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Semiconductor tariffs are back in focus, with a new analysis warning they could cost the United States economy ninety billion dollars a year and eliminate more than two hundred forty three thousand jobs. The findings land as policymakers weigh whether data centers should receive exemptions in a second phase of trade restrictions, a decision that could reshape domestic chip supply chains for years.
Shifting to hardware, Meta has pulled back the curtain on its MTIA three hundred, the company's first in-house silicon accelerator built specifically to handle the training of ranking and recommendation models. It marks a meaningful expansion of Meta's custom chip ambitions, moving the company further from dependence on third-party suppliers and deeper into the kind of vertical integration that defines the modern AI infrastructure race.
And in a story that deserves more attention than it's getting, AliExpress has been found using silent audio streams to fingerprint user devices through the Web Audio API, essentially exploiting subtle hardware differences in how your device processes sound to identify you without a single cookie. Privacy-focused browsers are building countermeasures, but the technique exposes a genuine gap in how web standards currently handle audio context and user consent.
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