#techindustry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techindustry, aggregated by home.social.
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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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TechJuice: Google Officially Launches Pakistan Office in Landmark Digital Expansion. “Google has formally opened its local office in Pakistan, a move Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and company officials described as a major step toward deepening technology cooperation. The inauguration took place on Tuesday when a Google delegation, led by the Global Affairs Vice President of Google Wilson L […]
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Politico: Brussels changes gear on Big Tech enforcement. “The fines against Google bring the total bill for breaches of the Digital Markets Act to €1.6 billion — a sum that pales in comparison with the antitrust fines of yesteryear. The EU’s highest court recently upheld a €4.1 billion abuse-of-dominance fine against Google dating back to 2018 — an era when Brussels resorted to brute […]
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Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
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Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back
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The supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI era — as privately held compute clusters are built, running HPL becomes a distraction
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SMIC posts record $3B quarter and hikes wafer prices — US sanctions hand Chinese foundry a captive AI market
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Amazon delivery drone dumps Texas woman's parcel straight into her swimming pool — viral video surfaces the same week the company announces 500-city Prime Air expansion
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@bignose Living in the states that makes me happy to see and all the more depressed that we can’t seem to get solar moving here. I keep thinking with all these data centers they’ll WANT to ramp up renewable energy since the grid can’t handle it. Somehow seemingly nope.
#renewableenergy #solar #solarenergy #datacenters #techindustry
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Samsung raises advanced foundry prices by up to 15% as AI demand fills its 4nm lines, report claims — Chinese customers accepting the largest hikes
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China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou
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Samsung's fab roadmaps examined — Taylor, Pyeongtaek, and the yield woes behind a $16.5 billion Tesla deal
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsungs-fab-roadmap-examined
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Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water'
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Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
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Ajinomoto reportedly cuts critical chip packaging film supply to China by 30% as domestic substitutes race to qualify — ABF restriction comes following Beijing's rare earth export curbs
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AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country's AI windfall 'can be shared by all,' 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge finance $7.4B dividend
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Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for 'obscure' Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github
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White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions
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Associated Press: Maryland tax court voids digital ad tax, orders refunds to Apple, Google and Peacock TV. “A Maryland state tax court has struck down the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising and ordered state officials to repay the tax money already collected from big tech firms.”
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DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm's 'Chinese military company' designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines classified evidence for the first time
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AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
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China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD
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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records
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Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity
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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does
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Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs — company responds with guidance, removes malicious package
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Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition'
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Associated Press: States take Meta to trial in California in the biggest fight yet over social media harms to children. “Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion, plus changes to […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/17/associated-press-states-take-meta-to-trial-in-california-in-the-biggest-fight-yet-over-social-media-harms-to-children/ -
America's largest grid wants to cut power to new data centers first during shortages — 50MW-plus data centers must bring their own electricity generation to avoid shutoffs
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Ars Technica: A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals. “The story of how [Claire Stapleton] went from enthusiastic cheerleader to proactive dissident, and the many lessons she learned along the way, are featured in her new book, Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech—A Biting Memoir of Twelve Years Inside Google.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/17/ars-technica-a-google-insider-spills-the-tea-on-how-the-company-forsook-its-founding-ideals/