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Memo: online fast fashion retailer Shein is exploring becoming a marketplace for third-party merchants and plans to diversify its supply chain away from China (Keith Zhai/Wall Street Journal)

Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Memo: online fast fashion retailer Shein is exploring becoming a marketplace for third-party merchants and plans to diversify its supply chain away from China  —  The fast-growing company founded in China has also begun diversifying its supply chain to Europe, according to memo to investors

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A look at Europe’s chip self-sufficiency plans, aided by ASML and others; SEMI estimates 10 new facilities in Europe by 2025, compared to 21 in Taiwan (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A look at Europe’s chip self-sufficiency plans, aided by ASML and others; SEMI estimates 10 new facilities in Europe by 2025, compared to 21 in Taiwan  —  On the edge of a tranquil forest an hour’s drive from Stuttgart, where hiking trails snake through the trees and across gently rolling hills …

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The second-gen Apple Pencil is $40 off today

Right now, you can buy the second-gen Apple Pencil for $89.99 instead of $129.99. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holidays are quickly approaching, and if you haven’t started shopping for gifts yet, you should probably stop procrastinating ASAP. That’s not necessarily because you’re running out of time — though you

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The CFTC sues Sam Bankman-Fried on fraud charges, alleging FTX “misappropriated customer funds”, violated its TOS, extended Alameda unlimited credit, and more (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The CFTC sues Sam Bankman-Fried on fraud charges, alleging FTX “misappropriated customer funds”, violated its TOS, extended Alameda unlimited credit, and more  —  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda Research for violations of federal commodities laws.

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The Southern District of New York charges SBF with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, money laundering, and more (CNBC)

CNBC: The Southern District of New York charges SBF with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, money laundering, and more  —  – Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed eight seperate charges against disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried …

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All About USB-C: Cable Types

USB-C cables and connectors: these are controversial topics, and rightfully so – I don’t want to pull any punches. I will also show you that things don’t have to be that bad for you, as long as you’re willing to apply a few tricks and adjust your expectations. Wild West of Wiring You might have

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Roll Your Own WiFi Driver For the Pico W

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a handy little microcontroller that has become a widespread addition to many hackers’ workbench. The Pico W has a CYW4342W module (just like the Pi Zero W) to add WiFi capabilities and [Jeremy Bentham] ported his bare-metal WiFi driver to the Pico W. The CYW43438 is an SDIO interface, so

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Officials and studies: US spy agencies have been slow to adapt to open source intelligence, falling behind China, which has the largest and most focused effort (Warren P. Strobel/Wall Street Journal)

Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal: Officials and studies: US spy agencies have been slow to adapt to open source intelligence, falling behind China, which has the largest and most focused effort  —  China outpaces efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to harness power of publicly available data  —  The U.S. Strategy to Catch Up

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