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China's use of sexpionage is a well-established intelligence tactic with recent, high-profile examples. So how did the world's most powerful AI executive fall for it? There's a specific mantra drilled into government workers, military officers, and intelligence personnel during counterintelligence briefings: "If she's a 10 and you're a 5, she's a spy!" Or, as the US Army's Counterintelligence Command posted on Valentine's Day: "It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out '10 + 5 = honeytrap.'" Jensen Huang surely doesn't live a typical life--he's a centibillionaire, the swashbuckling CEO of Nvidia, one of the hottest and most geopolitically consequential companies of the 21st century. In fact, it's hard to think of many companies in the world that would be a higher priority target for foreign intelligence agencies.

Microsoft, along with other companies and trade groups, is making a case that a ban on imports of Chinese optical transceivers could irreparably damage the U.S. edge over China in the AI race. WASHINGTON - Microsoft and other companies and trade groups have pressed the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to halt plans to bar imports from China of a key component used in artificial intelligence data centers, three people familiar with the situation said. In August, the Trump administration was reported to be seeking a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables at the speed of light within data centers. The concern is that they could be used by Beijing to steal data, install malware or disrupt service at U.S. data centers. Microsoft has 35 data centers under construction in the U.S. and another 134 planned, according to Cleanview, a market intelligence company that tracks data center development. It is one of a group of companies and trade groups making the case to the Trump administration that such a ban could irreparably damage the U.S. edge over China in the AI race by further slowing the data center rollout, the sources said.

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Hiring and unemployment figures for October will provide an update on a work force that has added jobs at a slow, steady pace for months. See more of our coverage in your search results. The latest reading on what has been a relatively stagnant labor market will come in the monthly jobs report to be released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employers have generally added workers at a slow but steady pace for months, though the headline payroll numbers have been volatile. The unemployment rate has stayed low, hovering in a narrow range just above 4 percent for the last two years. Layoffs are at historically low levels. Workers are reluctant to leave their jobs. "We really do just remain in this low-hire, low-fire environment," said Laura Ullrich, the director of economic research at Indeed, the job search website. The stability has allowed consumers to keep spending, buoying the economy overall. But for those without jobs, opportunities have been more limited. And even people who do have jobs have been losing leverage, as wage growth has slowed and inflation has eroded their spending power . Here's what to watch in the report: There have been some tentative signs that the labor market may be perking up. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey this week showed that the quits rate rose in September, a sign that workers may feel more confident in their ability to get new jobs.

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The influential Center for Renewing America says that "neo-Marxist progressives and anti-Western Muslims" can't sincerely swear to protect the Constitution--and shouldn't be allowed to assume office. With polls indicating that the Democrats are poised to win big in the midterm elections, the Trump administration is already attempting to mount legal challenges in certain races and cast doubt on the results. A post published last month by the Center for Renewing America, an influential right-wing think tank, suggests a more radical strategy, asserting that a number of Democrats could be prevented from holding office even if they win their elections. The post, titled, "Can Congress Seat a Member-Elect Who Vows to Destroy our Constitution?" The post, in effect, claims that Muslim and progressive candidates don't have to be legally accepted into their elected positions. "This is another attempt to contort and twist basic norms that have never been used this way for their own partisan purposes," says Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University's School of Law.

So far, Department of Justice-led efforts to sow chaos, even as Americans are already voting, have fallen flat. Polls are looking pretty bleak for Republicans --and the Trump administration's various attempts to interfere with the elections haven't been too successful either. In recent weeks, the Department of Justice, helmed by Attorney General Todd Blanche, a proponent of conspiracy theories about widespread noncitizen voting in the 2020 election, has pulled out all the stops to sow doubt in voters' minds about the security and validity of the electoral process. To do this, the DOJ has spent the last year demanding unredacted voter rolls, issuing executive orders to wrest control of elections from states, raiding election offices, proposing new laws to disenfranchise millions of citizens, and claiming that noncitizens were voting en masse across the country. There have also been escalating threats by the DOJ against election officials. On Thursday, the DOJ sent letters to election officials in all 50 states warning them that they would pursue criminal action if they failed to preserve election records for 22 days.