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  Airlines are struggling to reposition displaced aircraft and stranded crews after a technical failure crippled air-traffic control communications nationwide. The massive travel backlog has triggered immediate political fallout, with officials demanding federal funding to completely overhaul decades-old infrastructure. Normal operations across the country are not expected to resume until Monday at the earliest.

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• Sources: Nvidia appealed to Taiwanese officials after its manager was charged over chip smuggling, and sought advice from TSMC, which declined to get involved (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

  The US chipmaker engaged local authorities in Taiwan to address the fallout surrounding illicit semiconductor distribution. These diplomatic and industry overtures highlight the sensitive nature of international chip supply chains and regulatory compliance. However, prominent regional partners are maintaining distance from the legal matter.

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• Eclipse Mosquitto – An open source MQTT broker

  Designed to handle lightweight messaging, the server implementation provides native support across multiple protocol versions alongside dedicated client libraries and operational CLI utilities. Default configurations restrict access exclusively to local interfaces to ensure baseline security until explicit network listeners and access controls are defined. This architecture allows developers to evaluate messaging workloads locally before integrating robust authentication mechanisms for external network environment…

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