AI boom to keep supply of high-end memory chips tight this year, analysts warn
High-performance memory chips are likely to remain in tight supply this year, as explosive AI demand drives a shortage for these chips, according to analysts.
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190 Chinese workers among 250 detained in Philippine scam farm raid
Philippine authorities have detained more than 250 people, most of them Chinese, in a raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
UK gives sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius. A key US base remains
LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base.
2 Killed as Typhoon Krathon Drenches Taiwan Before Landfall
Two people have been killed and over 120 have been injured as Typhoon Krathon inches toward Taiwan’s populous southwestern coast, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that have caused landslides and floods, the authorities said on Thursday.
Taiwan shuts down for Typhoon Krathon, torrential rain forecast
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — Taiwan shut down on Wednesday (Oct 2), grounding hundreds of flights and closing schools, offices and financial markets ahead of the arrival of a weakening Typhoon Krathon, forecast to lash the coast with storm surges and torrential rain.
Chinese and Russian coast guard ships sail through the Bering Sea together, US says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it spotted two Russian ships and two Chinese vessels passing through the Bering Sea in formation on Saturday, in a sign of the growing cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic.
Is That a Panda? Or a Dog in Disguise?
You’re running a zoo. But visitors are clamoring for something different, more exotic.
Monday Briefing: The Aftermath of Nasrallah’s Death
Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday near Beirut, Lebanon, in an attack that Israel’s military said had hit the militia’s headquarters. Nasrallah was a beacon for anti-Israel forces across the Middle East and beyond, and his death is a major blow to Hezbollah.
China threatens sanctions on Calvin Klein owner over Xinjiang cotton boycott
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