Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary The US government converted $5.7bn in outstanding CHIPS Act grants to a 10% equity stake in…
Summary The Federal Trade Commission chair, Andrew Ferguson, has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after reports that Gmail was flagging Republican (GOP) fundraiser emails as spam while not doing…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says Summary The GMP open-source precision arithmetic project reports it has “fried two Ryzen 9950X CPUs” after…
Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China Summary The US Commerce Department has revoked the Verified End User (VEU) status for South Korean memory giants Samsung…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that routes…
Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned that France — and Europe — will respond strongly if any country takes actions that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. His remarks came after US…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has rejected calls from the National Association of Broadcasters and allied trade groups to expand cable-style…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained.” The change indicates Torvalds will not be…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because its decentralised software lacks…
Trump called for ‘gold-standard science’: how the NIH, NSF and others are answering Summary US federal agencies have published their initial plans in response to two executive orders from President…
