10月13日，布伦丹·卡尔（Brendan Carr）领导的美国联邦通信委员会赋予了自己一项新权力——它可以屏蔽任何包含被列入国家安全潜在威胁名单上的公司所制造的计算机芯片的小工具。今天，美国联邦通信委员会声称，它正在首次行使这一权力，屏蔽了两款小工具，因为它们包含“外国监控芯片”。
On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC gave itself a new power - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip made by any company on its list of potential threats to national security. Today, it's exercising that power for the first time, blocking two gadgets because they contain "foreign surveillance chips," the FCC claims.
该机构没有透露被屏蔽的具体是哪些小工具，也没有立即回应我们的置评请求，但它确实点名了这枚“监控芯片”：它是海思（HiVision）Hi3516CV610超高清智能视觉系统级芯片（SoC），这是一种能将原始摄像头传感器转化为家用安防摄像头、行车记录仪或类似设备的芯片。它经常……
The agency doesn't say which specific gadgets it blocked, and it didn't immediately respond to our request for comment, but it does name the "surveillance chip": it's a HiVision Hi3516CV610 UHD Smart Vision SoC, a chip that turns a raw camera sensor into a home security camera, a dashcam, or the like. It's often s …