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A sweeping new survey from ADP covering more than thirty-nine thousand workers across thirty-six countries paints a striking picture of anxiety in the modern workplace. The vast majority of employees say they do not feel secure in their jobs, and artificial intelligence sits squarely at the center of those fears. Researchers say that insecurity itself carries a cost — workers who feel uncertain are measurably less productive, making this not just a human problem but a business one.
That anxiety has a physical address, and it sits in the Arizona desert. TSMC is accelerating the buildout of its American chip fabrication facilities, betting that demand for AI hardware represents what the company is calling a megatrend. The move reflects how deeply the semiconductor industry has committed to the AI boom — and how much of that future the United States wants manufactured on its own soil.
And on the quieter side of the technology stack, a piece circulating online takes a hard look at something most of us never think about — the genuine cost of randomness. Generating true entropy, the kind that makes cryptography and secure systems actually work, turns out to be computationally expensive in ways that have real consequences for security infrastructure worldwide.
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