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The U.S. Department of Justice has seized nearly four hundred domains running illegal streams of the two thousand twenty six FIFA World Cup. Dubbed Operation Offsides, the crackdown is five times the scale of previous efforts and was coordinated through Homeland Security Investigations — a signal that rights enforcement around live sports is getting significantly more aggressive.
On the hardware front, China's Loongson Technology has unveiled the three C three thousand, a sixteen-core server chip built entirely on its homegrown LoongArch architecture. Drawing just forty watts, it targets small and medium business workloads like file storage, web serving, and databases. It's a quiet but meaningful step in China's long push toward computing self-sufficiency.
And for anyone wrestling with post-quantum encryption rollouts, a site called tldr dot fail is documenting a real-world headache — buggy servers that break post-quantum key exchange compatibility in TLS. It's a reminder that upgrading cryptographic standards isn't just a software problem, it's an infrastructure problem, and the gap between theory and deployment can be surprisingly wide.
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