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Taiwan will Chip-Lieferketten sicherer machen
Taiwan ist für seine Halbleiter-Technologie bekannt. Doch das Land steht unter Druck, weshalb Präsident Lai Ching-te verstärkt Kooperationen sucht.
https://www.

Taiwan ready to halt Russian naphtha purchases if EU requests, minister says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/taiwan-ready-to-halt-russian.html

Decade-long Emission Forecasting with an Ensemble Model in Taiwan
Gordon Hung, Salinna Abdullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05548 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Decade-long Emission Forecasting with an Ensemble Model in Taiwan
Taiwan's high population and heavy dependence on fossil fuels have led to severe air pollution, with the most prevalent greenhouse gas being carbon dioxide (CO2). There-fore, this study presents a reproducible and comprehensive case study comparing 21 of the most commonly employed time series models in forecasting emissions, analyzing both univariate and multivariate approaches. Among these, Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest Regressor (RFR) achie…

Taiwan reports first case of chikungunya virus from China outbreak | Health News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/8/taiwan-reports-first-case-of-chikungunya-virus-from-china-outbreak?traffic_source=rss

Taiwan says TSMC will not have to pay 100% tariffs on US chip imports, as it has set up US plants; UMC may see reduced impact through its cooperation with Intel (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Thousands–Including Many Visitors–Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/thousands-including-visitors-volunteer-in-taiwan-to-help-flood-victims-following-typhoon…

Thousands Including Visitors Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon and Flood
Heading southward in extra trains, the volunteers included two Ukrainian women who had lived in Taiwan for 9 years.

“Zero Day Attack”, a TV series, is terrifying audiences in Taiwan
Blockades, blackouts and bullets: China invades Taiwan on screen
https://www.

Blockades, blackouts and bullets: China invades Taiwan on screen
“Zero Day Attack”, a TV series, is terrifying audiences in Taiwan

「狩獵女性的遊戲」：台灣「創意私房」案偵結，加害者是如何「成魔」？ - BBC News 中文 #Taiwan

「狩獵女性的遊戲」：台灣「創意私房」案偵結，加害者是如何「成魔」？ - BBC News 中文
被稱為「台版N號房」的「創意私房」事件，曝光20萬部非法性影像，受害者超過4000人。BBC中文採訪多名社工與檢察官，他們形容這群年輕男性犯罪者，在現實與網路呈現完全不同的人格，「不知道自己怎麼會走到這裡」。

If the US can tell the President of Taiwan to stay out of the US then one might wonder: When will other countries tell FFOTUS to keep away?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/asia/trump-taiwan-china.html

Trump Administration Told Taiwan’s President to Avoid U.S. Stopover
The Taiwanese leader canceled U.S. transit visits after being urged to change his plans, two officials said. Washington has been in talks with Beijing over trade and a possible summit.

Primordial Black Holes, Charge, and Dark Matter: Rethinking Evaporation Limits
Sebastian Schuster (Stockholm University), Jessica Santiago (National Taiwan University), Justin Feng (CEICO Prague), Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08375

Primordial Black Holes, Charge, and Dark Matter: Rethinking Evaporation Limits
Limits on the dark matter fraction of small mass primordial black holes from Hawking radiation are predominantly derived from the assumption of a Schwarzschild black hole evaporating. However, astrophysical black holes are usually much more realistically modelled by the rotating Kerr black hole solution. Meanwhile, electromagnetically charged black holes are astrophysically of little importance due to their fast neutralisation in the present universe. Dark matter is not just a possible solution…

Tokyo Electron says it fired an employee in Taipei and is cooperating with Taiwan's investigation after Taiwan arrested six people over alleged TSMC IP theft (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

2-Nanometer-Technik: Ingenieure sollen TSMC-Geheimnisse gestohlen haben
In Taiwan bahnt sich eine potenzielle Sicherheitskrise an. Ehemalige TSMC-Ingenieure sollen unerlaubt Geschäftsgeheimnisse entwendet haben.

Nothing signals the future US military strategy quite like asking Taiwanese companies to stop manufacturing in Taiwan.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/taiwan_says_it_wont_help/

Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing
: US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support

New Tourism Buildings Designed to Seamlessly Blend in at Famous Rocky Geopark https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/design-firm-blends-new-tourist-infrastructure-into-the-very-rock-of-this-famous-taiwan-geopark/…

Design Firm Blends New Tourist Infrastructure into the Very Rock of this Famous Taiwan Geopark
Jialeshui is a well-known scenic area in the southernmost part of Taiwan, known for its remarkable rock formations shaped by wind and water

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power,
--Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise,
--China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive,
-- Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate,
--US has optio…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/26/25
The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power, Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise, China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive, Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate, US has options to counter UK demand for encryption backdoors

Taiwan becomes top importer of Russian naphtha, with derivatives sold to European countries that back sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/02/taiwan-becomes-top-importer-of.html

Why Britain should not be rattling sabres at China over Taiwan | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-britain-should-not-be-rattling-sabres-china-over-taiwan

China is undertaking a large-scale build-out of infrastructure along its eastern coast,
including air and naval sites that show its growing readiness for a potential conflict over Taiwan.
Satellite images and other open-source material examined by The Wall Street Journal illustrate how these facilities would strengthen China’s hand if it launched an invasion of the island democracy.
Beijing claims Taiwan as its territory and has pledged to take it, by force if necessary.

Taiwan votes in major recall election closely watched by China (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-votes-major-recall-election-closely-watched-by-china-2025-07-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p129#a250725p129

Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US, negotiator says
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-not-agree-50-50-002030899.html

Taiwan's chip sector is cultivating overseas talent with summer camps and university courses to address a shortage of skilled professionals and production staff (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Taiwan becomes leading importer of Russian naphtha in first half of 2025, report says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/taiwan-becomes-leading-importer-of.html

Apple removed the Taiwan flag emoji (🇹🇼) from the iOS 13 keyboard for users in Hong Kong and Macau.
#Numbnuts

Xi says China will invade Taiwan — Sarah Paine - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TUDsUw3gG6I

Super Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong – video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/sep/25/super-typhoon-ragasa-batters-hong-kong-video
Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and south China after killing dozens in Taiwan and Phil…

Extreme #Hitze kann den #Alterungsprozess im Körper beschleunigen.
Eine Studie aus #Taiwan zeigt, dass zwei Jahre mit häufigen

New Study Shows Heat Waves Make People Age Faster
Exposure to heat waves over just two years could add up to 12 extra days of age-related health damage.

🫨 Self-tuning energy device turns vibrations into power
#energy

Self-tuning energy device turns vibrations into power
Researchers at National Taiwan University developed a new device that captures energy from vibrations more efficiently. Its self-adjusting mechanism enables resonance with environmental frequencies, resulting in higher power output across a broader operational range.

Design and Implementation of a Secure RAG-Enhanced AI Chatbot for Smart Tourism Customer Service: Defending Against Prompt Injection Attacks -- A Case Study of Hsinchu, Taiwan
Yu-Kai Shih, You-Kai Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21367

Design and Implementation of a Secure RAG-Enhanced AI Chatbot for Smart Tourism Customer Service: Defending Against Prompt Injection Attacks -- A Case Study of Hsinchu, Taiwan
As smart tourism evolves, AI-powered chatbots have become indispensable for delivering personalized, real-time assistance to travelers while promoting sustainability and efficiency. However, these systems are increasingly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where adversaries manipulate inputs to elicit unintended behaviors such as leaking sensitive information or generating harmful content. This paper presents a case study on the design and implementation of a secure retrieval-augmented gen…

Hm?... Vamos fazer drones com os ucranianos? Não devia ser notícia cš, isso?
https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/115130648160130676

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.

Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.

Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/…

Thailand carves out a less-glamorous AI niche: printed circuit boards
Country aims to be biggest non-China PCB hub as makers race to diversify production

aus der reihe "schöne ideen, zufällig entdeckt" heute: in der erlangen-nürnberger #sinologie stellt sich das team jeweils mit einem #hànzì-#schriftzeichen vor:

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…

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.

Efficient estimation for flexible spatial zero-inflated models with environmental applications
Chung-Wei Shen (Department of Mathematics, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, R.O.C), Bu-Ren Hsu (Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C), Chia-Ming Hsu (Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C), Chun-Shu Chen (Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiw…

Efficient estimation for flexible spatial zero-inflated models with environmental applications
Spatial two-component mixture models offer a robust framework for analyzing spatially correlated data with zero inflation. To circumvent potential biases introduced by assuming a specific distribution for the response variables, we employ a flexible spatial zero-inflated model. Despite its flexibility, this model poses significant computational challenges, particularly with large datasets, due to the high dimensionality of spatially dependent latent variables, the complexity of matrix operation…

In 1661, the first Chinese general seized Taiwan, replacing its inhabitants with his army’s descendants. Now, his legacy is used to support the Chinese unification narrative.
@…
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Tim Mak (@timkmak)
In 1661, the first Chinese general seized Taiwan, replacing its inhabitants with his army’s descendants. Now, his legacy is used to support the Chinese unification narrative.

Sachsen setzt auf "Strahlkraft" durch Ansiedlung von TSMC
Auf der Halbleitermesse Semicon in Taiwan hat Sachsens Wirtschaftsminister die Werbetrommel für Silicon Saxony gerührt. Einen Erfolg gibt es zu vermelden.

President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan had planned to make brief stops in New York and Dallas next month, en route to and from Latin America,
hoping to demonstrate the island’s strong ties with the United States in defiance of China.
But the Trump administration,
which is focused on talks with Beijing over trade and a possible summit,
told Mr. Lai to cancel his proposed stopover in New York,
Mr. Lai canceled his whole trip.
The hints of tension between Taipei and …

Trump Administration Told Taiwan’s President to Avoid U.S. Stopover
The Taiwanese leader canceled U.S. transit visits after being urged to change his plans, two officials said. Washington has been in talks with Beijing over trade and a possible summit.

Trump blocks Taiwan's President Lai from New York stopover (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/21575bec-5cdd-47ee-9db2-3031c4ea7ca7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p113#a250728p113

Taiwan curbs chip exports to South Africa over national security concerns, the first time it has used its chip industry as a weapon against a China ally (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/taiwan-c…

@…
In case you've missed it. About linux desktop on arm
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Where-are-w…

'China Very Patient, Xi Won't Invade Taiwan During My Presidency': Trump
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-very-patient-xi-jinping-wont-invade-taiwan-during-my-presidency-donald-trump-9098653/amp/1

Trump declined to approve more than $400 million in military aid to Taiwan this summer,
as he tries to negotiate a trade deal and potential summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The decision, which may still be reversed, marks a U-turn in U.S. policy toward the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.

Two people familiar with the matter said the package was worth more than $400 million and would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

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

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US aims to get "maybe 50% market share" of chip and wafer production to offset Beijing's threats to invade Taiwan (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I'm dispositionally sceptical of falling sky prophesies and what Mr Schneier calls "movie plot threats".
But.
I can't deny I'm a bit nervous that all this noisy dancing up to the edge of disaster and back might be a deliberate scheme, intended to get European militaries locked up on the Eastern front from Finland to Romania, before China finally have a crack at Taiwan.
"Estonia seeks Nato consultation after Russian jets violate airspace"

Nato intercepts Russian warplanes violating Estonian airspace
Estonia says three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets remained in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes.

"Trump says Xi told him China will not invade Taiwan while he is US president"
Now we know what "everlasting peace" requires. ☮️💡
#USA #China #Taiwan #peace #illusion

Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules related to obtaining sensitive info on 2nm chip tech; TSMC says it detected "unauthorized activities" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

TSMC fires workers for breaching data rules on cutting-edge chip tech
Prosecutors are investigating the matter under Taiwan's National Security Act

Trump’s Tariffs Are Damaging America’s Biggest Foreign Source of Screws - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/business/taiwan-manufacturing-trump-tariffs.html

Russia helping China prepare for war with Taiwan, leaked documents say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/27/russia-helping-china-prepare-for.html

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
Yuan-Ming Hsu (National Taiwan University), Xiaosheng Huang (University of San Francisco, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Christopher J. Storfer (University of Hawai`i, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jose Carlos Inchausti (University of San Francisco), David Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Moustakas (Siena College), J. Aguilar (the DESI Collaboration),…

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,621 spectra in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 that are selected in this way. We further inspect the 11,848 images corresponding to these spectra in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10, and obtain 2046 conventional strong gravitational lens candidates, of which 1906 are new. T…

Do Teachers Dream of GenAI Widening Educational (In)equality? Envisioning the Future of K-12 GenAI Education from Global Teachers' Perspectives
Ruiwei Xiao, Qing Xiao, Xinying Hou, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Hanqi Jane Li, Hong Shen, John Stamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10782

Do Teachers Dream of GenAI Widening Educational (In)equality? Envisioning the Future of K-12 GenAI Education from Global Teachers' Perspectives
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly entering K-12 classrooms worldwide, initiating urgent debates about its potential to either reduce or exacerbate educational inequalities. Drawing on interviews with 30 K-12 teachers across the United States, South Africa, and Taiwan, this study examines how teachers navigate this GenAI tension around educational equalities. We found teachers actively framed GenAI education as an equality-oriented practice: they used it to alleviate pre-exis…

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

Taiwan indicts three people for allegedly stealing TSMC's 2nm secrets to help Tokyo Electron, the first such case, and recommends a combined 14-year prison term (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/emerging/t

Taiwan suspends chip export controls on South Africa after just two days, signaling discomfort with using the key tech export as a weapon in diplomatic disputes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/tai…

In düsteren Zeiten #GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
Alternativer #Nobelpreis - Mit dem #RightLivelihoodAward

Alternativer Nobelpreis für Aktivisten aus Asien und Afrika
Mit dem Right Livelihood Award werden Menschen geehrt, die sich für Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit einsetzen. Dieses Jahr geht der Preis unter anderem an Klimaschützer aus Ozeanien und eine Programmiererin aus Taiwan.

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks
Lauren I. Biddle (The University of Texas at Austin), Brendan P. Bowler (University of California Santa Barbara), Marvin Morgan (The University of Texas at Austin, University of California Santa Barbara), Quang H. Tran (Yale University), Ya-Lin Wu (Taiwan Normal University)
https://

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks
Exoplanets are organized in a broad array of orbital configurations that reflect their formation along with billions of years of dynamical processing through gravitational interactions. This history is encoded in the angular momentum architecture of planetary systems--the relation between the rotational properties of the central star and the orbital geometry of planets. A primary observable is the alignment (or misalignment) between the rotational axis of the star and the orbital plane of its p…

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://

Shares of SoftBank plunged as much as 9.17% on Wednesday, as tech stocks in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong fall after US tech stocks dropped overnight (Amala Balakrishner/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/softbank-gr…

SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks decline
Losses were also seen in other technology stocks in South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

At the Semicon trade show in Taipei, Taiwan promotes diplomatic relations and pitches its tech manufacturing to "create trusted non-red supply chains" (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/tai

AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost "more than 5% but less than 20%" above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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-…