Erin Brockovich starts tracking AI data centers, calls on affected communities to submit issues — website shows more than 2,700 reports from across the US raising various concerns

Erin Brockovich, who made her name making a case against PG&E in the ’90s that resulted in a $333 million settlement, is now looking at the impact of data center developments on communities and is recording community repor…

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China adds homegrown AI chips to ‘secure and reliable’ procurement list for the first time — nine options added as move away from Nvidia continues

The certifications are valid for three years and were issued jointly by the China Information Technology Security Evaluation Centre and the National Secrecy Science and Technology Evaluation Centre.
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Prototype of the ‘world’s first fluid circuit board’ can be physically rewired in less than a minute, startup claims — could make hardware iteration 1,000 times faster than traditional PCB

A deep tech startup has come out of stealth brandishing a prototype of what it claims to be ‘the world’s first fluid circuit board.’
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SpaceX admits it can’t find enough chips for orbital AI yet, requires ‘significantly more than are currently available to us’ — firm’s risk factors in IPO paperwork also says ambitious TeraFab project may not be successful

SpaceX warns that it may not secure enough AI hardware to achieve its orbital AI ambitions even with supply from TeraFab. Also, Intel and Tesla may leave the TeraFab project.
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Taiwan authorities arrest three on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia chips to China — operation allegedly used Japan as transshipment point before forwarding banned Supermicro servers to Hong Kong

Reports say that the three individuals successfully shipped a batch of banned Nvidia AI chips in Super Micro servers to China from Taiwan to Hong Kong via Japan using falsified documentation.
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Samsung chip workers vote to accept $340,000 average bonus, ending months-long strike threat — resentment over deal has slowed down Samsung foundry division

The agreement allocates 10.5% of Samsung’s semiconductor division operating profit as stock-based bonuses.

Microsoft’s GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company ‘ruined their life’ — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

Microsoft’s GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

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IBM spins off America’s first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding — newly-minted ‘Anderon’ foundry to offer 300mm quantum wafer fab and manufacturing services

Headquartered in Albany, New York, Anderon will operate a 300mm quantum wafer fab and offer its manufacturing services to competing quantum hardware vendors.
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Samsung $400,000 worker bonuses near approval after clearing legal challenge — non-chip employees in line for just $4,000 launch last-minute bid to scupper deal with union

The Suwon District Court rejected the injunction filed by five employees from Samsung’s Device eXperience division.
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Chinese AI experts in private firms now required to secure approval before international travel — Beijing enforces policy to secure top-tier talent, expands measures beyond government

The Chinese government has imposed travel restrictions on key AI experts, requiring them to secure an approval before they can leave the country. Beijing is reportedly doing this to secure talent, which it now considers as…

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