What a Trade-Secrets Case Shows About U.S. Efforts to Counter China

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Micron Technology is the only U.S. company that makes a type of memory chip used to store data in everything from phones to laptops. Until recently, China did not have the capability to make these kinds of chips. So when some former Micron employees teamed up with a rival working with a Chinese government-owned company in Taiwan, U.S. prosecutors thought it would be a straightforward case of state-sponsored corporate theft. But last week, a federal judge in San Francisco disagreed. WSJ senior reporter Aruna Vishwanatha tells host Cordilia James why the verdict is being seen as a setback in efforts to contain Chinese corporate theft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, March 5th. I'm Cordelia James for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.0	Coming up on today's show, Clunky old software is causing a one and a half trillion dollar problem.
0:47.0	W.S.J. Tech columnist Christopher Mims tells us why technical debt is behind flight cancellations and security breaches, and what will happen if companies continue to ignore it.
0:57.5	And then, last week the US Justice Department was handed a crushing defeat in a case involving the trade secrets of
1:05.1	U.S. Chipmaker Micron Technology.
1:08.1	We'll find out why the verdict is being seen as a setback in efforts to contain Chinese
1:12.1	corporate theft. From W.S.J. Senior reporter, Aruna Vishwanatha.
1:17.0	But first, quick fixes, outdated systems, these kinds of security vulnerabilities give rise to something
1:27.1	known as technical debt, a silent killer that can result in big expensive problems for companies.
1:33.0	So how are Americans paying the price?
1:36.0	And what can businesses do about it?
1:38.0	W.S.J. Tech columnist Christopher Mims
1:40.0	spoke with their colleague Alex Osler.
1:42.0	Here's their conversation.
1:44.0	Christopher, give us an example of technical debt. In software, it's all the new code and
1:50.9	new architectures that developers pushed out the door to create something shiny and new
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