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DrunkenTerror writes:
Donald Trump announced plans Monday night to impose massive tariffs on Taiwan-made chips in an attempt to incentivize companies to relocate production to the United States. On the one hand, this could reduce American companies' reliance on Taiwan in general and TSMC in particular. On the other hand, building a semiconductor fab takes three to four years, so the effect of production moving to the US due to tariffs may not be felt for some time.
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DrunkenTerror writes:
SK hynix this week announced plans to build its advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. The move can be considered as a milestone both for the memory maker and the U.S., as this is the first advanced memory packaging facility in the country and the company's first significant manufacturing operation in America. The facility will be used to build next-generation types of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks when it begins operations in 2028.
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DrunkenTerror writes:
Over on RollingStone.com, Anil Dash writes about how a new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century:Across today’s internet, the stores that deliver all the apps on our phones are cracking open, the walls between social media platforms are coming down as the old networks fail, the headlong rush towards AI is making our search engines and work apps weirder (and often worse!). But amidst it all, the human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent. We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet’s current users have never seen before.
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DrunkenTerror writes:
Reports indicated the optional update KB5012643 is causing various apps to crash. The problem involves an interaction between the update and .Net 3.5. At this time it’s unclear which apps are affected by the issue, leaving uninstallation as the "only" viable solution.
“Affected apps are using certain optional components in .NET Framework 3.5, such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WWF) components.”
This update also broke Safe Mode. Microsoft says when users booted into 'Safe Mode without networking' users might see the screen flicker. Per MS, “Components that rely on explorer.exe, such as File Explorer, the Start menu, and the taskbar, can be affected and appear unstable."
