• ASML has cancelled DUV shipments to China following pressure from the US.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Although the DUV scanners being sold are limited to the 14nm node, by use of multi-patterning they can produce (slowly and at significant cost) chips more-or-less equivalent to 7nm.  Which is itself two generations behind the leading edge of mass production in the US, Taiwan, and South Korea.
  
  But the US government still isn't happy and wants to put a stop to that, which will of course force China to develop its own semiconductor tools industry, at which point the US will have no leverage at all.
  
  
  

Tech News

• AI is bad.  Fortunately, it doesn't need to be good to replace journalists.  (The New Republic)
  
  That's not the point the author intended to make.  It is, however, the point he did make in this barely coherent blancmange of an article.
  
  
  
• The good thing about 2TB M.2 2230 drives is that they exist.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The bad thing is everything else.
  
  If you have a device that only takes drives in this postage-stamp size - a Steam Deck, for example, or a Microsoft Surface Pro - you can now get 2TB of storage.
  
  If you can fit a larger drive, though, do so.  You'll get better performance and save as much as 50%.