On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Google+ the social network from Google which has Google users scrambling for invites has run into it's first privacy issue. Basically the social network works on the concept of circles, so you can create circles which include friends, relatives and co-workers to name a few. You can post an update to whichever circle you desire and therefore you can keep your updates private and share only among you pre-approved circle. Everything works fine and your circle is happy, no flaws. Wrong there has been a flaw discovered and it is huge, it is a problem. Once you update your status people in your circle can re-port you update to whoever you want. This is big and it surely is a problem. This throws all the privacy you want to maintain out of the window.
This loophole was first spotted by the Financial Times. For now, Google+ users can disable reposting by clicking on a button that appears as soon as you publish a post, but there is no way to universally shut off the feature.
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