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Security researchers have found a troubling new attack vector targeting Fortune five hundred companies. By embedding malicious instructions inside so-called llms dot txt files, the files businesses use to guide AI agents around their websites, attackers can trick those agents into executing arbitrary code. It's a sharp reminder that when data starts behaving like code, the attack surface grows in ways most security teams haven't caught up with yet.
Shifting to the semiconductor race, a UBS analyst is putting China's homegrown lithography capability roughly where ASML stood back in two thousand four. That's a significant gap, though analysts note Chinese chipmakers could begin deploying immersion systems at scale within two to five years. Western export controls are buying time, but the clock is ticking.
And in government procurement, Northern Ireland's Education Authority is extending its contract with Fujitsu by fifteen million pounds, pushing the total ceiling to fifty five point four million, without opening a new competition. The deal could now run through March two thousand thirty two. Given Fujitsu's troubled history with public sector contracts in the UK, that decision is drawing scrutiny from multiple directions.
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