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Samsung Foundry Flips From Order-Chaser to Order-Picker — 4nm Sold Out Through 2027, Backlog Hits 50 Trillion Won
Samsung Foundry activates an allocation regime — 4nm sold out through 2027, some 8nm lines near full load, backlog around 50 trillion won ($35B); Meta's 10-trillion-won MTIA order at 2nm and Anthropic evaluations on the table.
Three US Private Microreactors Go Critical in One Month — 150 Days From Kickoff, Beating Trump's July 4 Deadline
Three US private startups pushed advanced microreactors to criticality in a single June, meeting Trump's July 4, 2026 deadline; Deployable Energy went from kickoff to criticality in 150 days.
Storage Spot Market Splits in Two — Enterprise SSDs +18.64%/wk While Channel SSDs and DDR4 Fall 5–8%
CFM's July 3, 2026 weekly report splits the spot market in two: enterprise SSDs up as much as 18.64% and LPDDR5X up 4–8.5% while channel SSDs and DDR4 fall 3.8–8.5% in the same table.
White House Deletes ~6,000 Energy-Saving Pages Mid-Heatwave — NYC Mayor's 78°F AC Plea Called "Socialism"
As a heat dome batters the US East, the DOE quietly pulls about 6,000 energy-conservation pages; NYC mayor Mamdani's 78°F thermostat plea drew "socialism" attacks — same guidance the DOE itself had published for years.
F-Droid Calls Google's ADV Malware — Pre-Installed on 4 Billion Android Devices, Activation Set for September 30
F-Droid labels Google's Android Developer Verification a piece of malware pre-installed on about 4 billion Android devices, set to activate September 30 in four pilot countries.
Linux Kernel Tops 2026 CVE Charts — 2,308 Bugs, and Maintainer Greg KH Says That's Good News
Linux kernel tops H1 2026 CVE charts with 2,308 disclosures ahead of Google's 1,752; maintainer Greg KH says the number is a transparency signal, not a security one.
Molly Tea Hit With 10.3M Yuan LV Judgment — Store Orders Double, Brand Rushes to Hire IP Counsel
Suzhou court orders Molly Tea to pay Louis Vuitton 10.3M yuan for trademark infringement; store orders double, brand hires IP counsel.
SEMI pushes back on White House: memory-chip price and capacity intervention will make the shortage worse
SEMI wrote to four Trump cabinet secretaries on July 1 opposing price and capacity intervention in memory chips — as nine downstream trade groups push in the opposite direction.
Six months idle, account frozen: China's CAC reopens Internet Services rules for comment
China's CAC republished the Internet Information Services rules for comment on July 3, letting platforms freeze or delete accounts dormant for over six months.
OPPO retires OxygenOS and realme UI, moves all three brands to a single global ColorOS
OPPO folds OnePlus and realme into a single global ColorOS stack, retiring OxygenOS and realme UI branding.
Alibaba orders company-wide Claude uninstall by July 10
Alibaba told all staff to uninstall Claude Sonnet/Opus/Fable and Claude Code by July 10, after Anthropic accused it of running 28.8M distillation exchanges through 24,800 fake accounts.
OpenAI offers Washington a 5% stake — asks Google, Meta and Anthropic to match
OpenAI floated a 5% equity donation to the US government — about $42.6B on its $852B valuation — and urged Google, Meta and Anthropic to match. Anthropic is not at the table.
Five years later, Vercel finally lets a Dockerfile in — Rails, Spring, FastAPI to Fluid compute in one push
Vercel launched Dockerfile.vercel on June 30 — Rails, Spring Boot, FastAPI and any HTTP server ship to Fluid compute on every git push, billed on active CPU only.
Visa / Mastercard-led consortium of 140+ launches Open USD — reserve yield goes to the network, not the issuer
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, Google and 140+ companies launched the Open Standard consortium on June 30 to issue Open USD later this year — reserve yield goes to network distributors, not to the issuer.
Meta's $182.9B AI stack has slack — «Meta Compute» is coming for AWS / Azure / GCP
Bloomberg reported on July 1 that Meta is forming «Meta Compute» to sell excess AI training capacity to outside customers, taking direct aim at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.