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A paper by Zeiss and ASML engineers sets out a 0.75 NA Hyper NA EUV tool that reuses today's light source. Reuters says it is about a decade away.

Raheim Hamilton, co-creator of the Empire Market dark web site, gets 40 years and a $5m fine and agrees to forfeit about 1,230 bitcoin, DOJ says.

China's 9 October policy guidelines call for "a national blockchain network". What the official text says, what it leaves out, and what it is not.

CoinDesk reports that MARA moved about 996 BTC ($81.13m) to an address labelled Galaxy Digital. Nobody has confirmed a sale, and MARA has not commented. What the transfer does and does not show.

Four chip-supply items from 8–9 October 2026: GlobalFoundries tops out a €1.1 billion Dresden expansion and plans an "FDX Fusion" platform that still needs German approval; Lumentum's CEO tells Bloomberg its optical parts are "completely sold out" through early 2029, even after a 12-fold capacity increase in Japan; Unisem proposes a RM396 million packaging expansion in Malaysia; and AI chip-design start-up Phinity raises a $5.2 million seed. What is confirmed and what is a claim.

Thailand's SEC has issued the rules for bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds, effective 16 October 2026, though no Thai crypto ETF has launched. Separately, Bitcoin Core 32.0 is still at release candidate 3, with its final tag aimed for 10 October and a privacy fix included. What changes, and what doesn't.

GlobalFoundries has signed a multi-year $2 billion agreement to make silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging at its New York plant, with volume production expected to ramp in the first half of 2028. TSMC also reported September revenue of about NT$511.86 billion. What an interposer is and what the numbers say.

Three bitcoin business items from 8 October 2026: Block's preliminary, unaudited Q3 Cash App bitcoin figures, an EDX Markets deal to list VerifiedX's tokenised bitcoin (vBTC), and CryptoQuant's reading that miners have made no "extreme" outflows since 21 August. What each says, and what it doesn't.

Samsung's third-quarter guidance points to about ₩107.4 trillion in operating profit on ₩195 trillion of sales, up from ₩12.17 trillion a year ago, with AI data-centre memory demand credited. AWS becomes a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, with a board seat. What the numbers say and what they leave out.

Bitcoin slipped below $83,000 as Brent rose above $102 on an Iran strike-plan report, a day after about $550m of leveraged bets were liquidated. Robinhood added $25m of bitcoin to its balance sheet, and Ledger launched self-custodial bitcoin-backed loans via Morpho. What happened, what each move means, and the risks. No price predictions.