TNB Tech Minute: Secret Service Stops Telecom Threat Ahead of U.N. General Assembly
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Get out of the headlines and into real conversations happening inside global organizations with the Executive Insights podcast. |
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| 0:16.8 | Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, September 23rd. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:24.9 | The U.S. Secret Service says it dismantled a network of electronic devices throughout the New York |
| 0:29.9 | tri-state area that was capable of carrying out telecommunication threats, like shutting down |
| 0:35.5 | cell services ahead of the UN General Assembly this |
| 0:38.6 | week. The agency said the network included 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards that investigators |
| 0:45.0 | uncovered at multiple sites. The Secret Service said early analysis shows that the devices have |
| 0:50.2 | communicated with nation-state threat actors, but it's still looking into who's responsible |
| 0:55.0 | and what their intentions were. Elsewhere, ASM International cut its revenue forecasts for the |
| 1:00.9 | year due to lower-than-expected demand for semiconductor-making equipment. While demand for smaller, |
| 1:06.3 | more efficient chips to power AI is booming, the company said appetite for logic and foundry orders, |
| 1:11.6 | from customers who want to make integrated circuits that power smartphones, computers, and other |
| 1:15.6 | devices, has declined as of late. And Google has entered the final stretch of an antitrust case |
| 1:21.7 | targeting the company's digital advertising monopoly. A second phase of trial began yesterday, |
| 1:27.1 | with arguments over what remedies the |
| 1:28.9 | U.S. District Judge overseeing the case should order to stimulate more competition in the market. |
| 1:34.4 | The Justice Department has asked the judge to order Google to divest its exchange that connects |
| 1:39.5 | buyers and sellers of ads, while Google argues that would be a radical solution that's never been |
| 1:44.7 | imposed on a company facing similar claims. That's your TNB Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon |
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