Taiwan Arrests Six in Probe of TSMC Chip Technology Leak
The chipmaker to Nvidia Corp. reported a number of former and current staff to authorities on suspicion they illegally obtained core technology. A total of six people were arrested, with two posting bail and one released afterwards, said Taiwan High Prosecutors Office spokesman John Nieh. Prosecutors searched the homes of some staff between July 25 and July 28, the agency said in a statement. It's now trying to find out if data had been leaked to other parties.
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Former FBI official who worked with fired Acting Director speaks out on sudden dismissal
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In India, Immigration Raids Detain Thousands and Create a Climate of Fear
A waste picker from a Delhi slum, who said he had been deported with his pregnant wife and son. A rice farmer in Assam, in India's northeastern corner, who said his mother had been detained by police for weeks. A 60‑year‑old shrine attendant in the western state of Gujarat, who said he had been blindfolded, beaten by the police and then put on a boat. All have been caught up in a widening crackdown on migrants that the Indian government has justified as a national security imperative. Rights groups say the crackdown, which intensified after a terrorist attack in Kashmir in April, has become an increasingly arbitrary campaign of fear against Muslims in India, especially those whose language might mark them as outsiders. Most of those detained in the raids live hundreds of miles from Pakistan, which India has blamed for the attack. Thousands of Indian Bengali-speakers, most of them Muslims, have been rounded up, detained or expelled to Bangladesh. Many of them are from West Bengal, an eastern Indian state where Bengali is the main language; for decades, young people from the state have migrated to big Indian cities elsewhere for work. Several million undocumented Bangladeshis are thought to live in India, entering — legally or illegally — through the porous border that divides the two nations. Indian states have carried out raids on neighborhoods with dense concentrations of Bengali speakers, saying they had evidence of undocumented immigrants there. (Bengali, an official language of both India and Bangladesh, is spoken by tens of millions of people on both sides of the border.) Since mid-July, authorities in Gurgaon, a satellite city of the capital, New Delhi, have conducted what they call a verification drive, intended to identify illegal immigrants. The police in Gurgaon have detained and then released hundreds of people with documents showing they lived legally in India, according to local media reports. Hundreds of mostly poor Bengali speakers, the reports said, preemptively fled the city after the drive began, worried they would be picked up by the police at any moment. Between 200 and 250 people have been detained in the verification drive and ten were identified as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, said Sandeep Kumar, a public relations officer for the Gurgaon police department. He said claims of people fleeing the city were 'rumors.' In interviews with a dozen people across four Indian states, in neighborhoods that have been raided by the police, Muslim and Hindu Bengali speakers said they had become scared of being caught in the government's crackdown. Avjit Paul, 18, who is Hindu, said he moved to Gurgaon from his home state of West Bengal to work as a cleaner. When his slum was raided, he said, he was detained for five days by the city police, despite showing the officers a state ID card. He was released from police custody only after social workers offered the police additional documents to support his Indian nationality, he said. Millions of Indians lack documentation that could prove their citizenship. Terrified of being detained again, Mr. Paul fled Gurgaon and returned to West Bengal. 'I'm afraid to be caught again like this, because I speak Bengali,' said Mr. Paul, who is now jobless. Rights groups and lawyers have criticized the government's immigration crackdown for a lack of due process. They say that the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., has used April's act of terrorism as a pretext to deepen a systemic campaign of oppression against the country's Muslims. Across Indian states led by the B.J.P., thousands of purportedly Rohingya or Bangladeshi Muslims have been rounded up since the attack. At least 6,500 people were detained in Gujarat, 2,000 in Kashmir and about 250 in Rajasthan, according to the police in each state. 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Trump sends military after the cartels and it's long overdue
On Friday, Aug. 8, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military into action against Mexican and other Latin American drug cartels, taking an anticipated step after declaring these violent groups to be foreign terrorist organizations less than a month into his second term. Sending the military to our southern border, and potentially beyond, is a much-needed step for national security. Because the problem is worse than most Americans realize. Evidence shows that corrupt Mexican military and law enforcement officials are aiding the cartels on U.S. soil. Trump has succeeded in securing the border where former President Joe Biden failed — unless failure was the objective. But securing the border is about more than stemming illegal entrance into America — it also encompasses interdicting deadly drugs and preventing or catching criminals, terrorists and hostile agents from entering, as well. From May to July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released no illegal immigrants from the border to the nation's interior. In 2024, over the same three-month period, Biden released 212,000 illegal aliens into the interior with a simple promise to report to an immigration judge at some point. Most didn't bother to report and simply disappeared. Border security isn't just an immigration problem — it's a national security imperative. Six years ago, the Texas Public Policy Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request with DHS for reports of Mexican military or law enforcement operating on U.S. soil or in U.S. airspace. The DHS responded in July 2025, after the Biden administration suppressed the response for years. We carefully reviewed 190 pages of Serious Incident Reports that detailed Mexican incursions into America over the six-year period of 2014 to 2019, covering the last three years of the Obama administration and the first three years of the first Trump administration. The reports detailed 78 separate incidents, of which 39 appeared significant and 39 benign. The latter included police in hot pursuit of suspects, or training aircraft taking off from airports close to the border and briefly straying into U.S. airspace. The remaining 39 reports indicated something more troubling: Mexican authorities purposefully violating U.S. territory, likely in corrupt service of the Mexican drug and human trafficking cartels. Of particular interest, of the 39 incidents confirmed on U.S. territory, only four happened during the night. That only one in 10 incidents happened during the cover of darkness appeared odd. Of this, Ammon Blair, a colleague and former Border Patrol agent, told me that, "The cartels owned the night," he went on to remark that nighttime was "Gotaway Central," referring to those whom the Border Patrol saw or had evidence of, but did not apprehend. This means that there could have been hundreds of instances where either the Mexican military or law enforcement crossed the border under cover of darkness to aid the cartels, but that the lack of a positive ID prevented DHS from logging the incursion as being by Mexican government personnel. Further, Border Patrol's rules of engagement are very risk-adverse. If it's determined that a heavily armed force is operating in the area, Border Patrol teams — often just two agents — are ordered to pull back. Blair told me of an incident where he and his partner, armed only with handguns, were urgently ordered back to their vehicles. They were told that national intelligence methods had picked up radio traffic that indicated that a Mexican army squad, "Has you in their sights." Ten with rifles against two with sidearms are not good odds. But that was then. Today, after significant investments initiated during the first Trump administration and boosted under the One Big Beautiful bill, both Customs and Border Protection at our ports of entry, and Border Patrol at points in between, have better technology. Autonomous Surveillance Towers with night thermal technology and aerostat surveillance balloons provide far better nighttime coverage than was the case six years ago. Border security isn't just an immigration problem — it's a national security imperative. That said, not every property owner along the border will allow a tower packed with sensors on their property, leaving dead spaces in ravines and low spots uncovered. About one-third of cameras are broken at any given time. And there are still only about two Border Patrol agents covering each mile of the southern border. Unfortunately, in war, the enemy gets a vote. In 190 pages of reports covering six years there was only one mentions of a quadcopter flown by Mexican police over U.S. soil. Last year, DHS reported that 60,000 drones were sighted within a few hundred yards of the border — that's 330 a day. Whether employed by the cartels or Mexican officials, these drones serve two main purposes: counter surveillance — figuring out where Border Patrol, law enforcement or military personnel are; and area denial — Border Patrol won't fly its helicopters in areas where drones are operating. Even today, we still don't know the reason for the crash of a National Guard reconnaissance helicopter with the loss of three aboard in March 2024 near Rio Grande City, Texas, on the border. And now there are reports that not only have Mexican cartels sent people to fight in Ukraine to learn drone tactics, but they've also deployed fiber optic-controlled drones in Mexico. These drones are resistant to jamming. Second to the threat from China, the rise of the Mexican narco-state on our southern border presents a grave national security challenge, one that DHS can't handle alone — they lack the personnel, the equipment, the training and the doctrine to do so. Instead, only targeted military operations can interdict armed incursions into America — something the U.S. military was built to do. Applying the lessons of past conflicts, using the military to ambush and capture armed border infiltrators will raise the costs of violating American sovereignty while sending a powerful message to Mexico City.
