurement Bans

China’s military procurement system has suspended or permanently barred more than a dozen of the country’s leading cybersecurity vendors since 2024, according to new research from threat intelligence group Natto Thoughts.

The findings, based on public notices from the military procurement network cross-referenced with corporate disclosures and Chinese media reports, identify at least 21 enforcement actions between 2021 and 2026 tied to contract bidding misconduct rather than product or technical failures.

The penalties fall under a three-tier system used by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA): a private warning list for early-stage concerns, a suspension list for confirmed but limited violations, and a public blacklist reserved for serious offenses that can carry lifetime bans extending to affiliated companies and executives.

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One example is Beijing TopSec Network Security, an indirect subsidiary of TopSec Technologies Group. In 2024, the company was...

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 30, #675

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a real challenge, but also fun. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Helps you identify a team. Green group hint: Short for a hoops team.

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Onyx Security, whose platform enables enterprises to deploy AI agents securely, raised a $113M Series B led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $153M

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Filmmaking Beyond the ‘Slop’ of Generative AI

For the better part of two years, the dominant conversation around AI-generated imagery has been summed up in a single derogatory word: slop. It has become a catch-all term used to describe uncanny, mindless, visually assaulting images and videos generated by LLMs from user prompts and published promptly online and

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 30 #879

Today’s Strands puzzle is a fun one, with an interesting theme and fairly easy-to-find clues. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: Trade names. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Skilled workers. Clue

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 30, #675

Onyx Security, whose platform enables enterprises to deploy AI agents securely, raised a $113M Series B led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $153M

Filmmaking Beyond the ‘Slop’ of Generative AI

Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 30 #879