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Three semiconductor giants may have just drawn the map for computing's next chapter. Imec, ASML, and TSMC have successfully fabricated complementary two-dimensional material transistors on a single three-hundred millimeter wafer at a fifty nanometer pitch. That's both n-type and p-type transistors built with atomically thin channels — a pairing the industry has been chasing for years. If this scales, silicon's long reign may genuinely be numbered.
Meanwhile, not everyone is celebrating the infrastructure powering that kind of progress. A Republican-aligned group is organizing a nationwide day of protest against what they're calling the unchecked expansion of AI data centers. The movement frames itself as giving ordinary Americans a voice in decisions about land use, energy draw, and local impact — a reminder that the politics of compute are catching up to the technology itself.
And in Texas, three million residents are dealing with something far more immediate. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says a breach at one of its vendors exposed customer data tied to hunting and fishing licenses — potentially including driver's license and passport numbers. It's a familiar story: a large agency, a third-party supplier, and millions of people caught in the middle.
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