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TAG Heuer’s CarbonSpring Breakthrough: How the New TH30-00 Movement Could Change Watchmaking Forever

TAG Heuer has long sought to improve the heart of the mechanical watch – the tiny coiled spring that regulates the ticking of a movement. In 1675, Christiaan Huygens invented the balance spring, a breakthrough that made portable timekeeping possible. Three and a half centuries later, TAG Heuer decided it was time to reinvent that component for the 21st century watchonista.com watchonista.com. The result is the new TH-Carbonspring oscillator, developed over 10+ years by the TAG Heuer Lab. This isn’t just a single part, but an entire regulating organ: a balance spring made of a carbon nanocomposite, paired with a conventional balance wheel, all designed to replace the usual steel or silicon hairspring setups.

Ransomware Topples 158-Year-Old Company, Nuclear Agency Hacked, and Breaches Expose Millions – Cybersecurity Roundup (July 21–28, 2025)

UK Co-op Confirms Data Breach of 6.5 Million Members – One of the UK’s largest consumer co-ops confirmed that personal data of all 6.5 million members was stolen in an April cyberattack that caused IT outages and food shortages bleepingcomputer.com bleepingcomputer.com. Co-op CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq apologized on BBC, saying “their data was copied, and the criminals did have access to it… That is the awful part” bleepingcomputer.com. No financial data was taken, but names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and membership details were exposed. The breach began via a social engineering password reset on April 22, letting attackers grab an Active Directory database and later deploy DragonForce ransomware bleepingcomputer.com bleepingcomputer.com. Scattered Spider, a hacking group linked to attacks on retailers Marks & Spencer and Harrods, is suspected of involvement cybersecuritynews.com bleepingcomputer.com. Four suspects were arrested in the UK last week in connection with the Co-op and related attacks bleepingcomputer.com.

28 July 2025