About a year after the notion was first tossed about, the push for the US government to ban a very popular brand of router is gaining momentum. Last December, the US Justice, Commerce, and Defense departments initiated an investigation into Chinese-owned TP-Link due to security concerns. Now, according to a report from The Washington Post, several government agencies are officially backing a proposal by the Commerce Department to ban the sale of all of the company's networking devices in the US.
Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Commerce Department was in talks with "several" quantum computing companies over equity stakes in those firms in return for federal funding. Specifically, the Journal said D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti were in discussions with the federal government about the matter. The report stated that Quantum Computing Inc. and the privately held Atom Computing were "considering similar arrangements."
"We're going to make it so that if you want to mine Bitcoin and you find the right place to do it, you can build your own power plant next to it," said Secretary Lutnick in the interview.