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RISC-V Foundation escapes to Switzerland
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Thursday, 28 November 2019 10:31

RISC-V Foundation escapes to Switzerland


Avoiding authoritarian US trade embargos

The RISC-V Foundation, which sets standards for the open-sourced CPU architecture and controls who can use the RISC-V trademark on products, says it is escaping the shackles of the Trump regime and escaping to Switzerland. It is not clear if a motorcycle is involved.

Switzerland’s voting full of holes
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Friday, 22 February 2019 11:53

Switzerland’s voting full of holes


If only there were a cheesy metaphor, we could use here

Switzerland made headlines this month for the transparency of its internet voting system when it launched a fondue of public penetration tests and bug bounty programme to test the resiliency of the system to attack.

Big Content declares war on the Swiss
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Monday, 12 November 2018 12:58

Big Content declares war on the Swiss


You are all pirates

It seems that Swiss neutrality will not protect it from Big Content lobby groups which are trying to drag the country into a conflict with the United States.

Kaspersky starts packing its bags
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Wednesday, 16 May 2018 13:49

Kaspersky starts packing its bags


Moving to Switzerland

In a move to dispel acusations that it is a pawn in President Vladimir Putin's spy games. security outfit  Kaspersky is moving a number of "core processes" from Russia to Switzerland.

Switzerland shuts down fake cryptocurrency
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:34

Switzerland shuts down fake cryptocurrency


In the good old days all you had to worry about was Nazi gold


Switzerland’s financial watchdog FINMA has closed down what it said was the provider of "a fake" cryptocurrency and is investigating around a dozen other similar "fraud" cases.

Monday, 24 September 2012 09:45

Swiss elect pirate for Mayor

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Shiver me timbers

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Turning it over to Wikileaks
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Court guts P2P  surveillance business