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Justine Calma / The Verge : How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America's Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years   —  Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images … Arizona's economy was once dominated by the “five C's”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate.

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech : While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech   —  The artificial intelligence revolution will be only three years old at the end of November.  Think about that for a moment.

Having covered Ukraine … and Russia … for over three decades, especially the war between the two countries for the last several years, I’ve naturally been fascinated by the latest Trump administration effort to broker peace. The reaction I’ve been getting from contacts in Ukraine to the 28-point plan to end the war is not all that positive.   "It’s not worth the paper it’s written on," said one observer. "Any deal would have to include Ukraine…and Europe," noted another.  The overall consensus of analysts is that the document is slanted heavily towards Moscow. The man at the center of things, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been diplomatic in various statements, basically saying he’s "reviewing the points" aiming at arriving at a "dignified peace." US AND RUSSIA DRAFT PEACE PLAN FOR UKRAINE REQUIRING MAJOR CONCESSIONS FROM KYIV There are all sorts of talks happening now between the U.S. and Ukraine and among European leaders....

President Donald Trump said the Democratic senators’ viral video urging service members to "refuse illegal orders" should be "punishable by death," intensifying outrage across the political spectrum — and confusion about what that advice could actually mean under federal law. While the lawmakers behind the video — led by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and joined by Sens. Mark Kelly , D-Ariz., and several Democratic House veterans and intelligence officers — framed the appeal as a defense of the Constitution, military legal codes make clear that refusing orders, even ones a service member personally believes are unlawful, can carry devastating penalties.  "You can’t expect a sailor to overrule Washington lawyers," Rachel VanLandingham, a retired Air Force JAG and professor at Southwestern Law School, told Fox News Digital. "That’s why it’s unfair to put the burden on the military instead of on policymakers." Under the Uniform Code of Military J...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached   —  American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds' Florida gubernatorial campaign plans to deploy a truck outside of former Vice President Kamala Harris' book tour stop in Miami on Thursday.  The truck will roll a video that delivers the message, "Kamala Harris and radical Florida Democrats are for they/them. Byron Donalds is for you," Fox News Digital has learned.  Without naming them, the video also targets two Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls, showing a graphic that includes rainbow pride flags and images of Harris, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and former U.S. Rep. David Jolly, a former House member who served in Congress as a Republican but who is running for governor as a Democrat. Harris , who lost the 2024 presidential election, authored a book about her whirlwind campaign titled "107 Days."  HARRIS ONCE BOASTED OF ‘BEHIND THE SCENES’ WORK TO GET ‘EVERY’ TRANS INMATE ACCESS TO GENDER SURGERIES Her event in Miami is scheduled to take place on Thursday night. ...

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg : Source: Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital   —  Twenty's technology helps military hackers find ways to penetrate targets.  —  Last fall, a group of former military hackers …