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Intel CEO says he can 'think of no better partner than Elon Musk' to explore 'unconventional' ways to improve chip manufacturing — TeraFab partnership aims to rethink how chips are made to reduce costs

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan commented on the company's partnership with Elon Musk's TeraFab project, but details about the relationship are still light.

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First Intel Wildcat Lake laptop spotted in the wild, geared to compete with MacBook Neo — features an aluminum chassis with 11W fanless mode

Intel's Wildcat Lake family was launched recently, but no devices featuring the CPUs have actually shown up yet. Analyst Vaidyanathan S shared pictures of a real laptop running the new 'Core Series 3' silicon, but it's just an Intel reference machine. It also shows that Wildcat Lake has a 17W…

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Intel shutters open-source evangelism program and archives key community projects — closures point to significant shift in open-source leadership

The latest round of GitHub closures underscores a broader pullback in Intel's open-source footprint amid ongoing restructuring.

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Crypto scam takes advantage of Strait of Hormuz crisis by taking fake payments, leading to two ships being fired upon — two vessels reportedly fell victim and paid fake 'Iranian authorities'

Two vessels waiting to transit the Strait of Hormuz reportedly fell victim to scammers posing as Iranian authorities and asking for transit fee payments in crypto.

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Anthropic surpasses biggest rival OpenAI in secondary market valuation — surges to $1 trillion amid frantic investor interest

Anthropic’s secondary market valuation has reportedly surged to $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI’s $880 billion, driven by intense investor demand for AI exposure, and highlighting speculative pricing in secondary markets.

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SpaceX says it is going to begin manufacturing GPUs — $1.75 trillion IPO listing reportedly includes in-house GPU production

Elon Musk's SpaceX set to produce 'own GPUs' at its own multi-billion fab as the company warns that it may be unable to purchase all the silicon it needs to meet its goals.

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UK spy agency releases malware-blocking gadget for HDMI and DisplayPort cables — SilentGlass blocks malicious traffic traveling between display and computer

The NCSC, a part of the British GCHQ, has deployed this protective gadget throughout various government estates and is now making it publicly available through Goldilock Labs.

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You can now run Linux on your ancient Windows 95 desktop with a new tool — very old Windows PCs, back to Intel 486, can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels with WSL9x

WSL9x enables users to run the most modern Linux kernels in Microsoft OSes as old as Windows 95.

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More than 30,000 Samsung union members take to the streets to demand an average bonus of $400,000 per worker — May 21 strike date looms, union points to rival SK hynix granting higher bonuses to its employees

Workers at Samsung's largest chip fab staged a rally today, demanding higher pay and bonuses, comparing their compensation to what SK hynix offers its people.

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U.S. Commerce Secretary says Nvidia still hasn't sold any H200 AI GPUs to China — Chinese government is blocking imports in an attempt to push domestic semiconductor industry

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia still hasn't sold a single H200 AI GPU to China, despite the ban being lifted four months ago. The Chinese government is making it difficult for Chinese companies to import Nvidia chips in a bid to support the country's own domestic semiconductor industry.

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Bolt Graphics tapes out its first Zeus GPU test chip on TSMC 12nm — firm touts 17x lower cost of compute

Bolt Graphics has announced its completed tape-out of a test chip for its Zeus GPU, marking the startup's first move from FPGA emulation to manufactured silicon.

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AI agent designs a complete RISC-V CPU from a 219-word spec sheet in just 12 hours — comparably simple design required 'many tens of billions of tokens'

AI chip design startup Verkor.io claims that its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously produced a complete RISC-V CPU core.

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Elon Musk says his TeraFab facilities will use Intel's 14A process technology to make AI chips — SpaceX will be responsible for high-volume chip manufacturing in likely Intel tech licensing deal

Elon Musk reveals details about TeraFab: Intel provides technology, Tesla builds pilot line, SpaceX constructs high-volume fab.

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TSMC unveils process technology roadmap through 2029 — A12, A13, N2U announced, A16 slips to 2027

TSMC strengthens its bifurcated process technology development approach with A14, A13, and N2U aimed at client applications and A16, A12, and N2X for high-performance data center designs.

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Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000+ bill despite $7 budget, thanks to forgotten API key in published project — attacker put in 60,000+ requests and blasted through $1,400 spending cap

Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their initial budget after an unknown API key registered more than 60,000 requests while they were asleep.

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Samsung engineer sentenced to 7 years in prison for selling chipmaking trade secrets to Chinese chipmaker — ex-employee supplied 10nm DRAM data to CXMT for $2 million

An ex-Samsung employee accused of corporate espionage has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for sharing over 600 critical chipmaking steps.

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Linux may be ending support for older network drivers due to influx of false AI-generated bug reports — maintenance has become too burdensome for old largely-unused systems

Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal to remove obsolete ISA and PCMCIA-era Ethernet drivers from the mainline kernel, citing rising maintenance burden from AI-driven bug reports and fuzzing. The change would cut around 27,000 lines of legacy code

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Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — more L3 cache and dual 3D V-cache-stacked CCDs

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is AMD's latest CPU release. Here's where you can pick one up.

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Microsoft facing $2.8 billion UK lawsuit for overcharging 60,000 businesses using Microsoft Server on other clouds — Azure users allegedly received lower wholesale pricing

A lawsuit alleging the company is overcharging Windows Server for non-Azure users has been certified to proceed to trial, although Microsoft is still appealing the decision. The lawyer handling the case alleges that the claim affects almost 60,000 businesses and is worth about $2.8 billion.

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Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty after leaking victims' insurance details to 'BlackCat' hackers — perp gave attackers a precise picture of exactly how much each target could afford to pay

Martino, of Land O’Lakes, Florida, is the third and final member of a trio of cybersecurity professionals charged in the scheme.

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Anthropic's Model Context Protocol includes a critical remote code execution vulnerability — newly discovered exploit puts 200,000 AI servers at risk

Researchers at OX Security have exposed an architectural vulnerability in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that allows for remote code execution on affected systems.

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Valve VRAM hack may improve gaming on 4GB GPUs — testing showed mixed results in select titles, with FPS almost tripling in certain games

Valve’s VRAM hack can boost performance on 4GB GPUs, with testing showing FPS gains of up to 3x in some titles, though results vary widely depending on the game and settings.

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AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works — driver-level tweak will let gamers upgrade existing titles to FSR4 ML-based frame generation

AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works

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Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes — says devices from Cisco and others failed despite blackout in attack that 'indicates deep sabotage'

Iranian state media has alleged that equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik failed during U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.

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Enthusiast builds his own RAM in garden shed cleanroom — fledgling array of memory cells groundwork for much larger future project

This is the ‘first time ever RAM has been made at home’ boasts a garden shed-based semiconductor maker.

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