This Week in Tech 720

•  Baltimore City Government held for Ransom by Hackers Using NSA tools
•  Own a House? Hackers Probably have your Social Security Number.
•  PlayDate: The Gaming Handheld with a Crank
•  Is Huawei Spying on Us?
•  Intel Breaks the 5.0GHz Barrier
•  Chinese Owner of Grindr Leaked User Data to Employees
•  US Air Force Being Cyber Attacked by US Navy
•  AMD Brings Ray Tracing to Computex
•  GDPR: One Year Later
•  Assange Charged under the Espionage Act
•  AI Deepfake Brings Mona Lisa to Life
•  Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed Due to Disturbing GGI
•  SpaceX Launches Starlink Internet Satellites
•  The United States vs Lootboxes

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Links

• In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc - The New York Times
• Google shut out Baltimore officials using Gmail after ransomware attack
• Why the US Air Force Is Investigating a Cyber Attack From the US Navy - Slashdot
• First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records — Krebs on Security
• Behind Grindr's doomed hookup in China, a data misstep and scramble to make up
• ‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns
• A look at Plum Island, a highly restricted island off the coast of New York City
• Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues - The New York Times
• GDPR After One Year: Costs and Unintended Consequences
• GDPR’s first anniversary: A year of progress in privacy protection - Microsoft on the Issues
• Poland has now officially filed a complaint against the European Union's 'upload filter'
• Huawei’s US ban: A look at the hardware (and software) supply problems | Ars Technica
• Report: court documents, government and industry sources detail decades of Huawei's alleged IP theft
• Despite the name, rare earths just aren’t that rare
• Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward
• Google will work with Huawei for 90 days after US eases trade restrictions
• Panasonic 'suspends transactions' with Huawei after US ban
• Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business
• The "tech cold war", escalated by recent actions against Huawei, started over a decade ago
• Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies
• Trump’s latest explanation for the Huawei ban is unacceptably bad
• The Tech Cold War Has Begun
• New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011
• Intel Announces 8 Core i9-9900KS: Every Core at 5.0 GHz, All The Time
• The Playdate gaming handheld is a Game Boy-Model T mashup by Firewatch publisher Panic
• AMD partner leaks two mid-range Navi GPUs
• Mortal Kombat 11 Dev Diagnosed with PTSD Because of Game’s Violence