Bloomberg:
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg: Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars since its inception in 2022 and attracted hundreds of proposals from scientists around the world, including those at top US universities that have banned their researchers from working with the company, according to documents and people familiar with the matter.

WaPo: Seiichi Morimura, a Japanese writer who helped force a reckoning upon his country with his 1981 exposé of Unit 731, a secret biological warfare branch of the Imperial Army that subjected thousands of people in occupied China to sadistic medical experiments during World War… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… WaPo: At a time when Japanese textbooks often minimized atrocities committed by Japan during the war, Mr. Morimura interviewed dozens of veterans of Unit 731 and documented in harrowing detail the conduct of the operation, which was established in 1938 near the Chinese city of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

WSJ: China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the U.S., according to U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence. WSJ: Officials familiar with the matter said that China has agreed to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billion dollars to allow it to build the eavesdropping station, and that the two countries had reached an agreement in principle.

Bloomberg: Military interception maneuvers by Chinese ships and planes suggest a “growing aggressiveness” from Beijing and risk an accident that could result in injury, the White House said Monday.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg: “It won’t be long before somebody gets hurt,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House. “That’s the concern with these unsafe and unprofessional intercepts. They can lead to misunderstandings, they can lead to miscalculations.”

Yonhap: North Korea launched a ballistic missile to waters off its eastern coast, South Korea military says Air raid sirens went off at Ulleung county in South Korea, South Korea's YTN TV news station says (its a district in southeastern region of South Korea)

Bloomberg: Justice Clarence Thomas said he doesn’t “have a clue” what diversity means as the Supreme Court heard argument Monday over eliminating race in college admissions.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg: Thomas, the court’s second Black justice and a longtime affirmative action critic, said he didn’t “put much stock” in North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park’s argument “because I’ve heard similar arguments in favor of segregation too.”

Bloomberg: Kim Jong Un said he launched a new ballistic missile and simulated “tactical” nuclear strikes during recent military drills, in the latest sign that North Korea is preparing for its first atomic test in five years. 

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg: Kim described a series of exercises since Sept. 25, which included the first missile fired over Japan in five years, as a “severe warning” to the US and its allies, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Monday.

Yonhap: North Korean leader Kim Kong Un directed traininh for the country's tactical nuclear weapons force (First time in nearly a month that Kim showed up in the state media reports doing something)

Yonhap: North Korea fired a ballistic missile, South Korea says (It is nearly 2am in Korea so this is unusual)

Jaylen Brown 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 sorry is that enough 🔥

Bloomberg: North Korea Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered all cities to be put under lockdown after the state for the first time Thursday said it has Covid-19 in its borders.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (updates should come)

Tatum wants to close Smart makes something out of that busted play and that should be it

WSJ: Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich, Ukrainian Peace Negotiators Suffer Symptoms of Suspected Poisoning WSJ: Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian peace negotiators suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning after a meeting in Kyiv earlier this month, people familiar with the matter said.

Uh...that was scripted right It kind of didn't feel like it because the feed I had just lost sound for a while and you could see Will Smith yelling things

Bloomberg: Tesla Inc. plans to suspend production at its Shanghai plant for at least one day as the local government intensifies Covid restrictions after a surge in cases in the city, people familiar with the matter said. 

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (Will there be outrage voiced by certain Twitter celebrity executive?)

Just turned on F1 to see a wreck is about to mess things up Guess that should help the Mercedes cars

Bloomberg: U.S. President Joe Biden called for the ouster of Vladimir Putin, an unscripted and revealing aside that risks emboldening an already erratic and paranoid Russian leader who ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg: Biden closed his remarks in Warsaw with an eyebrow-raising comment: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

That inboudns play off the Purdue timeout encapsulates just how bad coaching can be in college basketball. What did they spend that entire timeout discussing? They needed a quick basket, 2 or 3. Instead a lot of aimless dribbling and passign for a mediocre 3-point look. They got lucky and got the offensive rebound and converted. But burned a lot of time.