As Typhoon Champi moves toward Taiwan, classes and work were suspended across most of the country Friday, with more than 2,000 people evacuated from mountainous areas and hundreds of flights canceled. A security flaw in the widely used PHP programming language has triggered emergency shutdowns worldwide, prompting Taiwan to call for urgent updates to some 28,000 websites. And Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Europe to accelerate AI development at the GTC conference in Berlin, stressing the need for more infrastructure and stronger security measures. Plus:
- The US has banned two devices from its market over concerns about Chinese-made surveillance chips.
- Photographer Marie Bell is named a finalist in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for her photo of a Formosan blue magpie carrying a coat hanger through Taipei.
- A Taiwanese duo wins the country's historic first gold in women's doubles table tennis at the Asian Para Games.