Quick notes: Cyber enemies | Server chips...

• Sino-Pak axis on Cyber warfare: There is evidence to believe that China is assisting Pakistani hackers in their campaigns against India, notably including an operation intended to steal sensitive data from the Indian military and plant malware on Indian defense systems launched in 2019.



• 256-core server chips from Chinese Academy of Engineering: Switching from MIPS to RISC-V should not be too challenging given the architectural similarities. Meanwhile, the adoption of RISC-V means that Loongson's upcoming processors will be supported by a broad ecosystem of software and hardware, something that will inevitably make them more competitive.



• Boarding Schools for India’s Outcasts: "We used to produce about six doctors a year [from graduates]. This year we have produced 189".



• Toxic city: Hyderabad home to multiple contaminated sites



• Gardening in hot summers: How to successfully grow a garden in HOT climates




• How to learn a language and stick at it: We’re living in a golden age for free and easy-to-access language-learning content. Lexilogos is an essential website with links to courses, dictionaries and resources in more than 100 languages.



• Gautam Adani world's biggest wealth gainer so far in 2021: Adani has added $16.2 billion, taking his total net worth to $50 billion.



• Facebook + Google versus the news industry: Lobbyists for Facebook and Google threw their weight against new U.S. legislation that seeks to aid struggling news publishers by allowing them to negotiate collectively against the tech companies over revenue sharing and other deals. The bills come not long after Facebook battled with Australia over how much it should pay news publishers for their content.