Daily Tech News 5 December 2023

• US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has called out Nvidia for selling advanced AI chips to China in compliance with her own regulations. (Fortune)
  
  The Department of Commerce blocked sales of Nvidia's most powerful graphics cards to China, so Nvidia sent less powerful cards that complied with the regulations.
  
  The department blocked those sales, so Nvidia sold even less powerful cards... That were assembled in China in the first place.

  "It matters not if you obey the rules I have set forth. If you endeavour to design a chip around a particular line that enables the forces of evil to explore AI, I shall move to control it the very next day," Raimondo said. "And now at last it comes. You will give me the chips freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"

• Hacked so hard your ancestors will need identity insurance: Hackers were able to access 14,000 23 and Me accounts, probably by finding individual reused passwords from a prior data breach elsewhere. (Tech Crunch)
  
  From there they were able to access ancestry information of 6.9 million additional accounts.
  
  The breach of 14,000 accounts was announced back in October, along with indications that it affected far, far more people than that. Now we know how many more.
  
  
  
• You get a free LaserJet! And you get a free LaserJet! Everyone gets free LaserJets! (XDA Developers)
  
  Have a printer attached to a Windows 10 or 11 system? Don't look now, but it may have metamorphosed into an HP LaserJet M101-106 overnight.
  
  
  
• After seven years of legal wrangling, almost 100,000 Google employees are now getting an extra $20. (SF Gate)
  
  Not $20 an hour, which would be fairly generous. Not $20 per week, or per month.
  
  $20.
  
  From the settlement, the lawyers take one third; the state of California takes three quarters of what's left. That doesn't leave a lot, and it's being divided 100,000 ways.
  
  
  
• Kioxia's (Toshiba's SSD division) new PCIe 5 server SSD hits 14GB per second. (Serve the Home)
  
  And you can fit dozens of them in a single server.
  
  
  
• Exposed developer tokens in Hugging Face allowed write access to Llama 2 and other LLMs. (The Register)
  
  Access tokens want to be free.
  
  
  

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