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Deep & Emerging Tech·August 27, 2026·1 min read

CISA says over 100 US water systems were targeted in July 2026 alone

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Internet-facing PLCs on critical infrastructure are now an active battleground, not a hypothetical risk—CISA is explicitly telling operators to pull them off the public internet. If you run any OT with cloud dashboards or remote access, treat this as a deadline to inventory exposed endpoints and add physical or VPN-only control paths.

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Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant

A $31B+ NAND buildout through 2032 is a bet that AI-era storage demand will justify decade-long capex, and that Japan will remain a core node in the memory supply chain. If you’re planning AI-heavy products, assume storage cost and availability stay strategic—lock in long-term supply and think about data locality around hubs like Kitakami.