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...
Facebook have announced something called the Antivirus marketplace or A V Marketplace, brought to you by the Facebook security team. Facebook have tied up with key Antivirus partners - McAfee, Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton AntiVirus, Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition and Trend Micro internet security for PCs and Macs. They hope to bring greater security to Facebook's over 900 million users. These Antivirus software can be downloaded to use free or 6 months or a year depending on what security system you choose to download. Facebook have said that one of the key trade-offs from this entire deal is the sharing of blacklisted URLs between the security partners and themselves. What this means is that - millions of links are being shared on Facebook everyday. Many of these links are actually malicious and are from spammers who are out to get you. There are 1000's of scams being launched constantly on Facebook everyday with hackers and spammers trying to rob and steal yo...