Daily Tech News 19 April 2025

• TSMC is planning to produce 30% of its 2nm and newer chips in its US fabs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Currently US production is only at 4nm, with 3nm only active in Taiwan and 2nm still ramping up. The new plans will boost output at the company's Fab21 site in Arizona and bring to it the newer N3, N2, and the 1.6nm A16 lines.
  
  N3 equipment is being installed right now, and construction of new buildings for N2 and A16 is set to begin next year.

• If you're looking forward to the next-generation Nova Lake chips from Intel with their rumoured extraordinary core counts, now is not the time to buy a motherboard. (WCCFTech)
  
  Because they're changing sockets again. Arrow Lake will be the only chip running on the current Socket 1851, with new boards with Socket 1954 arriving next year.
  
  Because Intel.
  
  
  
• The hashing algorithms in Python have been replaced with a library that has been verified. (Jonathan Protzenko)
  
  That is, not merely tested, but mathematically proven to be correct.
  
  And hopefully tested as well.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's latest generation of stochastic garbage generators generate more stochastic garbage than before and the company doesn't know why. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not only will they make up answers that are completely wrong, when asked how they came up with those answers, they will make that up as well.
  
  
  
• A federal judge has ruled that dumping the entire database from a cell tower in order to find a single individual is an unconstitutional search under the Fourth Amendment. (404 Media)
  
  Well, yes.
  
  
  
• Those damn railroads are putting stage coaches out of work. (The Register)
  
  Why, back in my day, we walked from London to New York and back again, and you didn't catch us complaining about it.
  
  
  
• Blue Origin's all-girl space stunt is Elon Musk's fault. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Elon Musk has nothing to do with it, has saved the day when things went south, and generally speaking has done nothing wrong at all, but Elizabeth Lopatto has to rant.
  
  
  
• The Gorilla God's Go-to Girl is retro romance anime gold. (Notebook Check)
  
  What?
  
  I mean, the anime is okay, nothing amazing, but it's also remarkably free of computer hardware.
  
  
  
• So, amid all the to-ing and fro-ing, a certain Speaker of Space collabed with a certain Warden of Time today. I was thinking, that sounds exactly like, and it sounded exactly like because it was.
  
  (If you don't follow vtubers, you probably just said Wait, what? If you do follow vtubers, you probably just said, Wait, what?!)
  
  Things go on.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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