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Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes

Japan's fledgling foundry biz Rapidus has secured funding of $1.7 billion to help it progress to mass production of 2nm semiconductors by 2027, making it a potential rival for Taiwan's TSMC.…

Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world's largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those devices into nodes for web crawling -- collecting data used by AI companies, among other clients -- and most consumers have had no idea it was happening. The company has published more than 200 first-party apps to LG's app store alone and still lists Samsung's Tizen OS and LG's webOS as supported platforms, though LG says the SDK is "not officially supported" and its operation on webOS "is not guaranteed." Google, Amazon, and Roku have all since adopted policies restricting or banning background proxy SDKs, and Bright Data no longer supports those platforms. Several Roku apps still running the SDK disappeared from the store after a journalist with The Verge behind this reporting contacted the company.

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Bloor Homes could turn South Winchester Golf Club into a sprawling development with 1,200 'low-carbon' homes.

William Backhouse, 30, escaped unharmed after the Northern Rail train ploughed into the front of his van at 49mph at Braystones station in Cumbria.

Tony Devenport, 57, was handed a life sentence after Chester Crown Court heard Stephanie Blundell, 41, was found with extensive bruising across her face and body.

A head teacher has blamed bubbling 'community tensions' for violence that saw pupils fighting on school grounds, leaving one staff member hospitalised and others injured. 

Floundering Keir Starmer insisted he will 'fight on' today after being humiliated by the Greens in a disastrous by-election.

OpenAI has closed what is now the largest private financing in history -- a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation that more than doubles the $40 billion raise it completed just a year ago, itself a record for a private tech company at the time. Amazon invested $50 billion, SoftBank put in $30 billion, and Nvidia committed $30 billion, and additional investors are expected to join as the round progresses. The valuation is a sharp jump from the $500 billion OpenAI commanded in a secondary financing in October, and the round dwarfs recent raises by rivals Anthropic ($30 billion) and xAI ($20 billion). The company has been telling investors it is now targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030, a more measured figure than the $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments CEO Sam Altman had touted months earlier. OpenAI is projecting more than $280 billion in total revenue by 2030, split roughly equally between consumer and enterprise. ChatGPT now has over 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million paying subscribers.

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Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps

The Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records belonging to the telco.…

Tulchan Estate, completed in 1906, was sold to a company owned by Yuri Schefler in 2017 - for an asking price of £25million.

Trefor Community Council wants a Welsh-language condition included before it approves a bid to build 15 affordable homes in the majority Welsh-speaking village of Trefor in Gwynedd.

Peter Ticktin, who has represented the president in court, is part of a group of pro-Trump lawyers in communication with the White House over the election plan.

Just two months ago, Netflix looked poised to pull off a Hollywood coup - and getting control of Superman and Harry Potter.

The former soldier returned to Nottinghamshire, to start a new life as a fireman with his salesperson wife and children after inheriting the Victorian Cottage.

OpenAI, whose European headquarters are in Dublin, has vowed to significantly expand the size of its London site, where 30 researchers currently work.

Searching through a diary belonging to MI6 analyst Gareth Williams, Scotland Yard detectives came across a mysterious phrase written in his handwriting that left them baffled.

Love Island star Maura Higgins was left furious as she was betrayed at the final hurdle on the US Traitors by her co-star Rob Rauch.

Hamit Coskun was initially convicted last June of religiously aggravated public order after holding a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouting 'f*** Islam' on February 13, 2025.

EV advocates have celebrated the news as a 'major milestone' that shows that 'electric cars have become mainstream'.

Fearful campaigners left 'anxious' as more than 20 bus services at risk as council plans shake up