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Cybersecurity
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Tech Industry
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China-aligned hackers deploy AI agents in massive ConnectWise supply chain attack — agents attempted sign-ins at more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, with some of the group's attacks reaching privileged access in under three hours
Automated password guessing failed, but stolen app credentials needed no user sign-in at all.
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The original Apple iPod debuted 25 years ago today — Steve Jobs’ $399 device fit 1,000 songs into a package the size of a deck of cards with 5 gigabytes of storage
The chunky little original iPod packed a 1.8-inch Toshiba HDD, and used FireWire because the USB of the era was too slow and didn't offer charging.
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Sony Japan marks last standalone 4K Blu-ray player as ‘Discontinued’ — PlayStation 5 now the only Blu-ray player left in Sony’s lineup
Would Sony’s plan to end physical disc production also mean that the future PlayStation 6 wouldn’t have a Blu-ray player?
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Leaked private keys for eight CA certificates let any attacker impersonate any domain — billions of older devices and software installations may be vulnerable after round of fixes, patch yours immediately
Stop everything and update your browsers, OSes, development tools, and routers.
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Semiconductors
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TSMC is seeking chipmaking equipment that doesn't contain Chinese rare-earth magnets — asks suppliers to provide alternative motors as export controls threaten fab operations
China accounts for 95% of finished permanent magnets
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Retro Atari VCS platform will end with the closure of its software store in February 2027 — OS update will be released removing reliance on Atari servers and opening up homebrew development
The modern VCS with its AMD APU-powered architecture only received a tepid response when it arrived in 2021.
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GPUs
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DRAM
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GPUs from Nvidia RTX 5090 stolen $470,000 shipment from Brazil airport appear for sale online, identified by serial numbers — three employees identified by police helped steal equipment
The haul is thought to be worth nearly half a million dollars.
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Retro Gaming
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PC Gaming
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Cybersecurity
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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EA is closing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, after more than 30 years — early development of the next Mass Effect game killed
EA says it is focusing on Battlefield, Iron Man and a Fight Night revival instead.
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Tech Industry
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OpenAI says ChatGPT Sol helped uncover critical PHP flaws that could affect 70% of websites — AI-assisted researchers turned a two-year-old bug that stumped human developers into working exploits in two weeks
OpenAI says defenders must proactively strengthen defenses before bad actors begin to exploit AI's extreme capabilities.
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17 Russian trawlers logged mapping undersea cables connecting the US and Europe — over 500 incidents of Russian vessels loitering over critical communications cables reported in under 5 years
The Russians are apparently scouting the exact locations of this critical infrastructure.
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480,000 phishing emails sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Japanese hotel room — Chinese couple arrested over fraud operation, scammers remotely leech Wi-Fi to target 2.4 million victims
Police arrested a Chinese couple for placing the computer that was found in a Kobe hotel and using stolen credit cards to make purchases.
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Google’s TPUs for AI workloads now run in Meta's data centers — TPUs sold to external customers for the first time, threaten Nvidia's market dominance
PyTorch’s own creator now serves AI models on Google’s TPUs, and most need no JAX port.
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CPUs
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Intel installs production tools at Fab 62 in Arizona, provides updates on Ohio chip fab — confirms High-NA EUV for High Volume Manufacturing in 2028
Intel's American semiconductor operations are a step or two ahead of the competition.
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Supercomputers
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Big Tech
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AMD brings official Ryzen overclocking to Linux with AOD driver support — no official app, but third-party options should arrive soon
This is a major milestone for improving the DIY tuning experience on Linux.
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Elon Musk says ASML and other critical semiconductor equipment suppliers will expedite shipments to Terafab — facility targets volume chip production by Q3-Q4, 2028, in 'highly aspirational' timeline
Musk's AI companies aim to achieve 13 GW of AI compute by the end of 2027, using massive 440,000-GPU Nvidia "Vera Rubin" training cluster
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DRAM
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Four workers killed after fall at TSMC’s 2nm fab construction site — accident marks at least nine construction deaths since 2024, broken bolt on a steel connection plate suspected as cause behind tragic accident (updated)
Four contract workers fell with steel parts during Phase 4 hoisting work, which is now halted.
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Data Centers
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Qualcomm to cut jobs globally in 'performance-based' layoffs — CEO says move will build 'stronger performance culture' as company pivots to AI data center and edge products
No details on the number of jobs that will be cut, but notifications will start going out in November
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AMD and Intel will work together to create a single PyTorch code path for AI inference on CPUs — x86 rivals fold AMD ZenDNN library into Intel oneDNN to make CPU AI simpler
AMD has also joined the UXL Foundation as a steering member.
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HPE says it will run the first supercomputer benchmarks on the Moon — GPU-powered fanless Spaceborne Computer-4 is slated to ride a rover to the lunar south pole to test AI and HPC benchmarks
NASA will test coordination of three AI models trained on Earth, ISS, and lunar data.
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Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading Chinese factories to produce advanced RAM chips as AI data center competition ramps up — big players move to fight off the threat from CXMT and co.
As Chinese rivals look to get in on the lucrative market, two chip giants are taking action to stay ahead of the game.
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Trump announces mandate forcing AI data centers to pay energy dividends to the local community — says excess energy should be given or sold back to prevent increases or even bring down costs
Excess electricity generated could also make its way to the local community.
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Linux
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Tech Industry
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Micron's Taiwan union will launch a one-day strike this week, threatening memory production — workers demand concrete terms for 2026 bonus and clearer profit-sharing arrangements
The strike will take place at the company's Taoyuan facility.
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Semiconductors
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AMD's FSR 4.1 now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and S, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 SoCs — new release brings cutting-edge tech to older hardware with a small performance cost
AMD gives older GPUs an image quality boost amid the ongoing AI chip drought
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US Army reportedly developing program that would deploy AI agents to autonomously seek and destroy targets in enemy digital infrastructures — experts warn ECHOTRIBBLE program could have disastrous consequences
Agents will self-destruct upon completing their mission
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Modal taps Nvidia Vera CPUs after firm's internal tests show 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips — AI agentic workflows said to favor Arm chips, but firm will keep x86 chips deployed in heterogeneous server fleet
Modal plans to use Nvidia's Vera CPUs due to performance advantages, but will keep AMD and Intel CPUs in the fleet.
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PC Gaming
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Windows 98 SE users get a Thunderbolt 4 driver, thanks to AI assistance — vibe-coded xHCI98 driver works in Microsoft OSes up to Windows 7
If you've ever wanted to run Windows 98 SE on your mid-2010s or newer PC with fast USB hub support, here's your chance.
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Intel asks FCC for waiver to buy foreign robots — chipmaker’s automated guided vehicles could run afoul of agency’s sweeping robot ban
These robots move chips between tools and sections of the fab.