On Dec. 19, William Willis covered Microsoft’s plan to enact its EU data boundary plan in January of next year, the US adding 36 Chinese tech companies to a trade blacklist and Meta, AWS, Microsoft and TomTom’s joint mapping initiative. He also talked about Sony’s plans to build a smartphone image sensor factory in Japan. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, DevOps.com and Container Journal, which covered CrowdStrike’s addition of an attack surface management module, Salesforce’s launch of a low-code DevOps platform and the learning curve of a new Kubernetes cluster.