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China's quiet chip stockpile is drawing serious attention today. A Washington think tank reports that Chinese chipmakers accumulated an estimated three hundred forty three immersion lithography tools between two thousand twelve and early two thousand twenty six — equipment capable of producing seven nanometer class chips. That gives Beijing's semiconductor industry considerably more domestic firepower than export controls were designed to allow.
Shifting to a story that sits right at the intersection of crime and curiosity — a solo developer has taken source code stolen during the Rhysida ransomware attack on Insomniac Games back in two thousand twenty three and built a working PC port of Marvel's Wolverine, a title that was never released on anything but PlayStation five. It's buggy, it's unofficial, and it raises uncomfortable questions about what happens to stolen intellectual property once it escapes into the wild.
And on the streets of London, Deliveroo is rolling out its first robot delivery fleet this month, starting in Canary Wharf before expanding to four more UK cities. Four wheeled autonomous couriers will handle orders that would otherwise go to human riders — a small pilot, but a meaningful signal of where last mile delivery is heading.
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