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China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs β€” new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust "response mechanism" to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its "competitive advantages in rare earths."

Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims β€” game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive

The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.

Taiwan expects power demand to increase by more than 5GW by 2030, enough to power nearly 4 million homes β€” rise in electricity consumption driven by semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center deployments

New semiconductor fabs and data centers are fueling Taiwan's growing power demand, with the island expected to require more than 5GW of new electricity sources and power infrastructure to keep up.

Trump summons tech giants to White House to pledge power payment commitments β€” β€˜ratepayer protection plan’ will make data center operators negotiate discrete payment structure for electricity use

Some of the U.S.'s biggest AI tech companies are expected to go to the White House to sign the "ratepayer protection pledge" that promises they will pay for all of their electricity usage and not pass on the burden of increased rates to the average American.

South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online β€” stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders

South Korea's National Tax Agency added a photo of a hardware wallet in a press release, which also listed its mnemonic seed phrase. This led to an unknown user using the code to recover the wallet and steal over US$4.8 million in crypto seized by the government.

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