Nvidia prepares shipment of 82,000 AI GPUs to China as chip war lines blur — H200 shipments with 25% tax to begin as US loosens restrictions

Nvidia is preparing to deliver up to 80,000 H200 AI chips to China before the Lunar New Year holiday, marking the first time this level of silicon would be legally exported to the country since 2022.
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Ten former Samsung employees arrested for industrial espionage charges for giving China chipmaker 10nm tech — executives and researchers allegedly leaked DRAM technology to China-based CXMT, resulting in trillions of losses in Korean Won

10 former Samsung employees are accused of leaking Samsung’s 10-nm DRAM technology to CXMT, allegedly allowing the latter to achieve technological breakthroughs on stolen information.
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U.S. FCC bans foreign-made drones from DJI, others — DJI to be heavily affected by the announcement, with many American drone pilots up in arms due to lack of viable alternatives

FCC’s announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S.

Intel’s Fab 52 is bigger and better equipped than TSMC’s Arizona facilities — Intel’s production volume dwarfs TSMC’s operations in the U.S.

Intel’s Fab 52 in Arizona is currently the most advanced chip production facility in America, but it has yet to reach its full 40,000-wafer capacity due to low 18A yields.
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Interpol-led cybercrime crackdown results in 574 arrests in 19 African nations, decrypts six ransomware variants — Operation Sentinel disrupts rings that caused $21 million in losses, recovers $3 million

Conducted between late October and November, Operation Sentinel saw international law enforcement agencies shut down cybercrime infrastructure, decrypt ransomware variants, and prevent large-scale financial losses across t…

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US smart home company accused of rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras — Nebraska AG to sue Resideo over selling banned security cameras

Resideo sued by Nebraska AG over rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras

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1,000 computers taken offline in Romanian water management authority hack — ransomware takes Bitlocker-encrypted systems down

No group has claimed the attack yet, and thankfully, water is still flowing in Romania.

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Chinese fabs are reportedly upgrading older ASML DUV lithography chipmaking machines — secondary channels and independent engineers used to soup up Twinscan NXT series

Chinese fabs are quietly extending the useful life and performance of older ASML deep ultraviolet lithography systems by upgrading key subsystems, as Beijing pushes to sustain advanced chip output.
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China’s premier GPU maker Biren kicks off Hong Kong IPO — GPU startups vying for Nvidia’s crown race to fund AI chip development

Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion.
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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers ‘no longer have an accurate time reference’

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus.
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