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Britain's National Cyber Security Centre is sounding an alarm that should make every IT team nervous. Artificial intelligence is now capable of scanning codebases at a scale no human team ever could, and it's surfacing vulnerabilities that have been quietly sitting in production systems for decades. The worry isn't just finding the bugs — it's the avalanche of patches that follow, arriving faster than most organizations can realistically absorb or test.
Meanwhile, Meta is making a stark statement about where the industry's priorities lie. Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the company is cutting eight thousand jobs, and the reason is blunt: the money is going to compute infrastructure instead. Meta spent seventy-two point two billion dollars on capital expenditure across all of two thousand twenty-five, and its guidance for two thousand twenty-six would nearly double that figure in a single year. Zuckerberg acknowledged further cuts cannot be ruled out.
On the hardware supply chain side, Wingtech — a major contract manufacturer with ties to chip company Nexperia — has posted a loss of one point three billion dollars and is now facing delisting from the Shanghai stock exchange. Auditors say they simply cannot verify fifty-seven percent of the company's reported assets, which is an extraordinary admission and a signal of deeper instability in that corner of the global electronics supply chain.
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