chinese hackers infiltrated 8 major U.S. ISPs to spy on public officials, and it's so severe the intruders are still happily rooting around in the networks yet it's getting 4% of the press attention that all the hyperventilation over TikTok received [White House official: 8 US tel...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/us-telecom-providers-chinese-hack/index.html )

remember when the entire U.S. tech press spent 20 straight years propping up Elon Musk's supergenius engineer mythology and if you pointed out he was an opportunistic fraud they'd all look at you like you'd grown an extra head? good times