A Shanghai state-backed firm has begun manufacturing immersion deep-ultraviolet lithography machines — the workhorse tool below EUV that TSMC and others use for most production nodes. It is the first time China has built this class of equipment domestically at scale.
Federal prosecutors charged an Atlanta man with obstruction after his GrapheneOS phone wiped itself during a border search. The device's duress and auto-wipe behavior is a documented feature, which is the crux of the dispute over whether anything was obstructed.
Willison walks through Matt Lenhard's investigation into the gray market for discounted LLM tokens: resellers pool API keys — many obtained through fraud or free-tier abuse — behind proxies and undercut list pricing, mostly out of China.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is moving to drop the decades-old principle of keeping radiation exposure as low as reasonably achievable, arguing low doses are less harmful than the current model assumes. Health physicists dispute the science behind the change.