Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of the island’s semiconductor capacity to U.S. — production on Taiwan expected to increase in lockstep with increases in U.S.-based production

Taiwan authorities have no problems with TSMC investing in the U.S. as long the bulk of its fabs and leading-edge process technologies remain in Taiwan.
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Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally

Cursor, an AI-assisted development environment, essentially an IDE, is being used by Nvidia internally to boost coding efficiency. Cursor says the Green Team’s internal code commits have tripled since its implementation wh…

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Nvidia says it didn’t use pirated books to train its AI models — company asking for Anna’s Archive suit to be dismissed

Nvidia is pushing back against claims that it trained AI models on pirated books, telling a federal court that alleged contact with Anna’s Archive doesn’t amount to proof of copyright infringement.
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20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘Starlink’s worst nightmare’ by country’s media — portable 5-ton device can deliver full-minute destructive bursts

Scientists in China have developed an incredibly powerful microwave weapon capable of disrupting or damaging low-Earth orbit satellites.
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Crypto disaster sends $44 billion in bitcoins to random users — exchange accidentally makes funds vanish thanks to a typo

Only 0.3% of cryptocurrency exchange transaction clients got rich as a result of a major error.

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Nitrogen ransomware programmers lock themselves out of a payment — key management bug encrypts victims’ data forever

Bug in Nitrogen ransomware locks victims’ data way forever

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Security researcher says AMD auto-updater downloads software insecurely, enabling remote code execution — company rep reportedly said man-in-the-middle attacks are “out of scope,” ignored bug

AMD auto-update delivers software insecurely, company says MITM attacks are “out of scope”

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Semiconductor industry on track to hit $1 trillion in sales in 2026, SIA predicts — bumper forecast follows $791.7 billion haul for 2025

After recording a $791.7 billion revenue in 2025, the semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales in 2026.
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China broadens its crackdown on cryptocurrencies — expands ban to include real-world asset tokenization, crypto ads, and providing network traffic for crypto activities

The central government is closing loopholes that allowed some of its citizens to use cryptocurrencies despite the 2021 ban.
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Big Tech stocks take a $1 trillion tumble as projected AI spending continues to outweigh revenue — investors are antsy about long-term planning becoming never-ending spending

Big Tech stocks take a $1 trillion tumble as projected AI spending continues outweighing revenue

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