Micron pledges $40b for US fabs as financial headwinds mount (2022/08/10) The memory biz is bracing for a recession-fueled drop in demand
Patch Tuesday: Yet another Microsoft RCE bug under active exploit (2022/08/09) Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too
US car industry leads the world in production cuts over chip shortages (2022/08/09) Car crunch bites, but relief looks likely
Wave of corruption claims crash into China's chip Big Fund (2022/08/09) On the same day the United States kickstarts one of its own
President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law (2022/08/09) American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby!
Alibaba mimics Amazon by slashing jobs after poor results (2022/08/09) Covid lockdowns, Chinese regulations and SEC threats make Alibaba's job numbers worrying
Northrop Grumman to use Firefly Aerospace tech in its de-Russianized Antares (2022/08/09) SpaceX to pick up the slack while the rocket is updated yet again
APIC fail: Intel 'Sunny Cove' chips with SGX spill secrets (2022/08/09) AMD Zen chips, meanwhile, are vulnerable to side-channel data scrying
Midwest universities unite to support US chip industry revival (2022/08/09) Alliance will hopefully give students path to job as well as backing Intel's Ohio fab plans
Tesla Full Self-Driving fails to notice child-sized objects in testing (2022/08/09) Campaign group Dawn Project results calculated from small sample size, test done without hands on the wheel
Malicious deepfakes used in attacks up 13% from last year, VMware finds (2022/08/09) Plus: Crooks swimming around your network, looking for a way in, says Incident Response Threat Report
US Space Force deploys robot dogs at Cape Canaveral base (2022/08/09) Patrolling quadrupeds not fitted with 7.62mm tank machine guns – yet
Lenovo updates ThinkPad mobile workstations with AMD variants (2022/08/09) SIGGRAPH 2022: Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 only desktop workstation powered by AMD's Ryzen Threadripper
Microsoft's fix for 'data damage' risk hits PC performance (2022/08/09) 'AES-based operations might be two times slower' without latest updates
Quantum systems maker D-Wave takes the SPAC route (2022/08/09) Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out
Barclays inks multi-year deal with Microsoft, starts rolling out Teams (2022/08/09) Deployment plan includes unified data governance platform Purview
Parallels increases prices with Desktop version 18 (2022/08/09) Running Windows apps on your M1 Mac just got a bit more expensive
Beijing blitz of crypto promotions and marketing underway (2022/08/09) Cyberspace Administration of China closes accounts and removes to 'rectify the chaos'
BT demos 4-carrier 5G aggregation – on a live network (2022/08/09) Telco promises uplift in capacity and speed once deployed
Report slams UK plan to become 'science superpower' by 2030 (2022/08/09) Lords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding as top issues