YMTC’s third Wuhan fab clears Beijing’s 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths

China’s YMTC is expected to start operations at its Phase 3 Wuhan fab late this year as the first leading-edge memory plant built to comply with Beijing’s unwritten 50% tooling requirement.
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China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters — state hails successful trial and hints at deployment readiness

China has successfully tested a “deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator” that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters.
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Iran reportedly bought an in-orbit Chinese satellite to target US military sites in the Middle East — purchase agreement included ongoing ground control services based in China

Leaked documents allegedly show that the IRGC Aerospace Force is using a Chinese satellite to observe U.S. bases in the Middle East and use it for targeting American assets with drones and missiles.
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Our lifestyle tech colleagues at Tom’s Guide have overhauled their site for smarter shopping — more video and access to experts make it ‘the biggest relaunch in our history’

Our tech colleagues over at Tom’s Guide just relaunched their homepage, with destination-focused features like a dedicated live feed for news and expert reactions, AI-infused shopping and upgrading tools, and more short-fo…

Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — ‘Ising’ said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding

Nvidia has announced Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum processor calibration and real-time error correction decoding that claims to offer substantial speedups over existing methods.
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos might be the best overall AI model for cybersecurity, but cheaper models can attain similar results, research shows — cross-examination of the frontier model raises questions on uptime and reliability

Anthropic’s Mythos might be the best cybersecurity AI ever, but it’s not the only one and it may well be the most expensive, raising questions about how useful it actually is, when weighed against the competition.
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Nvidia quashes rumor it’s planning to purchase a major PC manufacturer — says that it’s ‘not engaged in discussions to acquire any PC maker’

Nvidia said that it wasn’t in talks with another PC manufacturer to acquire it, despite rumors saying that it has been discussing the possibility since 2024.
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China’s premiere memory-maker YMTC plans two additional Wuhan fabs using homegrown chipmaking tools — Phase 3 crosses 50% domestic tooling threshold

China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies plans to build two fabs beyond the Phase 3 plant that it’s due to complete in Wuhan this year.
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News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models

Many major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine’s crawler from archiving their pages, despite using the tool for their reporting. Their primary concern is that AI tech companies are breaking fair use and training …

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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself — Meta insiders claim 3D photoreal animated Zuck will be able to engage with employees on his behalf

The very top job at Meta may periodically be delegated to an AI replica of Mark Zuckerberg. Will anyone notice?

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