Archive for January 16th, 2008
links for 2008-01-15
Posted by: amygdala on January 16, 2008
- An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more (David Cassel/The New Stack)
- The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
- Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is "revisionist history" and a bid to boost his AI company (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
- Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)
- National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
- SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech (Nikkei Asia)
- Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX (Bloomberg)
- China publishes measures to boost foreign investment in its domestic technology sector, including encouraging tech companies to raise money via bond issuance (Reuters)
- Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was in May 2020 (James Hunt/The Block)
- Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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