Big Tech eyes glacier-strewn Patagonia for building mega AI data centers — region offers 17,300 glaciers, coldness, and cheap energy, but fiber lines are scarce

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hotaru251 TerryLaze said: Global warming, here I come….. already been here for a long time. this will ofc speed up glacial melting in area (even if minute amount…heat does speed up melting even if its only increase o…

Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can’t break America’s monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chip

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Pacific Quartz has supplied Lam Research and Tokyo Electron with ultra-high-purity quartz consumables, such as LPCVD diffusion tubes, wafer boats, quartz ingots, quartz plates, and high-purity quartz tubes, since 2019–20…

Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition preorders open on Amazon for $519.99 — here’s your last shot to grab the limited-edition console at MSRP

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Major U.S. retailers, including Target, Best Buy, and GameStop, were the first to enable preorders for the Switch 2 The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition , which instantly sold out. It did not take long for scalpe…

TSMC, Samsung, and Intel shore up support with ASML to deploy larger High-NA EUV photomasks — 6×12-inch photomask transition may take years despite unified effo

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Perhaps the biggest changes would be required from ASML. Its High-NA EUV scanners would need modifications or a redesign to accept, clamp, move, and position the substantially larger reticles with the extreme precision r…

OpenAI’s breakthrough solution for the elusive Navier-Stokes problem overshadowed by plagiarism controversy — researcher says OpenAI scraped Codex session and i

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Buckmaster then asked when the initial prompt was issued, and OpenAI’s response of “in the past few days” did not arrive until “some time” passed. He proceeded to ask if the model “had been trained on, or had access to, …