China has expanded its export controls on rare-earth elements, adding new items to a growing list of restricted materials and processing technologies. The updated rules, which take effect in December, cover not just elements like holmium, thulium, erbium, and ytterbium, but also the technical know-how around how they’re turned into magnets.

In a mirror of U.S. semiconductor export policy, Chinese officials framed the move as a national security imperative and

Last week, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attempted to urge Taiwan to agree to a 50% - 50% arrangement, under which chips used in devices for the American market would be produced equally in both countries. The ultimate plan of the current administration is to boost domestic semiconductor production to more than 40% by the end of President Donald Trump's current term.

As observed by officials in Taiwan and analysts, the proposal lacks a workable definition, overstates

Valve has been known to be working on a new virtual reality headset for at least four years now, as a follow-up to the mildly successful Valve Index , which launched in 2019. In 2021, we first learned that it was codenamed Deckard, and now, reports state that this new device is potentially very close to its release. According to Upload VR , Valve's Deckard headset has entered mass production, intending to ship up to 40

The legendary Microsoft developer behind Task Manager , ZIP folders , and Windows Product Activation (WPA) has revealed the true story behind FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. Some of you oldsters out there might be familiar with this code, but even if not, it is probably recognizable as some kind of software key. This garbled alphanumeric string actually represents the first valid Windows XP volume licensing key that fell into the hands of

Major banking institutions can't agree on whether the AI industry is already a bubble or if we're not quite there yet. Both the Bank of England (BOE) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued warnings this Wednesday that there was a risk of a sharp market correction akin to the dotcom era crash if AI investor mood turned sour. They highlighted soaring gold prices as an indicator that investors were hedging their bets, according to CNBC . Goldman Sachs is

The U.S. government has finally granted Nvidia an export license to ship tens of billions of dollars' worth of leading-edge AI GPUs to the United Arab Emirates, initiating the first stage of a large bilateral technology partnership, reports Bloomberg . However, none of the AI accelerators shipped to the UAE will be destined for Abu Dhabi-based AI outfit G42, but will be operated by American companies that have datacenters in the UAE.

The authorization follows a May agreement allowing

Discord has spoken out after a recent breach of a "third-party service," thought likely to be Zendesk's support system, stating that around 70,000 government ID photos may have been exposed; rather than the 2.1 million that hackers claim. It also made it clear that Discord itself wasn't breached, and that regardless of what the hackers claim, it won't be paying out any ransom demands, according to BleepingComputer .

The breach

Saying that AI is everywhere is an axiom by now, but a question that begets answering is "how much, exactly?" That's what the Financial Times (FT) set out to discover , by collecting data and interviewing execs from popular consumer-facing AI services. While most findings are expected, there are a handful of quite surprising pieces of information, including but not limited to the growth of adoption and shifts in usage patterns. As a minor spoiler, the rate