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Nearly nine million customers of the Manchester Airports Group are waking up to some unsettling news this weekend. A cyberattack on the UK's largest airport owner exposed email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations, and postcodes. No payment data was taken, but that's cold comfort for nearly nine million people now wondering how their information will be used.
Across the Atlantic, Intel is offering a rare piece of good news in the semiconductor race. The company's fourteen-A fabrication process, its most advanced yet, is shedding defects faster than engineers projected. Intel's chief financial officer told a Deutsche Bank conference this week that the company hasn't seen performance like this since the twenty-two nanometer era, and external customers are already asking about production volumes.
And in the world of personal data rights, a Wired investigation found that when California residents exercised their legal right to access the data companies hold on them, most got deletion notices instead of actual answers. The right exists on paper, but in practice, the system appears designed to wear you down before you ever see what's been collected.
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