China bans OpenClaw from government computers and issues security guidelines amid adoption frenzy — nation scrambles to rein in popular AI agent

China’s central government warned state enterprises and agencies not to install OpenClaw on office computers this week as multiple government bodies moved to rein in the AI agent.
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Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets compressed malware leisurely stroll past 95% of antivirus apps — security suites are blissfully unaware of security issue

Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets malware stroll past gates of 95% of AV suites

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AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia join hyperscalers to define optical scale-up interconnect of the future for AI clusters — Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to benefit as speeds eventually scale to 3.2 Tb/s

AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia team up with Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI to develop protocol-agnostic optical scale-up interconnects for AI clusters.
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IBM and Lam’s new partnership paves the way toward sub-1nm logic using High-NA EUV — Albany lab to pioneer dry resist process integration

Under the new agreement, the focus will shift to validating full process flows for nanosheet and nanostack device architectures and backside power delivery.
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Iran hacking group claims attack on med-tech company Stryker — says over 200,000 devices have been wiped clean and over 50TB of data extracted

Stryker, a Fortune 500 medical technology company, has been hit with a massive cyberattack that allegedly saw over 200,000 devices wiped clean, affecting employees and operations across the globe.
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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market

QatarEnergy has not restarted helium production at its Ras Laffan complex nine days after Iranian drone strikes forced the facility offline.
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Meta reveals four new MTIA chips built for AI inference — to be released on a six-month cadence

All four chips have been developed in partnership with Broadcom and are scheduled for deployment within the next two years.
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OpenClaw AI agent craze sweeps China as authorities seek to clamp down amid security fears — adoption surges as state-run enterprises are barred from use

Following rampant and rapid adoption and proliferation of the agentic AI tool OpenClaw, Chinese authorities have warned government-run institutions and companies not to install the tool — and warned everyone about its pote…

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Iran threatens Nvidia, Microsoft, other tech companies with strikes over alleged attack on Tehran bank — says that economic centers and banks are now considered legitimate targets

Iranian media just released a list of potential economic targets, including offices and infrastructure of Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and more in the Middle East.
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IBM and Lam Research team up on High NA EUV dry resist to push chip scaling past 1nm

The two companies have worked together for more than a decade, with IBM unveiling what it described as the world’s first 2nm node chip in 2021 as part of the partnership.
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