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China has expanded travel restrictions to include the families of top artificial intelligence researchers, a move that signals just how tightly Beijing wants to control its most valuable technical minds. It's a significant escalation — using loved ones as leverage to prevent a brain drain the government clearly views as a national security threat.
Closer to your pocket, a new forecast warns that cheap smartphones could effectively disappear by the end of the decade. Analysts project budget device production could fall by forty percent by two thousand thirty, as the AI boom drives up the cost of chips and memory, while manufacturers quietly abandon low-margin entry-level lines altogether.
And in the open-source security world, researchers have uncovered a campaign called DirtyBlanket — fake packages impersonating the popular Express framework on NPM, designed to spread a Linux worm across developer machines. It's a sharp reminder that the software supply chain remains one of the most exploited attack surfaces in modern computing, and vigilance in dependency management has never mattered more.
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