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Taiwan has filed its first criminal indictment under laws protecting national core technologies, charging a former TSMC deputy manager with allegedly copying twenty-one confidential documents intended for use in China. Prosecutors are seeking up to seven years, and the case signals Taipei is taking semiconductor espionage far more seriously than ever before.
Shifting to the developer world, Netlify has introduced per-member spending limits for AI agents, giving teams a hard kill switch before an autonomous workflow burns through a budget overnight. It's a small but telling sign that the industry is learning, sometimes painfully, that AI agents need financial guardrails just as much as technical ones.
And Adobe is pushing deeper into AI-assisted photography with its experimental Project Indigo camera app, adding tools that remove distractions from a scene and offer real-time feedback on composition and exposure. It's another step toward a world where the camera itself becomes a collaborator, not just a capture device.
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