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The NSA is urging everyone to reboot their home routers, and it's worth taking seriously. A simple restart can disrupt malware that lives in a router's memory, and with remote work still widespread, your home network is very much part of the national security conversation. Thirty seconds of downtime could matter.
From security to identity, it turns out being named Claude in two thousand twenty six comes with unexpected complications. Bloomberg reports that people who share their name with Anthropic's AI assistant are fielding confused looks, awkward introductions, and the occasional moment where someone assumes they're talking to a chatbot. It's a small but genuinely human story about what happens when a brand name colonizes everyday language.
And on the chip-making front, ASML shipped forty-eight extreme ultraviolet lithography systems last year alongside one hundred thirty-one immersion tools, pulling in thirty-two point seven billion euros in revenue. That order backlog of thirty-eight point eight billion tells you everything about how hungry the industry is for the machines that make modern semiconductors possible. The bottleneck isn't ambition β it's manufacturing capacity.
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