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Nvidia made a bold move at Computex this week, unveiling its RTX Spark, an Arm-based chip designed to compete directly with Apple's M-series silicon. It's a significant pivot for a company known for discrete graphics, and it puts pressure on Apple, Qualcomm, and frankly everyone else in the premium computing space.
Shifting from chips to children, Malaysia has begun enforcing its ban on social media access for users younger than sixteen. The country joins a small but growing list of governments willing to put legal teeth behind concerns about youth and social platforms — a trade-off between protection and access that democracies everywhere are still working through.
And in a story that feels equal parts detective work and archaeology, a security researcher known as zero-x-florent has unlocked roughly two million dollars in Ethereum that had been trapped inside a token sale contract since two thousand sixteen. He found an integer-overflow flaw that freed funds for forty-eight original investors — his second such recovery in just eight days.
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