🇯🇵 A 79-year-old Japanese woman drove 2.2 KILOMETERS with a man clinging to the hood of her car. Her excuse? She was running late for a hospital appointment. It started when Chizuko Higashi accidentally bumped the man's parked car with her door. He confronted her, stood in front of her car, and she drove off anyway. For roughly 8 minutes, the 56-year-old hung on as she drove through the streets of Kashihara, near Osaka. He finally climbed off when she stopped at a red light. Running one would've been irresponsible, after all. She was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. She denies intending to kill him. She just had places to be. Source: NNN / Writer: Julie

Rapidus, Japan’s state-backed chip foundry start-up, expects US hyperscalers and ASIC designers to be key early customers for 2nm mass production when it begins in the 2nd half of 2027 at its Chitose, Japan fab, media report, citing Chairman Tetsuro Higashi. Initial products will be AI and high-performance computing (HPC) chips. Rapidus aims to shorten the design-to-finished wafer cycle time and offer integrated advanced packaging to compete with TSMC.