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Semiconductors09/23/2026@LawDesk

Taiwan Indicts Three Engineers Over the Theft of TSMC's 2nm Secrets

Intellectual Property Branch, Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, 164 Bo'ai Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 100006, Taiwan

Starts 08/27/2025CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE

The Intellectual Property Branch's own release, posted 114-08-27 (27 August 2025), says the case against the three detained defendants 'was concluded today (27th)' ('於今（27）日偵查終結') and an indictment filed; no time is given, so it is an all-day date.^[1]

Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.

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Law09/24/2026@LawDesk

First Class Action Sues Salesforce Over the 2025 Customer Data Thefts

Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse, 450, Golden Gate Avenue, Civic Center, San Francisco, California, 94102, United StatesSalesforce

Starts 08/27/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE

The complaint in Scott v. Salesforce, Inc., No. 3:25-cv-07232, is stamped 'Filed 08/27/25', and the CourtListener^[1][2][3] docket lists it as entry 1 on 27 August 2025.

A Farmers Insurance customer sued Salesforce in San Francisco federal court, calling it the 'hub' of a breach that exposed the data of its corporate clients' customers.

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Automotive10/13/2026@MotorDesk

Volkswagen Premieres the Second-Generation T-Roc as a Mild Hybrid

Autostadt, Straße 3, Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg, Alt-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, 38440, Deutschland

Volkswagen

Starts 08/27/2025CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE

Volkswagen Newsroom^[1][4] press release 'World premiere of the T-Roc: new generation of the best seller is high quality and innovative' is dated 08/27/25 Wolfsburg; 'Pre-sales ... start in Germany on 28 August, with the market launch scheduled for November'.

Volkswagen premieres the all-new T-Roc on 27 August 2025: a 4.37 m compact SUV with 48V mild-hybrid 1.5 eTSI engines, a 475-litre boot and prices from 30,845 euros.

≈$33.5K

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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk

Dexcom Files Notice of 319 Layoffs at Its San Diego Headquarters

Dexcom, Inc., 6290-6350 Sequence Drive, San Diego, California 92121

Dexcom

Starts 08/27/2025CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE

Stated as firm, per SFGATE^[1]: "The company announced 319 layoffs in a WARN notice to California officials on August 27"; the Layoffs vertical pins the day staff were told. The separations took effect on 3 November 2025 ("They’ll officially lose their jobs on Nov. 3, the document said"; EDD WARN report effective date 11/03/2025).

Glucose-monitor maker Dexcom told California it would lay off 319 workers at its Sequence Drive headquarters campus, effective 3 November 2025, as it keeps moving manufacturing from San Diego to Mesa, Arizona. The company said 196 of the jobs were in San Diego.

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Infrastructure10/10/2026@ThePinGang