Ep. 25 - The Chinese Robot Dogs the US Just Banned | Everyone Knows

A Chinese robot dog sold to US universities shipped with a hidden doorbuilt in. Our government did not find it. Outside researchers did.

Chinese Robots, Boeing Signs Its Own Planes Again | EveryoneKnows Ep. 25

This week the government shut off imports of Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots and called them a national security risk. Ten days after handing Boeing back the authority to sign off its own airplanes, the FAA ordered 453 of them inspected. Brian Bullock walks through both, and why thesame hole runs through all of it.

Three parts. All of them matter.

FIRST: The robot ban. Researchers pulled apart a Unitree robot dog and found a service the buyer was never told about. It started itself every time the machine powered on and opened a tunnel to a cloud service in China. Live camera, live movement, full remote control from anywhere on Earth. The government keeps a public database of security flaws and this one is in it, classified as hidden functionality. The units were found running inside MIT, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Waterloo. Six months later a second way in turned up over Bluetooth, no key needed, spreading machine to machine. Brian breaks down why the ban is not a win, and what China built last month that export controls cannot touch.

SECOND: Boeing and the FAA. On July 17 the FAA gave Boeing back the authority to sign off its own airplanes, after eight months reviewing its production quality. On July 27 it proposed an order on 453 737 MAX jets, because the passenger seats might not be attached to the floor. The pin that locks a seat into the track was never dropped. More than 80,000 seats across the fleet. Eighty five dollars to inspect one. And the FAA did not find this. Boeing did, and wrote it up in December, seven and a half months before theorder came out, inside the same window the FAA was grading them. Brian spent years as a quality control inspector in aerospace. He explains how a step like that gets skipped and signed off anyway.

THIRD: Something 750 million light years away outshone an entire galaxy for months, and not one human being noticed. A piece of software did. Then it turned out to be somewhere nothing like it had ever been seen. Brian gets into who wrote that program, what it was built to look for, and the thing it will never flag no matter how long it runs on. Nothing to do with Washington. Everything to do with the other two.

A straight read on the stories that matter, without the theatrics or the party line. Who benefits, who gets hurt, why now, what happens next.

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