Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday announced this absolute bombshell, namely that he's now lifting "self-imposed restrictions" on the relationship between the United States and Taiwan.

Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions. Executive branch agencies should consider all "contact guidelines" regarding relations with Taiwan previously issued by the Department of State under authorities delegated to the Secretary of State to be null and void.

The US will no longer act in accord with viewing the island in context of a single sovereign China when it comes to relations with Taiwan.

Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and reliable partner of the United States, and yet for several decades the State Department has created complex internal restrictions to regulate our diplomats, servicemembers, and other officials’ interactions with their Taiwanese counterparts. The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing. No more.

Additionally, any and all sections of the Foreign Affairs Manual or Foreign Affairs Handbook that convey authorities or otherwise purport to regulate executive branch engagement with Taiwan via any entity other than the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) are also hereby voided. The executive branch‘s relations with Taiwan are to be handled by the non-profit AIT, as stipulated in the Taiwan Relations Act.

The United States government maintains relationships with unofficial partners around the world, and Taiwan is no exception. Our two democracies share common values of individual freedom, the rule of law, and a respect for human dignity. Today’s statement recognizes that the U.S.-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.

https://www.state.gov/lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship/

It is just one issue - it is extremely inaccurate thing. As depends on outside temperature, sweating and lot of other stuff.

Rumors from inside companies tell that developers had been asked to extremely hurry with ongoing plan of secure DNS, managing certificates and changing how dangerous sites are defined.

At first stage all main conservative sites will be tagged as dangerous for your computer, similar like sites with virus. So if you try to open them you'llsee big red page telling you why you don't want to see this site.

At second stage their certificates will be added to list of invalid certificates, Google will revoke all free issues certificates that had been provided by Let's Encrypt. Preparations are now 24/7 on this.

At third stage large sites will be required to use secure DNS, special DNS version where Google and Apple use only their servers and check each request, blocking anything they don't like or deem dangerous. This part had been integrated in browsers during last 6 months, infrastructure also is ready.

Strong internal rumors are that Apple wants to move to new version of their HEIF format. And establish this as paid licensed standard.

JPEG local viewing support will be fully absent both on Macs and iOS devices.

Yet you will be able to view or use JPEG image, to do so it will be sent to Apple Cloud servers and converted either to lossy or lossless HEIF, available option will depend on your payment plan.

Apple Cloud software also will be making image licensing check, faces and object recognition and inserting all this information into the meta fields.

Photographers will be able to pay Apple to add photos into license check database and assign special cost for each usage time.

If you try to use such licensed JPEG or HEIF image in Apple application or application available in Mac Store you will be present with special dialog to pay for one time or perceptual license use. Any applications that go around it and use images directly will be prohibited (on ARM platforms).

All new Apple chips will have special hardware making encoding and decoding of images, and special DRAM section where image data will reside while being fully protected from any access from any code including OS core level. Only special on-chip hardware coprocessor will have access. Hardware decoder will always add special encoded watermark with machine id into any image data that will be rendered to screen or given to application.

Feature is expected to become standard on all Apple devices since 2024. With Macbooks getting it around late 2022.