The US is restricting the sale of chips that Nvidia Corp. designed specifically for the Chinese market and curbing exports to two Chinese artificial-intelligence chip firms, as part of sweeping updates to export controls that are designed to block China’s access to highly advanced semiconductor technology.
The tighter controls will target Nvidia’s A800 and H800 chips, a senior US official said, which the American firm created for export to the Asian country after the Biden administration introduced its initial restrictions last October. Those curbs, including the updated rules released Tuesday, aim to prevent China from accessing cutting-edge technology with military uses.
Military use has no value here, but AI use has.
The only non military area where US led block has advantage for now is big data and AI. And loosing this battle will mean.. the end.
Facebook was founded 2004, three years after POTN. Twitter was started 2006. Instagram was founded 2010. Snapchat 2011. Discord 2015, Tik Tok 2016. All those multi-billion dollar companies have conquered the market, created the social media as we know it, intentionally aiming to addict by algorithms, put people into own bubbles, track you to target ads, lose content validity in short time so that new content gets created constantly. Some of them reduce message lengths thus directing young people to short attention span and think less about complete sentences. Photos are shared via social media apps, Whatsapp and cloud services. This trend has sped up in last few years, and AI will change it all again. Soon people won't have to write or create anything - it's all done for them.
Sad truth is that there is no place for conventional forums any more with the recent generations. Traffic is down. Enthusiasm is down. Mood is down. Discussion is down.
There are many old timer members who keep posting, but that does not sustain the site. New members appear, but they do not post much, just browse and like here and there. That is the reality. When everyone had only computers (PC or Mac), writing was much faster and easier - now tapping seems to be the main communication method.
Google delivers fewer and fewer ads in forums (most ad slots are empty, meaning we don't have even a chance to get anything), so for a long time I've had to pay most of the server costs from my own pocket, even with some occasional donations which I appreciate.
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1530921
Thing is - they made wrong extrapolation
But problem is that social networks are not stable platforms, far from it.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
None of them have their users in mind other than to rip them and throw out.
Hence people need to have places where they don't have various shits calling them or trying to push corporate agendas.
You can get it here (it is former Google project) https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp-vst
Issue is that... it is interesting DIY project for student, but as camera... it is useless from the start
US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has expressed concern about Huawei's recent advances. Specifically, the release of the Kirin 9000s SoC.
Raimondo says the report that the Chinese firm has developed advanced chips is "incredibly troubling." She also notes that her agency needs more tools to enforce export controls.
We need different tools. We need additional enforcement resources. We are as tough as we need to be, but we need more resources
That said, Raimondo previously told the House of Representatives that she sees no evidence that China can produce advanced 7-nanometer chips on a large scale. Recall that recently there were reports that the Kirin 9000s are allegedly produced at 14nm, but with a number of improvements.
What is interesting, against the backdrop of these claims, the US Secretary of Commerce declined to comment on the progress of the Department's investigation into the very SoC Kirin 9000s.
Separately, Raimondo said she was proud of the recent fine her department imposed on Seagate for trading with Huawei without the necessary permits. As a reminder, US-based Seagate was fined $300 million, the largest fine ever imposed on an American company by the US Department of Commerce.
Republican lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to completely cut off Huawei Technologies Co. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. from their American suppliers after Huawei launched a new phone using highly advanced technology the US has been trying to keep out of China’s hands.
The phone, which uses a made-in-China 7-nanometer chip that appears to rely on US technology, has stoked debate in Washington over the effectiveness of US attempts to curtail China’s technological and military prowess.
Huawei and SMIC, the Chinese company that produced the chip, are both already subject to partial US sanctions — and are among the primary targets of an export control regime the Biden administration has imposed over the last year. The GOP lawmakers want to escalate restrictions on the companies to full sanctions.
“Due to the ubiquity of US origin technology throughout the semiconductor supply chain, these reports suggest a violation of US export control regulations,” the lawmakers wrote. “We are extremely troubled and perplexed about the Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) inability to effectively write and enforce export control rules against violators, especially China.”
The Commerce Department has stayed silent on whether SMIC is violating US sanctions as they investigate the new chip. The department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Huawei and SMIC are already blacklisted by the US, meaning that American suppliers and others need to obtain special trade licenses to ship to both firms. The companies also are among the targets of export controls announced last year that aim to block China’s semiconductor production from advancing beyond a 14-nanometer chip that’s about eight years behind the most cutting-edge technology.
The Biden administration has been weighing changes to its Huawei licensing policy for months, and has long been under pressure from Republican lawmakers to deny any new licenses to the firm. Now, lawmakers are seizing on the new Huawei phone as more evidence that the US needs to ratchet up its regime.
Specifically, the letter calls for complete blocking sanctions against SMIC and Huawei and a ban on US imports of SMIC-produced chips. The lawmakers also say Commerce should place SMIC, Huawei and all of their subsidiaries on a so-called entity list, subjecting them to trade restrictions, as well as revoke all existing licenses and deny new licenses, and pursue criminal charges against executives at both firms.
Looking little strange, isn't it?
The Council of the Russian Federation announced plans to block all VPN services in Russia
Roskomnadzor plans to issue an order, according to which from March 1, 2024 all VPN-services in Russia will be blocked. This was stated by a member of the Federation Council Artem Sheikin, his words reports RIA Novosti.
"From March 1, 2024 will come into force an order according to which VPN-services that provide access to sites banned in Russia will be blocked by Roskomnadzor in all markets," - said the senator. It is specified that we are talking about the application stores Google Play and AppStore.
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