Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil

SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI datacenters at an historic scale? And the Catch 22 that Intel is in. They need CHIPS Act money, but can their troubles mean the CHIPS Act money shouldn’t be spent on them?

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Links:

• Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator (Reuters)
• No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say. (Washington Post)
• Microsoft to announce ‘next phase of Copilot’ on September 16th (The Verge)
• YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel (ArsTechnica)
• Nvidia Gets DOJ Subpoena in Escalating Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg)
• Two AI Developers Are Plotting $125 Billion Supercomputers (The Information)
• Exclusive: Intel manufacturing business suffers setback as Broadcom tests disappoint (Reuters)
• Intel’s Money Woes Throw Biden Team’s Chip Strategy Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)

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