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TheGeoAffairs : Founded by IIT Madras alumni Akash Ramdas and Advaith Sridhar, has raised $9 million in seed funding to accelerate the discovery and integration of advanced materials for semiconductor chips. The investment round was led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, and prominent angel investors including Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, and Thariq Shihipar. The deep-tech enterprise leverages specialized artificial intelligence agents to compress months of complex physical research into days, targeting one of the global semiconductor industry’s most critical operational bottlenecks: thermal management and power efficiency in high-performance computing hardware. Modern graphic processing units and artificial intelligence hardware generate massive amounts of heat during complex workloads, with heat fluxes reaching levels comparable to space shuttle re-entry temperatures. This severe thermal output restricts processing performance, force...

Tata Consultancy Services has responded to security alerts claiming the potential exposure of certain employee-related records, clarifying that its core client operations and customer databases remain completely secure and unaffected. India’s premier IT services provider confirmed that the information flagged in recent threat-intelligence warnings appears to be limited to basic, non-sensitive worker details dating back more than four years. Addressing concerns over the incident, the tech major revealed that defensive measures designed to block the specific attack vector used in this attempt have already been active within its infrastructure for over two years. Comprehensive technical reviews show these cybersecurity protocols remain fully operational and effective, ensuring that internal enterprise networks and client-facing systems were never compromised.  While specific origins or timelines regarding the threat alerts were not detailed, the company emphasized that its security te...

TheGeoAffairs : Shares of One97 Communications, the parent entity operating the Paytm brand, experienced a massive rally on Monday, surging 10 percent to hit ₹1,584.95 per share after global brokerage firm Bernstein significantly upgraded its target price to ₹2,200. This revised target marks a major milestone for the Noida-based fintech giant, representing the first time since its initial public offering in November 2021 that a prominent research firm has set a price target above its original IPO issue price of ₹2,150. Driven by intense buying interest, the stock touched a new 52-week high of ₹1,594.80 during intraday trading on the exchanges. The dramatic bullish upgrade from Bernstein stems primarily from expectations surrounding the potential reintroduction of a Merchant Discount Rate on Unified Payments Interface transactions. In its latest research note, the brokerage incorporated UPI MDR into its base-case scenario starting from FY28 onward, projecting that charging merchants on ...

TheGeoAffairs : A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia early Monday morning, sending shockwaves across the country and triggering widespread evacuations in major urban centers. The seismic event occurred at 7:34 AM local time, with its epicenter located roughly five kilometers east of San José del Palmar in the Pacific coastal province of Chocó. According to reports from the United States Geological Survey and Colombia's national geological service, the quake originated at a depth of nearly 79 kilometers. Because the rupture occurred deep underground, the most destructive surface forces were cushioned, preventing catastrophic collapse in heavily populated metros while still causing significant local structural damage. The force of the earthquake was felt intensely across several major Colombian cities. Residents in the capital city of Bogotá ran out into the streets in pajamas as emergency sirens echoed through the air, though municipal officials later reported...