Taiwan increases penalty for damaging undersea cables amid increased suspected sabotage attempts — offenders face up to 7 years in prison and $325,000 in fines

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The Economic Commission in Taiwan’s legislature just approved the first reading of its ‘Seven Submarine Cable Laws’, which increases the penalty for deliberately damaging the island’s underwater infrastructure. According to Red Hot Cyber , violators will face a prison charge of up to seven years, plus a fine of up to NT$10 million or about US$325,000 at the current exchange rate.

Even those who accidentally damage an undersea cable will still

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TP-Link routers face potential U.S. ban over alleged China-related national security concerns — company "vigorously disputes" Department of Commerce's findings

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After facing intense scrutiny from several agencies for more than a year, the U.S. government is considering banning TP-Link routers outright, courtesy of a proposal from the Department of Commerce, backed by the Justice Department, Department of Defense, Homeland Security , and more. According to the Washington Post , the White House is concerned about national security due to TP-Link's close ties to China, a claim the company fervently denies in its statement, reiterating

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Samsung unleashes high-speed P9 Express microSD Express cards for the Switch 2 at highly competitive prices — 256GB and 512GB available for $54 and $99

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Samsung has introduced its P9 Express to contend with the best microSD Express cards available for the Nintendo Switch 2 . They are priced at $54.99 for the 256GB model and $99.99 for the 512GB variant.

Samsung has already released a Nintendo-licensed Super Mario Edition microSD Express 256GB card, coinciding with the launch of the Switch 2. However, the P9 Express represents the company's formal

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Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger praises cutting-edge Nvidia chip production with TSMC on US soil, despite Intel missing out — hails manufacturing milestone of US-based supply chain

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Intel's former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has praised the news that Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs are now being produced at its Arizona facility . It's important, he said, for the most cutting-edge silicon supply chains to be resilient, and that such moves would also help Nvidia develop and iterate faster and bigger into the future.

This comes as somewhat of a surprise, as it was under Gelsinger's leadership that Intel pushed so

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Intel opens pop-up stores across five cities featuring AI PCs from laptop manufacturers — we stopped by the NYC store, and one visitor in Munich found Panther Lake

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Intel is opening pop-up stores in five cities across the globe to promote its AI PCs just in time for the winter holiday shopping season. Intel AI Experience stores have unlocked their doors in New York City, London, Munich, Paris, and Seoul from the end of October until November or December, depending on the location.

The stores feature laptops from brands like Asus, Acer, Dell , Google , HP, Lenovo, LG , Microsoft , MSI, and Samsung

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LG's 32-inch, 4K OLED gaming monitor falls to $799 — dual-mode display is $500 off

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It's an odd time to make purchases or look out for deals on your most-wanted pieces of tech. You are most probably holding out for Black Friday or Cyber Monday before committing to anything, but a large number of super early deals have already started popping up, and some companies have already gone all-in and embraced the Black Friday advertising. Today's deal features a large OLED gaming monitor from LG, with a substantial $500 knocked off the list

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Police bust chip counterfeiting outfit in China, fakes may have made it into PC hardware — GPUs, motherboards, and power supplies potentially impacted by fake Infineon and TI power chips

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Shenzhen authorities have dismantled a counterfeit chip operation that allegedly sold reclaimed and rebranded integrated circuits as premium imports from Infineon, Texas Instruments, and other Western semiconductor firms. According to reporting by the S outh China Morning Post , police spent four months investigating the ring, which resurfaced discarded chips, laser-polished their markings, and re-labeled them with high-spec part numbers before distributing them through shell companies posing as foreign agents.

At least one arrest has been made, and

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Asus' first-ever ROG AI gaming router costs as much as a mini PC and has the specs to match — device boasts quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage for $899

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI router integrates an NPU to make your network way smarter.

New AMD driver snubs Radeon RX 5000, 6000 GPUs with latest updates — also disables USB-C functionality on RX 7900 series

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Are you still stuck deep in Battlefield 6 and dearly desiring a driver update to improve performance on your Radeon RX 6000 series GPU? Well, we have good and bad news for you: the latest Adrenalin update adds game-specific support for Battlefield 6 as well as Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 , but that doesn't include your GPU. Indeed, with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 , AMD has added support

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$2,000 PC Build Spotlight: Rising Phoenix

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As you get older, certain items start to hold meaning in a way they didn't before. Sometimes, these are old things. Every morning, you find yourself reaching for that coffee mug you’ve

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