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TSMC plans to increase the price of 8-inch wafers by 6% and 12-inch wafers by 3% from January 2023. Taiwan’s “Economic Daily” previously reported that TSMC’s largest customer, Apple, rejected the price increase proposal, but now it is reported that Apple has agreed to the price increase . TSMC makes A-series chips for Apple’s iPhones […]

Kaspersky security researchers have discovered a malicious Tor browser spreading through popular Chinese YouTube channels . The channel has more than 180,000 subscribers, and the related video has been viewed more than 64,000 times. The video was uploaded in January 2022, and Kaspersky’s investigation shows that the earliest victims appeared in March 2022. Security researchers

The White House on Tuesday released guidelines aimed at protecting personal data from misuse by artificial intelligence algorithms. It is not binding and does not include enforcement measures. The guidelines identify “five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence.”

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, chairman of the VideoLAN Foundation, a French non-profit organization that develops VLC players, formally sent a letter to the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, requesting an explanation for the blocking of its domain name https://www.videolan.org/ . Virtual hearing, if the Indian government rejects the request it is ready to take legal

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to American scientist Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Danish scientist Morten Meldal and American scientist K. Barry Sharpless for “developments in click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry, click chemistry. In this chemistry, molecular building blocks

Elon Musk has proposed closing the Twitter acquisition on terms he initially agreed to , a sudden retreat that could end his months-long fight to get out of the $44 billion deal. One of Musk’s lawyers communicated the proposal to Twitter’s lawyers on Monday, according to a copy of a two-sentence letterfiled with the SEC

Astronomers have produced the first map of the Milky Way’s graveyard of dead stars. The study was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Large stars collapse into black holes and neutron stars at the end of their lives, and they produce powerful explosions that are asymmetrical, and some of their

Trees can mitigate the effects of climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, and trees are changing in size after absorbing more carbon dioxide. It may not be obvious for a year or two, but today’s trees compared to trees of several decades

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to French scientist Alain Aspect, American scientist John F. Clauser and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing violations of Bell’s inequality and pioneering quantum information science” “. John Clauser developed the inequality proposed by John Bell in the 1960s to conduct an

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider when websites are responsible for content posted by their users , following a series of allegations by families of terrorism victims that social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were partly responsible for attacks by the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS). case. The Supreme Court agreed to

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed on October 3 that its Mars orbiter, Mangalyaan, had lost contact and could not be recovered, with the mission over. Mangalyaan was launched in November 2013 and arrived in Mars orbit in September 2014. It was mainly used as a technology demonstration with a design life of 6

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently issued a partial mobilization order to recruit citizens with military experience to join the army. Some Russian citizens responded by fleeing, others fleeing across the border, and others resorting to illegal means to try to buy documents unfit for military service , opening the door to deception. Fraudsters peddled documents

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.0 on the kernel mailing list. Major new features include: improved ACPI processing and power management; a series of io_uring improvements, support for XFS filesystem buffered writes, Zero-copy network transfers, io_uring-based block driver mechanism, runtime verification subsystem; and more. More can be found in LWN Profiles 1 and