A leading mobile device insurance and service network has initiated insolvency proceedings in the wake of a cyberattack. Selling properties and cutting staff numbers wasn't enough to save the business.

Three senior Intel Foundry executives are retiring as part of a major leadership reshuffle amid restructuring and uncertainty over the 14A process.

Lagging behind leading tech firms in artificial intelligence, Apple is ramping up internal efforts and actively pursuing acquisitions to accelerate its AI development, but at the same time keeping CapEx modest compared to peers like Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

SK hynix has overtaken Samsung as the world’s top memory maker in Q2 2025, driven by surging HBM demand from AI accelerators. With over 60% HBM market share and record profits, Hynix signals a shift from commodity DRAM to advanced, AI-optimized memory leadership.

Microsoft reached a $4 trillion valuation on strong fiscal 2025 results, surging cloud and AI growth, deep ties with OpenAI, its own AI development, and rising demand ahead of Windows 10's end-of-support.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 and an Intel laptop for kernel development, as revealed through a bug report involving DSC on his ASUS 5K monitor. His deliberate use of modest, open-friendly hardware subtly pushes back against AI hype and proprietary bloat.

Researchers at Wharton and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have a working paper detailing the ways automated tools that rely on reinforcement learning can end up colluding with each other.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines his vision for “personal superintelligence” just ahead of the company’s Q2 earnings. With billions poured into AI hires and hardware partnerships, Meta's new direction hints at a future shaped by open-source models and personalized AI infrastructure.

U.S. intelligence reportedly pushed the DOJ to approve HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition, viewing it as a strategic move against Huawei. Despite internal DOJ tension, the merger seeks to strengthen US networking capabilities amid rising tech competition with China.

NVIDIA’s N1X SoC has surfaced in FurMark, revealing RTX 2060-tier performance despite packing 6,144 CUDA cores—more than an RTX 5070. Running under Windows 11 with new 590.22 drivers, the chip appears to be in validation.

Plans are afoot to create a massive new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with power demands many multiples of the state's population.

A new U.S.–EU trade deal exempts semiconductor equipment from tariffs, avoiding steep cost hikes for American chipmakers and protecting the competitiveness of U.S. fabs.

Enfabrica is piloting its Emfasys Ethernet-connected DDR5 memory pool that adds up to 18TB of CXL-attached memory to any AI server to ease memory bottlenecks in large-scale inference workloads.

The FBI in Dallas, Texas, has seized 20 Bitcoins from a member of the Chaos Ransomware gang, amounting to almost $2.4 million in value.

The European Union is launching a $30 billion initiative to build a network of gigawatt-class AI data centers across 16 member states in a bid to catch up with the U.S. and China, though concerns remain over power supply, unclear specifications, and long-term business viability.

A Redditor has demonstrated the ability of the recently launched ChatGPT agent to casually swat away a captcha, so that it can complete its assigned task(s).

Ukraine's intelligence agency conducted a sustained distributed-denial of service attack on Russian forces in Crimea while independent hacking groups targeted the airline.

Researchers have discovered a new method of designing semi-conductors by modeling the electrical resistance inside a chip using quantum computing pattern recognition, and then machine learning to analyze the output data.

Cadence admits to selling EDA tools to sanctioned entities from 2015 to 2020.

Chinese AI hardware and software developers form alliances to develop AI standards to compete against American AI technologies and deploy AI across a broad set of applications.

Cloudflare is testing Positron AI's Atlas machine based on Archer accelerators, an inference-only solution that claims to outperform Nvidia's H200 DGX using one-third the power.

Samsung has secured a $16.5 billion deal to produce Tesla's future AI6 self-driving SoC at its Texas fab, a major strategic win for Samsung Foundry.

IT provider sued after it simply 'handed the credentials' to hackers — Clorox claims Cognizant gaffe enabled a $380m ransomware attack

Intel will spin off its Network and Edge Group (NEX) into a standalone company, seeking external investors while keeping a minority stake. The move follows Intel’s $2.9B quarterly loss, a 15% workforce cut, and warnings that its 14A node could be canceled without a major external partner.

Prodaft said the Steam Early Access game contains the Fickle Stealer, Vidar Stealer, and HijackLoader malware.

Raja Koduri continues to push his high bandwidth vision for computing but this time it's flash, namely HBF

Intel admits that it may halt or cancel development of its 14A (1.4nm-class) process node — its first to use High-NA EUV — if it fails to secure a major external customer or meet key milestones, which would likely mean its exit from the leading-edge semiconductor race.

Data suggest that more than a billion dollars' worth of banned Nvidia chips have been sold in the second quarter of 2025 alone.

Microsoft said that critical vulnerabilities in SharePoint are being exploited by a potentially China-linked threat actor, Storm-2603, to deploy ransomware.

Intel has laid off 12,000 positions all over the globe, Microsoft has cut 10,000 workers, and Meta has reduced its workforce by 8,000 people.

AMD expects to receive TSMC-made chips by late 2025.

President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before.

A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device.

This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy.

Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute — equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs — within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of power.

The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments.

A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs.

An FCC proposal seeks to undo the Biden administration's efforts to encourage increased availability of gigabit download speeds.

OpenAI and Oracle plan to add 4.5 GW of U.S. data center power for the Stargate project, boosting total capacity past 5 GW to support millions of AI processors.

The 158-year established Knights of Old transportation company has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack, with 700 jobs lost.