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TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dresden, Germany, its first European plant; the EU approves Germany's ~€5B subsidy for the project (Kamil Kowalcze/Bloomberg)

TSMC breaks ground on its €10B chip fab in Dr...

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US labor and environmental groups submit comments to the Commerce Department saying draft health and environmental assessments for new chip factories fall short (Justine Calma/The Verge)

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Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as Mike Lynch over Autonomy's sale, died after a road accident, per his lawyer, days before Lynch went missing (Reuters)

Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges as...

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Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Copilot, letting developers test AI models in GitHub, open-source AI models, working within Microsoft, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on AI, GitHub Co...

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Business groups including Asia Internet Coalition, which includes Amazon, Google, and Meta, criticize Hong Kong's new cyber rules, calling them "unprecedented" (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Business groups including Asia Internet Coalition,...

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Sources: Apple plans to make iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max in India for the first time as Foxconn rushes to produce the high-end models closer to the global debut (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to make iPhone 16 Pro and Pro...

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PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% share of 14.4B UPI transactions in July; PhonePe led with 5.9B transactions, Google Pay 5.3B, and Paytm 1.1B (Digbijay Mishra/The Economic Times)

PhonePe and Google Pay accounted for over 85% shar...

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Cisco Talos: eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by attackers to record video/sound from a user's device, log user input, and more (Connor Jones/The Register)

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Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on US fraud charges in June, is among six missing after a yacht sank off Sicily, according to Italian authorities (Associated Press)

Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on U...

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Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)

Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth S...

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The FBI and US intelligence agencies say they are "confident" that Iran was responsible for recent attempted hacks into the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

The FBI and US intelligence agencies say they are ...

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Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.2B, vs. $2.16B est., FY 2025 revenue guidance above est., and increases its share buyback by $500M to $1B (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY t...

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Gemini Live is not too useful as a premium feature as it lacks many integrations that text-based Gemini supports and cannot yet interpret images or video (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Gemini Live is not too useful as a premium feature...

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University professors still face the seemingly impossible task of detecting AI-fueled cheating, which continues unabated on both small and large assignments (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

University professors still face the seemingly imp...

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A week after data broker NPD confirmed a breach, which reportedly impacted 272M+ people, a review of NPD property Records Check shows exposed admin credentials (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

A week after data broker NPD confirmed a breach, w...

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Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users log in to listen to podcasts, view the Up Next queue and library, and browse new shows, at podcasts.apple.com (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple debuts a web app for Podcasts, letting users...

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Google will end the Google Play Security Reward Program, introduced in 2017 to incentivize researchers to find bugs in popular Android apps, on August 31 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Google will end the Google Play Security Reward Pr...

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Fabric Cryptography, a startup working on a "verifiable processing unit" chip for cryptography, raised a $33M Series A co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx (Bradley Keoun/CoinDesk)

Fabric Cryptography, a startup working on a "verif...

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