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China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, and it did it without a single GPU. The machine, called LineShine, tops the global rankings despite operating under sweeping American export restrictions. It's a striking signal that China is finding its own path around Western chip controls, and that the race for compute supremacy is far from settled.
Shifting from raw power to raw vulnerability, Polymarket customers lost three million dollars in a supply-chain attack that targeted the popular prediction market platform. Hackers compromised a dependency in the software stack rather than attacking Polymarket directly, a reminder that your security is only as strong as every piece of code your platform relies on, including the ones you didn't write.
And finally, the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has delivered the most detailed image ever captured of the Milky Way's center, pulling more than sixty million stars into a single breathtaking frame. It's not just a beautiful picture — it's a scientific instrument, one that could help astronomers map dark matter and understand the deep structure of our galaxy.
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