Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers

Samsung has been granted an injunction to limit the scope of planned strike action ahead of an 18-day walkout due to start on Thursday.
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Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance ‘creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford’

Internal Samsung wage negotiation transcripts show the company proposed bonuses of 607% of annual salary for its memory chip division in March.
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ASML to equip India’s first commercial chip fab — $11 billion Dholera project targets 50,000 wafers a month

ASML and Tata Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy ASML’s equipment at India’s first fab.
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LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

One LinkedIn user has fought back against recruiter spam in a very unusual way.

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Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air

Russia’s Mikron is earning a bit of cash on the side by selling picture-framed test wafers as souvenirs with 12 designs to choose from, priced around $170.
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Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester’s invention evolved from MIT’s Project Whirlwind.

US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals

The U.S. FTC is looking into Arm Holdings to see if it’s abusing its market position as a dominant chip designer to gives its new chip manufacturing business an advantage over competitors who build semiconductors based on …

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops ‘LineShine’ supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores

China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen takes a page from Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer and Fujitsu’s A64FX processor, build LineShine supercomputer based entirely on Armv9-based LineShine LX2 CPUs.
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OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents

The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, all generated by roughly 100 Codex instances.

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Taiwan declares itself ‘sovereign and independent’ after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence

The statement came hours after President Donald Trump told Fox News he opposes Taiwan pursuing formal independence.