Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning
 Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning

Taiwan officials raided Supermicro Computer’s Taiwan office on Monday, alongside the homes of six individuals and three affiliated company sites

Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists — $300,000 worth of copper wire and $1 million worth of equipment recovered outside Chicago
 Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists — $300,000 worth of copper wire and $1 million worth of equipment recovered outside Chicago

Authorities recover $1.3 million worth of data center supplies and equipment in a truck stop near Chicago. Equipment like this is a prime target for theft rings given its high value, but it’s also likely difficult to sell given its specialized nature.

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South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, amid strong government support

President Lee unveiled an 800 trillion won ($520B) public-private plan for four new Samsung and SK Hynix fabs, dwarfing the US CHIPS Act tenfold.

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Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron sued over alleged DRAM price fixing amid record memory costs — lawsuit claims coordinated HBM shift was cover to curtail DDR3 and DDR4 production

Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron were sued on June 25th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Imec’s 2026 roadmap details 0.3nm nodes by 2038, CFET transistors become viable at 0.7nm — company redefines Moore’s Law as cell sizes gain importance for density
 Imec’s 2026 roadmap details 0.3nm nodes by 2038, CFET transistors become viable at 0.7nm — company redefines Moore’s Law as cell sizes gain importance for density

As CPP shrinking stalls, chipmakers find a new way to increase transistor density. Imec foresees 0.3nm in 2038, CFET insertion in 2038, HLSI era.

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Pong game recompiles its own source code every frame — winning entry at IOCCC29 was generated by a custom compiler

Jonah Uellenberg won the Ping Pong Prize at the 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest earlier this month, with a version of Pong that recompiles its own source code on every frame.

AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via ‘clean’ GitHub repositories — Mozilla’s 0din team shows how Claude Code can be exploited by its own helpfulness

Claude and other AI agents fooled into running malware with just a minimal GitHub repository — ask the bot to initialize the project and you get hacked

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Apple reportedly lobbies Uncle Sam for access to Chinese memory chips — tech giant allegedly wants to buy from blacklisted CXMT
 Apple reportedly lobbies Uncle Sam for access to Chinese memory chips — tech giant allegedly wants to buy from blacklisted CXMT

Following a historic price hike, the Financial Times reports that Apple is lobbying in Washington to secure approval to buy cheaper RAM from CXMT. The manufacturer is currently designated as a Chinese military company, but is not entirely banned by the White House.

Onsemi buying cash-strapped Synaptics in $7 billion all-stock deal — smart power meets edge AI hardware

Onsemi and Synaptics to merge in a bid to build comprehensive platforms for robotics, physical AI applications.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6 gets the same banhammer treatment as Anthropic’s Mythos from the federal government — source says that Washington cautioned OpenAI against releasing the model without receiving approval

The U.S. government wants dibs on U.S. AI labs’ most powerful models, asking for access 30 days before they go public. OpenAI is voluntarily complying with the President’s executive order but wants ‘to achieve a more sustainable approach for future releases.’

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