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Proof: How Taiwan’s ‘silicon shield’ has kept it safe from China, indispensable to US in age of AI

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e1630ba2f843bcfb08e9e1d44ce9edaf69f131c2237c25e79cdd67c1b46edbb8

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e1630ba2f843.json prints e1630ba2f843bcfb08e9e1d44ce9edaf69f131c2237c25e79cdd67c1b46edbb8. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
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3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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