Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’
A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.
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The Trump administration is going after semiconductor imports
The Trump administration wants the industry to reach a 1:1 ratio of domestically produced and imported chips.
Trump administration wants 10% stake in American lithium miner that sells to GM
Lithium Americas asked for a small change to the loan repayment period, which spurred the latest Trump administration request for equity.
Trump administration wants 10% stake in Canadian lithium miner that sells to GM
Lithium Americas asked for a small change to the loan repayment period, which spurred the latest Trump administration request for equity.
China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida
After strongly discouraging tech companies from buying Nivdia’s AI chips in August, the country is now banning the practice outright.
China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations
China is investigating Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies as trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up.
Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel
The U.S. government’s recent stake in Intel comes after a long period of floundering at the company’s foundry business.
Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs
Intel doesn’t need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.
DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower
The Social Security Administration’s chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise.
Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows
There have been more border device searches than ever before, per new data, despite the constitutionality of whether these searches are legal.