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Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a

China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China has sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait unofficially dividing the sides. China considers Taiwan its own territory and uses such deployments to advertise its threat to encircle and possibly invade the self-governing island. It wasn't clear why so many planes were scrambled between late Thursday and early Friday, as tabulated by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The planes were sent in two separate tranch…

TSMC closed above a $1T market cap in Taiwan on July 18, a first, up nearly 50% from an April low and the first Asian stock worth $1T since PetroChina in 2007 (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

Beschädigtes Unterseekabel vor Taiwan: Kapitän aus China verurteilt
Ende Februar beschädigte ein Frachter mit chinesischer Crew ein Unterseekabel vor Taiwan. Das hat nun Konsequenzen für den Kapitän.

I wonder what a computer built without materials from Taiwan, China, or China-aligned nations would look like. Sorry, *will* look like.

TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology…

Taiwan chip titan TSMC opens joint lab with University of Tokyo
Chipmaker 'definitely' committed to Japan despite huge US investment, says executive

Taiwan Indicts President's Aide on Charge of Spying for China (Yian Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/taiwan-indicts-president-s-aide-on-charge-of-spying-for-china
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p7#a250610p7

So much cybersecurity news, so little time. Don't miss today' jam-packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Cops bust up NoName057(16) by seizing servers, issuing warrants, and raiding homes
--6.5m Co-op members' data were stolen,
--Cambodia busts 1k for cybercrime,
--Thai police raid Cambodian tycoon's homes in scam probe,
--DoJ busts one and charges three other alleged Ryuk actors,
--Au…

Cops bust up NoName057(16) by seizing servers, issuing warrants, and raiding homes
6.5m Co-op members' data were stolen, Cambodia busts 1k for cybercrime, Thai police raid Cambodian tycoon's homes in scam probe, DoJ busts one and charges three other alleged Ryuk actors, Aussie right-wing party hit by ransomware, China cyberspies on Taiwan's semiconductor industry, much more

Ich habe mich für eine Recherche zu KI in #Taiwan beworben. Wird leider nichts, dank Elon Musk und Donald Trump:

Weekend Reads
* PQC for the RPKI https://labs.ripe.net/author/dirk/pqc-for-the-rpki/
* Big tech in Taiwan https://

PQC for the RPKI
Future capabilities of quantum attackers will present a host of new vulnerabilities for RPKI. A research student from SIDN Labs presents the first work on post-quantum cryptography for the RPKI, establishing the foundation for making this critical Internet infrastructure quantum-safe.

It is very revealing that @… has received money from the fascist Chinese government to publish their propaganda article “explaining” why Taiwan allegedly belongs to #China and why recognising Taiwan's struggle for independence from the totalitarian-ruled Chinese empire…

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has reportedly told his generals to be ready by 2027 to conquer the self-governing island of Taiwan,
which he regards as stolen sovereign territory.
US officials warned last week that China already has sufficient capability to invade now,
with amphibious landing craft,
D-day-style floating docks, paratroopers and expanded air combat and missile forces in a constant state of readiness.
Recent intimidating offshore military exercises…

Taiwan imposes export controls on Huawei, SMIC, and some of their subsidiaries, restricting their access to tech and equipment necessary for AI chip production (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

China issues warrants for alleged Taiwanese hackers and bans a business for pro-independence links
https://apnews.com/article/chian-taiwan-hacking-wanted-kuma-f937096e3163470b21597b4ec809d799

China issues warrants for alleged Taiwanese hackers and bans a business for pro-independence links
China has issued warrants Thursday for 20 Taiwanese people it said carried out hacking missions in the Chinese mainland on behalf of Taiwan’s ruling party, while separately banning dealings with a Taiwanese company whose owners mainland authorities called “hardcore Taiwan independence supporters.” Police in the southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou said they were led by a man named Ning Enwei on behalf of Taiwan’s independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party but did not identify …

China accuses Taiwan-linked group of cyberattack on local tech company https://therecord.media/china-accuses-taiwan-linked-group-of-cyberattacks

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

NATO caught with its 'pants down' if China, Russia try two-front war, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/nato-caught-with-its-pants.html

#CoWoS, or Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate,
is one of TSMC’s most advanced ways of packaging chips.
It allows several chips to work closely together as one,
making the whole system faster and more efficient while using less energy.

Why this key chip technology is crucial to the AI race between the US and China
In the largest single foreign investment in US history, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s “most powerful company” according to US President Donald Trump, unveiled a $100 billion investment, drawing global attention and prompting concern in Taiwan.

Europas erste eigene Prozessor-Entwicklung ist auf dem Weg!
🇪🇺💻 SiPearl hat einen wichtigen Meilenstein erreicht: Das Unternehmen hat sein CPU-Design für den Rhea1-Prozessor an TSMC in Taiwan geschickt, wo nun die ersten Chips produziert werden.
Zum Artikel: https://

TIL: On Taiwan TV, the BBC series “Doctor Who” is translated as “⁠何博士”.
博士 is simply the word for doctor (the academic degree, not a medical practitioner). But 何 is both a Chinese surname (transcribed as Ho or Hé) and an interrogative pronoun for “what” or “how”. Clever translation.
BBC and Disney use 超時空奇俠 as the Chinese title which translates as "across-time-space strange hero" and Netflix uses ⁠神秘博士 "Mysterious Doctor". 🤷

I am a bit surprised Xi already didn't start more threatening moves around Taiwan because we can be pretty sure Trump can't handle it, just like he can't handle the crises around Ukraine, Gaza and Iran. Also as a diversion it will help Putin.
#ukraine #taiwan

"Stop abusing poor UN Resolution 2758"
#Taiwan…

Stop abusing poor UN Resolution 2758 - Min Chao - Medium
UN Resolution 2758 contains 155 words, and the word “Taiwan” is not one of them. So how can Communist China keep claiming its UN enrollment paper proves, once and for all, that it is entitled to…

Ich lese das Buch "Careless people" von Sarah Wynn-Williams und bin in einem dauerhaften Kopfschüttelmodus.
Hier geht es um den Chef für Public Policy weltweit. Ihm musste erklärt werden, dass Taiwan eine Insel ist oder wo lateinamerikanische Länder liegen.

Schade. Das wäre guter Stoff für eine Black-Mirror-Folge gewesen. Jetzt ist es keine Dystopie mehr.
https://www.golem.de/news/kundenfang-am-unfallort-hacker-verkauft-daten-aus-notrufsystem-an-bestatter-2507-197…

Getting almost all the bits from a quantum random access code
Han-Hsuan Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Ronald de Wolf (QuSoft, CWI,University of Amsterdam)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01903

Getting almost all the bits from a quantum random access code
A quantum random access code (QRAC) is a map $x\mapstoρ_x$ that encodes $n$-bit strings $x$ into $m$-qubit quantum states $ρ_x$, in a way that allows us to recover any one bit of $x$ with success probability $\geq p$. The measurement on $ρ_x$ that is used to recover, say, $x_1$ may destroy all the information about the other bits; this is in fact what happens in the well-known QRAC that encodes $n=2$ bits into $m=1$ qubits. Does this generalize to large $n$, i.e., could there exist QRACs tha…

Investigating Algorithmic Bias in YouTube Shorts
Mert Can Cakmak, Nitin Agarwal, Diwash Poudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04605 https://

Investigating Algorithmic Bias in YouTube Shorts
The rapid growth of YouTube Shorts, now serving over 2 billion monthly users, reflects a global shift toward short-form video as a dominant mode of online content consumption. This study investigates algorithmic bias in YouTube Shorts' recommendation system by analyzing how watch-time duration, topic sensitivity, and engagement metrics influence content visibility and drift. We focus on three content domains: the South China Sea dispute, the 2024 Taiwan presidential election, and general YouTub…

Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese tech companies most impacted by new US chip design export rules, affecting its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2b0a0000-1bf6-475a-ac96-c17212afecc2

Xiaomi among Chinese tech groups set to be hardest hit by US chip software ban
Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools

Taiwan has issued a land warning as Typhoon Danas approaches from the southwest, bringing the threat of heavy rain and strong winds. The storm is expected to peak from Sunday afternoon through Monday morning, affecting 18 counties and cities across the island.
https://youtu.be/DmtZ4TGKqN0

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
C. -A. Hsieh (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University), T. Goto (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University), C. -T. Ling (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), S. J. Kim (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), T. Hashimoto (Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University), T.…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
This study presents the black hole accretion history (BHAH) of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified from the JWST CEERS survey by Chien et al. (2024) using mid-infrared (MIR) SED fitting. We compute black hole accretion rates (BHARs) to estimate the black hole accretion density (BHAD), $ρ_{L_{\mathrm{disk}}}$, across $0 < z < 4.25$. MIR luminosity functions (LFs) are also constructed for these sources, modeled with modified Schechter and double power law forms, and corresponding B…

French chipmaker SiPearl raised a €130M Series A from Taiwan's Cathay Venture and others to develop its Arm-based Rhea1 AI chip, set to feature 80 cores (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India by assigning it the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business, taking over from Taiwan's Wistron (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media…

Self-selection of Information and Belief Update: An Experiment on COVID-19 Vaccine Information Acquisition
ChienHsun Lin, Hans H. Tung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19056

Self-selection of Information and Belief Update: An Experiment on COVID-19 Vaccine Information Acquisition
Rational information acquisition theory predicts that people select the more informative information. Thus, people's beliefs will be more persuaded by the information they select. We test the prediction in a critical real-world context -- information about COVID-19 vaccines. We conducted an online experiment in Taiwan where the subjects selected information about COVID-19 vaccines, and then the subjects updated their beliefs about vaccine effectiveness and references to vaccines. As our design …

Sources: TSMC is evaluating building a "gigafab" in the UAE and has discussed the possibility with MGX and officials in the Trump administration (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

TSMC Is Said to Evaluate Building Advanced Chip Plant in the UAE
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is evaluating building an advanced production facility in the United Arab Emirates and has discussed the possibility with officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, according to people familiar with the matter, a potentially major bet on the Middle East that would only come to fruition with Washington’s approval.

EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20